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Category: Social

  • Follow me on Twitter

    I’m sure it’s been a long time coming, but I’ve set myself up a Twitter account and you can follow my latest blogs on there.  Check it out here:

    http://twitter.com/endyourif

  • Facebook Development – Quick and Easy Dialogs

    At my work, whenever we have a link to delete records, we always have a simple Javascript confirm dialog pop-up.  The confirm dialog just does the standard, “Are you sure you wish to delete this record?” with an OK and Cancel button.  If the user clicks cancel, the record is not deleted, if they click OK, the record will be deleted.

    If you’ve done some Facebook development, you will notice quickly that the alert() and confirm() functions do not work.  I’ve found this slightly annoying, so I’ve written a very simple Javascript function that let’s me use the nifty dialogs that Facebook provides us. (more…)

  • Photobucket, Photos, and You

    It seems like photo sharing and social network applications are the in thing right now. Let’s take advantage of this. Today I will provide a simple class that will allow you to post photos to a user’s Photobucket account in minutes.

    Step 1: Visit http://photobucket.com/developer/register to register for an API key

    Follow the steps to create a new application on Photobucket. When you have finished, Photobucket will send you an email with your API and Secret key. Keep this email for later use.

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  • Facebook, Photos, and You!

    The Facebook Application API is quite extensive and allows you to get and set many different aspects of a user’s Facebook information.

    Today, we are going to discuss using the Facebook API to create an album, if it doesn’t already exist, and add a photo to that album. (more…)

  • Creating your first iGoogle Gadget

    Recently at work, we’ve started diving into Google Gadgets.  They are quite fun and really extremely easy to build.  In this article, I’m going to get you started creating your very own Google Gadget.

    Sit back and reserve a few minutes of your time and you will be well on your way in no time! (more…)