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Category: Social

  • Bebo Development Scares Me

    Today at work, we’ve begun looking into creating some Bebo applications.  I know it’s a bit behind in the times, but we’ve been busy with Facebook, iPhone, and Google Gadgets.  It’s now time to sink our teeth into Bebo.

    I spent about 30 minutes setting up Bebo and reviewing a simple three step process to setup external authentication and it didn’t work!  Not only that, when I went to download the API I had to actually right-click and choose “Save As” because it just loaded the whole API as text in my browser.  Talk about a shotty setup.

    The API download problems aside, let me tell you more about my authentication problem.  The three step example I followed is from this URL here: http://www.bebo.com/docs/auth (more…)

  • Facebook Development and $_SERVER[‘HTTP_REFERER’]

    If you are new to creating Facebook applications or even if you’re not.  When you go to use $_SERVER[‘HTTP_REFERER’] you might be in for a surprise when this _SERVER variable does not exist!

    Just recently I encountered this problem, when I thought about it for a few seconds it made sense why the variable wasn’t there.  Your server cannot properly track the history because every page request in your Facebook application occurs through a request from a Facebook server, not the user them self. (more…)