End Your If

I don’t know about you, but there are many times during a work week where someone ticks me off.  It could be something small or something major.

I’ve always wondered what I could do about this, so I finally did something.

I created a Facebook application called Head Slap!  It let’s you type in your friend’s name on Facebook and give them a slap on the head.  Enter a personalized message letting them know why they deserve it!

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 »

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 »

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 »