Tag Archives: Facebook

Random Funny Technology Videos

Posted by Jamie on January 27, 2011 1,839 comments
I was surfing the Interweb recently and came across some cool/funny videos that I thought I would share:

Amazing iPod Trick

http://www.break.com/index/amazing-ipod-trick-1984104
This video turns a black iPod into a white iPod.  I’m not sure if I would personally want to try this, but it sure looks cool afterwords.

Roombas Hack to Play Pac-Man

http://www.ohgizmo.com/2011/01/11/roombas-playing-pac-man/
Excellent use of a vacuum and great way to promote it’s cleaning skills by “finding” dirt.

Image Translating iPhone App

http://www.techi.com/2010/12/image-translating-iphone-app/
This is one of the coolest apps ever.  Show a road sign or some picture with words and watch it translate the text in the image for you right on your iPhone!

Facebok Profile Picture Hack Tutorial

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhvJqGgzmoQ
The new profile displays pictures from your last album on the top of your profile, watch this video to make it a sequence of photos splitting your features across multiple images.
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Maintaining a session in a session-less environment

Posted by Jamie on January 17, 2011 1,401 comments

Confused?  I know I was at first, but let me explain.  First, why would there be a session-less environment?  I thought this was a HUGE plus to server-side development languages over basic HTML that is session-less?  Well, you would be right in that sense; however, as I mentioned in a recent blog that I’ve switched careers and I am currently doing server-side game development for large Facebook Virtual Worlds.  The client/server relationship in these games are completely session-less.  Each time the client performs an action, the server doesn’t “know” who they are because it’s not a consistent relationship like a browser and a web server.

Don’t worry, there is a simple solution to this problem, let’s explore it now. Read more »

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Someone at work tick you off?

Posted by Jamie on July 28, 2009 2,038 comments

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!

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Facebook Development – Quick and Easy Dialogs

Posted by Jamie on June 10, 2009 2,474 comments

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. Read more »

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Facebook Development and $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']

Posted by Jamie on February 15, 2009 1,603 comments

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. Read more »

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