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Facebook, your Business Account policy is stupid

January 14, 2010 Technology Blog

Facebook allows users to create “Business Accounts”. Having read the applicable terms, why any sane person would want to do this beats me.

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Sustain-a-What?!?! Facebook Application

April 25, 2008 Portfolio

The Sustain-a-what?!?! application is a quiz intended to amuse while making the user think about the issues surrounding the hot topic of sustainability. The quiz runs on the Drupal platform so the client can maintain its content for themselves. I wrote a custom module to manage the quiz questions and answers, as well as storing [...]

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The Daily Goss Facebook Application

March 24, 2008 Portfolio

The Daily Goss is an online celebrity gossip magazine. They asked me to create a Facebook application that would display the latest headlines from their RSS feed. The application consists of a canvas page and profile entry that are essentially identical. The headlines are got from the RSS feed, while the thumbnail images are fetched [...]

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Drupal and Facebook are now friends

November 24, 2007 Technology Blog

I’m working on a new Facebook application for a client and being a lazy programmer I wanted to do as little work as possible while producing a good result. I’d started building the app with the Zend Framework but while it is many ways an excellent library it is as yet only a starting point. [...]

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Facebook: The Schema

August 10, 2007 Portfolio

This simple Facebook application was written for musician and journalist Rhodri Marsden to publicise his DIY music project “The Schema“. It plays a tune! To be more specific, it plays The Schema’s single: Those Rules You Made, available to purchase from all good online outlets from August 20th 2007. “When I needed to create a [...]

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Facebook: Imaginary Friends

August 10, 2007 Portfolio

Imaginary Friends is a Facebook application I wrote to explore the possibilities of the API and to act as an advertisement and demonstration of my services. It’s quite silly, frankly: it allows you to make friends with, and chat to, some software pretending to be a person under one of a large number of different [...]

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Facebook and the Imaginary Friends

August 3, 2007 Technology Blog

Everybody’s talking about Facebook, it seems. One of the most interesting aspects of it for me as a developer is the existence of its API, which makes it possible to create new networking applications, or to integrate existing applications with the Facebook platform.

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