Embed video on Facebook Graph and wall posts
The Facebook Open Graph protocol is a simple and great way to add meta data to your existing webpages. It basically turns your external pages into a Facebook page! It's important to display the rightā¦
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Using Facebook's Graph API to optimize your Likes
The Facebook Open Graph protocol is not just a great way to access data remotely on Facebook, but also a really easy way to add meta data to your existing webpages. By adding additional informationā¦
Base64 encoding and embedding images in CSS
One problem I always have with mobile development is making images load faster. Having lots of images can make the page extremely slow, and with the iphone 4 using double rez images, its even slower.ā¦
Facebook's fql.multiquery for faster load times
While building my new blog's comment system I decided to just be lazy and use some other api. For this I decided to use the facebook API. I had previously built a comment system using a modified PHPā¦
Bulding an archive of images dynamicly
Recently I had a need to gather a group of images, add a watermark, and zip them up so a user could download them. Instead of create all of these zip files each time anything is changed, I insteadā¦
Tracking finished downloads in PHP
Tracking downloads is wonderful, but when you have large downloads like movies, people often cancel them before they finish. In order to track completed downloads properly, we have to run theā¦
osFileManager on Github
osFileManager is a PHP Filemanager origionaly written in 2003, and with little improvements since. Includes User CP, Admin CP, and many basic file creation/modifying tools. Alows user defined themesā¦
Custom photo gallery with phpFlickr
phpFlickr is a PHP library for use with flickr's powerful API. Recently I had a need for a very simple photo gallery with a minimal budget, so we decided to go with hosting all the images on flickrā¦
Safari Developer Tools
Developing in safari has always been somewhat of a pain. But the developer menu makes things a little easier. Close Safari Open Terminal Enter the following into Terminal and press enter defaultsā¦
QuickControl: a Mootools Quicktime controller
QuickControl was made to replace flash for quicktime video playback on webpages. The QuickControl library requires the Class, Options, Events, and Slider libraries from Mootools. Creating a newā¦
Working with CSS Sprites & PHP
A CSS sprite is a single image that contains many images images that you want to display on the page. By using the background position properties of an element we can select a specific image from aā¦
PHP PayPal Mobile Checkout Library
This PHP library is a basic implementation for the paypal mobile checkout NVP interface. For simplicities sake I am going to create a single controller for the checkout that will check to see if weā¦