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Omniauth, Devise and Facebook Client Login Don’t Play Nice

Posted on February 27, 2014November 1, 2021

I’ve had to use Facebook login inside an iframe twice now. Combine Devise with omniauth and omniauth-facebook and you have a pretty great user authentication system. Now try to login via Facebook inside an iframe and nothing will happen. If you check your Javascript console you’ll see a error that looks something like this: Refused…

Social Network Dilution

Posted on October 27, 2009November 1, 2021

My wife thinks it’s funny that I never check Facebook anymore. I got her into it and now she checks it daily. I got my account way back when you still had to have a .edu email address to get an account. It was worthless for a while because no one else I knew had…

Make Facebook Butt Out

Posted on April 2, 2008October 25, 2021

Marion told me that he rented ‘Enchanted’ for his kids from Blockbuster.com. Now in all his friend’s feeds it says ‘Marion rented Enchanted’. Maybe I am not truly social yet, but this activity makes Facebook into that really annoying neighbor who spies on you and then spreads neighborhood gossip. Time to butt out. They hide…

This Clears Things Up a Bit

Posted on March 10, 2008November 1, 2021

I’m not sure if anyone has seen David Wiley’s blog today, but I think his efforts help to illustrate the idea of distributing the social network. Take a look at it. It might change, so look soon. Does it look familiar?

I Love Our Facebook Application

Posted on January 24, 2008October 25, 2021

While our house plans application on Facebook is not anywhere near as popular as Superpoke nor will it ever be it is a great application for me because the Facebook users find house plans that I have never noticed before. With the family being the size it is we need a larger home, but if…

Indulgenc.es

Posted on January 10, 2008November 1, 2021

My second Facebook application is up. I and Marion built something to help you and your friends enjoy the lighter side of life. Try out Indulgences.

Configure your Free Facebook Joyent Accelerator for Capistrano

Posted on December 7, 2007October 25, 2021

Right now Joyent is giving away free Accelerator accounts to Facebook developers. I love free stuff so this is so cool I could just cry. Free hosting with one of the premier Ruby on Rails hosts. I normally have to eat bags of M&Ms to be this happy. Not all is roses. There is a…

Working on Second Facebook Application

Posted on November 10, 2007November 1, 2021

It is top secret, but I am working on another Facebook application. This time I am using Ruby On Rails since I don’t have to deal with legacy issues. I’ll be interested to see if there is a large performance difference. I’ll post a link when the application is ready. This time it will be…

Another Social API – I might explode

Posted on November 1, 2007November 1, 2021

Just as I finish my Facebook app here comes OpenSocial which is supposed to be an API that works with LinkedIn, Orkut, other Google services and the big recent addition, MySpace. I might just explode into a million pieces. I love that with these apps you get traffic almost as soon as you turn it…

First Facebook Application is Running

Posted on November 1, 2007November 1, 2021

I finally worked out most of the bugs for my first Facebook Application – My House Plans which uses data from my House Plan site. What is cool is that without putting in a lot of effort people are finding and adding the application. I worked on the app yesterday and then last night took…

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