Life and Leisure. Tech and Toys.

Problem:
I just came across as strange problem with using CakePhp on MediaTemple. This is my first CakePhp application on MediaTemple but I am experienced when it comes to CakePhp. The problem occurs after logging in and creating a session, then quickly refresh the page multiple times. Sometimes the result will be an empty session.
The login [...]

So far the convention has been pretty informative on a beginner level. It has really gotten me more excited about learning Drupal since I haven’t learned much just from listening to presentations. Like they say, there’s nothing better than jumping right in yourself.
I guess this convention just gave me more confidence in trying it myself. [...]

I just created a page for my Wordpress Blog so people can view comment history of registered users. It took about an hour to do, I reused some code from my “Images” page for the paging.
I’m still working on trimming the fat for mobile browsers.

It looks like the new Facebook Design breaks Live Messages. For some reason the Javascript Listener doesn’t recieve any messages when using the new Facebook design. Since Live Messages are technically still in beta I guess we can’t hold Facebook responsible for breaking our test apps. Hopefully nobody put enough faith into Facebook to release [...]

Scrabulous has been dynamite since it landed on Facebook as the leading game application on the scene. Since then the application has garnered a different tone from Hasbro who own the rights the original Scrabble. Earlier this year it was said that Scrabulous would be forced to take down their application. Months have passed and [...]

While developing an application for Facebook I came across the LiveMessage feature which is currently still in beta. The only problem is that I couldn’t find much information on how people actually used the API version of it. LiveMessage seems like it could be a really useful function to leverage for real time applications, not [...]

I’ve opened registration for my Wordpress Blog to better support comments. Now you’ll be able to login and comment easily, and in the future track comments from users. Unfortunately Wordpress doesn’t have anything to easily link old comments to new users so that had to be done manually with some MySQL queries. Also Wordpress [...]

I was trying to make a quick and dirty AJAX drop-down box yesterday and for some reason after getting it to work in Firefox, IE seemed unresponsive. For both IE6 and IE7 the function would not populate the drop-down.
I know innerHTML is not standard but for a quick fix it seems logical. So basically I [...]

Grrr. Well I spent more time on my Facebook App last night and it turns out the Facebook timeout and slow REST calls really make my application useless. If Facebook doesn’t receive a response from your server under 7 secs it’ll spit out an error saying the application has a few kinks. 7 secs is [...]

I thought I had a good idea for a Facebook application until I realized that the Facebook API doesn’t allow you to view “friends of friends”. I guess they are trying to uphold the privacy of their users but it’s pretty public information when I’m logged into their site. The funny thing is that I [...]