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Static FBML: Not Every Facebook Fan Page Needs An Application

You don't always need a custom application for your Facebook fan page to look amazing. Save yourself time and money by using the Static FBML application instead. If you've played around with Facebook pages at all, you know that layout-wise, you don't have a lot of options. It's one of the ...

Why I Won’t Follow You Back on Twitter

In a recent post, you learned a little more about what it's like to follow me on Twitter, warnings and all. In this post - one that I hope will be the last Twitter-related post for a while - I'm going to tell you why I didn't - and won't ...

There is NO SUCH THING as a Social Media Marketer

That's right. I said it. If your job title is "Social Media Marketer" for a company, your job isn't real, your life is a lie, and you'd damned well better have a backup career plan for when corporate America catches on. Here's why. I recently got into an impassioned discussion on ...

Comparison of Desktop Twitter Clients

In my never-ending quest for the perfect Twitter client, I've decided to do a side-by-side comparison of features of some of more popular clients. This list is probably not exhaustive, and the current clients continue to add new features frequently. I'll try to keep it updated as they do, though. We'll ...

New Facebook Phishing Attempts

Looks like a new round of phishing attacks are well underway, targeting Facebook users. There are a few going around, and they seem to work slightly differently (although same principle) to the previous round of virus/phishing attacks from last year, featuring the Bolivar23.exe virus and the Koobface virus. These phishing ...

This Blue Bird’s Wings Just Got Clipped

As most Twitter user's know, Twitter recently implemented a change to the way @replies are handled in the user's timeline. This change dramatically impacts the way I (and many of my followers) use Twitter, and does potentially irreperable damage to the one thing that truly set Twitter apart from other ...

Following Me on Twitter

If you're following me on Twitter, or if you're thinking about following me on Twitter, here's some stuff you should probably know. Although it may sound like I'm trying to convince you not to follow me, that's not the case at all. I'd absolutely love to have you! I just want ...

Changes to Facebook’s Newsfeed/Wall

With the most recent API changes, specifically the one that changed the way fan pages behave so that they look and behave more like Facebook user profiles, Facebook also made a significant change in how newsfeeds work in applications. Previously, you would send newsfeed items to a user's profile wall and ...

%$#^%$* Facebook Application Tabs

So this is new. And by new I mean painfully similar to the types of major functionality bugs we see every time there is a large-scale functionality change in Facebook. I don't know if this is a bug, or just undocumented, but I am unable to get the FBID of a ...

More on Haiku (or Moron Haiku?)

So I've been on a bit of a haiku-kick lately, and decided to do something about it. The recent obsession started, I think, with my commute. I commute 4.5 hours a day every day to work, round trip, and it's really quite miserable. I can handle the drive to the bus ...

And Still More Notes on Mosso

Continuing in the Moving to Mosso series, I've come across a few more issues that anyone considering moving to Mosso should consider. I've been with them for over two months now, and am very happy with them. Like the previous article, these issues are not dealbreakers - at least they are ...

Quick and Dirty PHP Caching

Caching your database-driven website pages has a plethora of benefits, not the least of which being improved speed and reduced server loads. This article will explain how to set up a simple caching system, and will also address when and where caching might not be appropriate. For me, the impetus to ...

SVN Working Copies and Repository Locations

In part one of this series, you learned what Subversion is and how it can help you, in addition to the terms you'll need to become familiar with in order to use Subversion in your development process. Part two of this series goes into more specific detail about potential development ...

Getting Started with Subversion

As a web developer, hopefully you're already using subversion, and this tutorial is utterly useless to you. If so, good job, and carry on! If you're a web developer (or web designer, or web programmer, or are in any way creating files that display or do something on the internet) ...

The… Er… Anatomy of a Twitter Meme

This is a transcript of the #giantblueglowingcock Twitter meme from March 9, 2009. This meme, started by myself and @brlittle, managed to make the front page of Twitscoop - that is, until they decided it was too naughty and they pulled it. The meme is, of course, about the movie ...

Getting to Know Belize

I was fortunate enough to spend last week in a beautiful little country in Central America called Belize. Like many people, I didn't know much about Belize before I went, and wasn't sure what to expect. After spending an amazing week there, I wanted to share my experiences with you, ...

Questions to Ask Before Starting a Project

We're all human, and we all make mistakes and overlook important details sometimes - but the thing I can't stand is making the same mistake twice. To prevent making the same mistakes twice, I have an ever-evolving list of questions that I use to create the tech brief for new ...

Practical Mod_Rewrite for Web Developers

On *nix-based servers, mod_rewrite can be a powerful tool in any web monkey's arsenal, however it still voodoo to many, while others may not even be aware that it can help them at all. What is Mod_Rewrite? Simply put, mod_rewrite is an Apache module that let's you rewrite urls based on rules ...

Holyshit! It’s Nerdcore Rising!

I'm a big nerdcore hip-hop fangirl, as you've probably figured out by now if you've spent any time in the Music section of this site or following me on Twitter. On Friday night, I was fortunate enough to go to a very limited screening of the documentary Nerdcore Rising, at ...

Some Notes on Moving to Mosso

It's been over a month since I opened my account with Mosso, Rackspace's cloud hosting division. Overall, I've been very happy with my decision - but there are a few things you may want to be aware of if you're considering switching. These issues are not deal-breakers, and most restrictions can ...

Laptop Bags for 17-inch Macbook Pro

I have an addiction to laptop bags. I'm not sure why, but no matter how many I have, I'm still always looking for the perfect bag: the bag that isn't too big, but fits all my stuff. The bag that's nice looking and let's me organize things in a way ...

Photo-Realistic Painting in Photoshop

While Photoshop is an incredibly powerful photo manipulator, you can achieve amazing results using it as a painting program as well. If you have some more traditional art skills but are not sure how to make it work in Photoshop, check out these tutorials. Painting in Photoshop takes time and patience, ...

Photoshop Tutorials That Will Change Your Life

Photoshop tutorials are a dime a dozen, and simply googling for "photoshop tutorials" will net you over ten million results, and the majority of them aren't worth the pixels they're printed on. Some, on the other hand, are simply jaw-dropping. This post is not geared towards the professional graphic designers ...

Advertising on Facebook – Part Three

Part three of this series will deal specifically with an important issue that had come up in part one: Some users, albeit a tiny percentage of overall users, were encountering a malware warning on pages where SocialCash ads are being served. This is, of course, a BFD. As I mentioned ...

First Look: Postbox Beta

Postbox is a new cross-platform for both Mac and Windows that promises to finally deliver what so many email clients before it have promised. Advanced functionality like Outlook, without, well, Outlook. More native features and intuitive interface than Thunderbird. Conversation threading and tagging like Gmail, without the inelegant webmail interface. ...

Advertising on Facebook – Part Two

In part one of this series, we talked about your options - and possible concessions you may have to make if you opt to advertise on Facebook applications. Part two will discuss the returns I have seen so far based on my own applications, and the ad network's payout schedule. If ...

Advertising on Facebook – Part One

I have a Facebook application that seems to be doing rather well - over 100k monthly active users after just two months, and gaining by about 1.5k every day. I've been toying with trying to monetize that in some way, and the most obvious way (that requires the least amount ...

Trying out Facebook Connect

After much deliberation, I have decided to give Facebook Connect a shot on Snipe.Net. Those of you who read this site regularly may remember that I had quite a lot to say about using Facebook Connect last month, so it may seem odd that I'm making this decision. I'll explain. But... ...

Learn New Languages Online For Free with LiveMocha

Learning a new language becomes increasingly harder, the older we get - but it's not impossible by any means. People do it all the time for school or work, but they very often have the advantage of taking a formal class or lessons. The internet is brimming with opportunity ...

Handy Mac OSX Command Line Tricks

Mac users love their Macs for lots of different reasons - the interface is pretty and (generally) stable, things just "work", and for the command-line junkies, there's nothing you can't do by command line that you can do through the GUI. In fact, there's some stuff you can't do with ...