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Comment on FB Series: AJAX & Facebook debugging by Ben

Ben — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 17:38:27 +0000

Well, yeah when I re-read it it can be missinterpreted: my point was: since this setting is usually by default on, you easily forget about it – so in a ajax environment do not use this setting.

What I use instead is mostly firebug.

cheers

Comment on FB Series: AJAX & Facebook debugging by marcdelay

marcdelay — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:04:31 +0000

“I now use other tools to track what requests are being sent back and forth instead between my application and facebook.”

What are these other tools?
Why bother making a post about something that is so useless you wont even use it yourself?

Comment on FB Series: Locally debug your PHP Facebook App by Ben

Ben — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:28:18 +0000

the ports where your webserver listens to

Comment on FB Series: Locally debug your PHP Facebook App by Chris

Chris — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:47:10 +0000

What ports do you set up to be forwarded?

Comment on MegaTrend #9: Cross-platform Mobile Development by Ben

Ben — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 01:28:15 +0000

Hi Tim,

Thanks for stopping by and sorry for the late answer. I am currently burried in work but would defenetly like to checkout Airplay as soon as time allows. Such real-world examples and stories, videos etc. are exactly what I am after. Can you maybe point me to the sources for this?

Comment on Discovered Quercus by Tjerk

Tjerk — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:43:47 +0000

Yes is agree that the comparison of Quercus to PHP without opcode chaching is a lame one. Every major php site uses some kind of accalerator. So i would only recommend Quercus if you really need tight integration with Java.

Comment on MegaTrend #9: Cross-platform Mobile Development by Tim Closs

Tim Closs — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:45:27 +0000

Ben, that’s a good overview of the fragmentation problem for developers.

Web runtime SDKs (be they OEM, OS, operator, or 3rd party) are one possible solution for one category of apps.

Another approach is cross-platform “native” (compiled C++) SDKs. These can deliver higher-performance UIs and potentially more functional apps. Qt is one example, and another is our own Airplay SDK ( http://www.airplaysdk.com )

Airplay SDK allows development of apps in ‘vanilla’ C++, on PC or Mac – you compile to x86 or ARM, then deploy as a single step to all supported OS’s included iPhone, Android, Symbian, Windows Mobile and BREW… and soon to Maemo, LiMo, Samsung Bada and more. You can test your actual ARM code on the desktop, removing clumsy on-device debugging.

Airplay SDK is already very well proven in the highly-demanding sphere of advanced mobile games; e.g. the recent ‘Call of Duty: World at War: ZOMBIES’ (Activision) which was the #1 grossing app on the US and UK App Stores in November.

I’d be interested in getting feedback from any of the developers here.

Comment on MegaTrend #9: Cross-platform Mobile Development by Israfil Coskun

Israfil Coskun — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 10:37:41 +0000

Hi Ben,

Good analysis on past, present and future. I think it is appropriate to add additional category to cross-platform development:

We have developed Smartface Designer to overcome fragmentation problem since 2004.

It is a drag-and-drop cross-platform mobile app development program (IDE).

please check http://www.mobinex.biz/ feedbacks always wellcome

Comment on FB Series: Java Guy starting with FB development by Andre

Andre — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:18:50 +0000

interesting, my experience is similar but the other way round. I know php in dept and have recently moved into java. not to say the least, java is a beautifully designed language.
I’ve never done a facebook app however and was reading the dev guides and got the link to your post there. FBML and and everything else seems to tie in quite nicely, knowing java and php in combination has made it easier for me to start working on a fb app. At least i think so anyway.
nice post btw….

Comment on Discovered Quercus by Ben

Ben — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 04:10:16 +0000

Just a short note: I tried Quercus with Glassfish v2.1 and the v3 prelude edition but didn’t succeed in deploying the quercus war. Here are the notes I took:

Tried out Quercus: Effort: 3 hours
- Simple quercus app was running.
- 4.0.1 : Loop of nullpointer exceptions in
java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.caucho.util.Alarm.extractAlarm(Alarm.java:432)
at com.caucho.util.Alarm$CoordinatorThread.run(Alarm.java:704)
- 3.2.1: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/caucho/quercus/function/AbstractFunction
- Impression from mailing list and bugreports that this product is not so ready.

It might run ok if professional version is purchased & run on resin.