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Bypass Facebook's FBML time out error

Sep 20, 2009 by jonm

Bypassing Facebooks response time limit when developing applications


There exists a certain well known problem when developing Facebook applications, Facebook has a certain time limit regarding responses from the application web server.

I am a new Facebook developer , started just a week ago and I have already encountered this issue , I will assume you have a basic knowledge of Facebook application development.

I have chosen to use FBML which is the Facebook alternative to HTML , it's a tag based markup language...

Site Updates!

Sep 10, 2009 by jonm

I haven't had a lot of time to work on the site so it took me a while to update , now that I'm done I hope to get some more content up soon but lets focus on the updates,

I have added a user system as you see , go on and register! :)

This currently allows you to post comments which are also available so go on and use them !

This is still pretty much at a beta stage so if anything breaks,  if you encounter any problems or have any suggestions for future features you want implemented let me know at jon@e-nformation.net.

(n)Wiring your code for success!

Jul 29, 2009 by jonm

(n)Wiring your code for success!

If you are like me , always on the never-ending quest for tools and ways to improve the way you work , the speed and quality of your code and the easiness in which you are able to produce hard working applications , then you'll certainly enjoy this.

What I'm talking about is nWire by nWire Software!

nWire Software is an Israel based company , founded by Israeli Entrepreneur Zviki Cohen, provides an amazing set of tools to improve the way we work , called nWire.

Basiclly...

Auto-complete and Code Assist in Eclipse

May 25, 2009 by jonm

Auto-complete and Code Assist in Eclipse

One of the most annoying issues I have encountered in all my years of using Eclipse as an IDE was with Code Assist and Auto completion , one of greatest features supported by all of Eclipse's flavours allows the automatic completion of code (mainly functions , classes , constants , variables) including valuable information including arguments order and description retrieved from JavaDoc or any other Doc prototype.

For the past two years I have been working on PHP projects using the Eclipse...

Can you Teach Yourself SQL in 10 minutes?

May 21, 2009 by jonm

Can you really Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes?
Well according to Sams you can!

I was recently handed a wonderful book to help fill any gaps I have in my SQL skills,
at first sight it didn't seem like a very helpful book , dated back in 2004 coming out with such a big promise: Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes.
As you imagine I dived into it with much doubt on how much I can learn from this book but what came next was a surprise!

First of all the book is written wonderfully and as simple as it can...

MySQL Top N in each group (group inner limit)

May 21, 2009 by jonm

MySQL Top N in each group (group inner limit)

While working on this site , I was confronted with a problem.
In the "Browse Content" I wanted to display a list of categories with each having up to 3
of the latest articles related to it , this turned out to be a harder task than I originally thought.
I'll go ahead and display what I did and link to some solution I encountered on the way(not all fit MySql unfortuneately).

Assuming our DB layout is pretty simple regarding content and categories:
Each article...