Packt Publishing is offering exclusive discounts. Read their press release here: July, 2011 Packt Open Source announce exclusive discount offers on best-selling books Packt Open Source has this week announced a series of discounts on its selection of best selling Open Source books. Readers will be offered exclusive discounts off the cover price of selected print books and eBooks for […]

Here’s a small class that does string substitution, inspired by printf function in C. You can pass an Object into the function and it will search and replace the content of stringwith values of the objects. Parameters: stringFormat is a String object that you want to fill with replacements. substituteData is an Object containing the […]

You can try the example for this guide at: https://www.permadi.com/tutorial/facebook-js-oauth-popup-centered/index.html Background The normal way to open the OAUTH dialog is as described here, by calling: You can open the dialog in the same window, like this: More details can be read here. The normal route if you want to show the dialog as a popup […]

This is intended for non programmer as a step by step guide of how to to display Flash content in a Tab page. (Note: technically, there’s no longer Tabs in Facebook pages since Facebook moved the tab to the left Sidebar, but I will still refer them as Tabs). Non developers no need to freak […]

Just received the following Press Release from Packt Publishing, one of the book listed is for Away3D: “Packt has this week announced a series of discounts and promotions on its selection of Open Source Graphic Applications and Library books. The Open Source Graphic Applications and Libraries Month will offer readers exclusive discounts of 20% and […]

The traditional method of adding custom contents to a Page is by using the Static FBML application. This approach has a lot of limitations, such as not being able to call Javascript or PHP files.   This method as you may already know, it is being deprecated by Facebook.   See Developer Roadmap. The other […]

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Easter Your Friend
April 10, 2011

Easter is coming soon, so why not send some Easter Greetings to your friends and family? Easter Your Friend will paste your friend’s photo into an Easter Egg. You can then email it as ecards or post it to Facebook walls. See an example below. Please upgrade your browser Play now. Happy Easter!!!

This tutorial demonstrates how to use Google MAP API version 3 to find a location and puts a marker on the MAP. For information about setting up the map, see here: /blog/2011/04/using-google-map-api-3-for-javascript-beginner-how-to-and-example/.     New to Version 3 of the API is the Geolocation service, which enables you to retrieve the location information (including longitude […]

The Google MAP API version 3 offers improvements over the previous versions that makes it easier and more convenient to use. The one I like the most: you no longer need to obtain an API Key to use, very convenient.   You can read more about the changes and the API here: http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/javascript/basics.html. This guide […]