You know it’s going to be a good one when a Facebook developer blog post starts with “At Facebook, our passion for serving users…”, so I wasn’t particularly surprised by this declaration that Facebook’s new policy aims to regulate the emotion of “surprise”:
Users must not be surprised by the outcome of an action they take.
Granted, […]
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Many of the prominent blog posts and press pieces about OpenSocial have touted its use of open standards a key benefit for developers. Focusing on HTML and JavaScript is not only inaccurate, but it actually makes the platform less attractive for developers.
We Like FBML
As a developer, I am far more interested in coding in FBML […]
Working creatively with APIs is one of the things that makes software development fun. APIs exist mainly to allow third parties to add functionality to software that the original authors don’t have the time, interest, or creativity to do on their own.
Most APIs are built to limit functionality, or more kindly, at least to […]
