3twenty3.com,Jason Newlin

One of my daily reads - Smashing Magazine. I love it. Tons of great info, and sweet links.

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If you have not visited yet, DO IT. Some of my favorite posts are the ‘Best Of’ for each month. There is always a few things they put in that I missed during the month, and get so excited they highlighted.

Check out the past 3 months worth:
Best Of October 2007
Best Of September 2007
Best Of August 2007

Give them a read and let me know what got you excited.

Href’s, they are everywhere, you cannot escape them. I have noticed a couple people talking about them lately, April put together some good links - Happy Hyperlinks & Link Love. Some good reading. One of my favorite things mentioned in the Coding Horror article is - Don’t radically alter link behavior. Classic. I really hate it when sites do that kind of stuff. April also touched on the use of ‘Click Here’. One of my other favs. I came across this article Does Telling Someone to “Click Here” Actually Matter? over at copyblogger. It is a great read. I get super annoyed with somebody telling me where to click, but I guess it works. BUT you will not find me using it.

At Terralever we have been building some Facebook applications, and have started shifting a lot of effort into building more.

I have to say they are a challenge, but a fun challenge. One of the developers, Justin and I were chatting today about this one new app we are working on and we both realized that we are learning so much about Facebook applications during every piece of function we write. Funny. But awesome too. There is so much to learn about the platform and how to use it, its so powerful.

One of the cool things that I found out today was collecting information about a user when they uninstall an application. I have never really wanted to collect any info on the users before, but the client we are building for right now wanted to collect a bunch of info about the users when they uninstall their app.

What we really wanted was the uid from that user. So, in the facebook documentation Post-Remove URL, they list all the POST variables. But I was having a hard time getting that info. Even watching with fiddler, I could not get the fb_sig_user. Finally, we just had to believe it was there, and sure enough it was.

uid = Convert.ToInt64(Request.Form["fb_sig_user"]);

There it is the C# used in the Post-Remove page. Awesome, I wish all facebook stuff was that easy.

Next up, the Fb:dialog. YAY.