Facebook chat connect with X-FACEBOOK-PLATFORM using Jaxl 2.0

August 8, 2010   -   XMPP   -   112 comments

Facebook chat provides two authentication mechanisms for authenticating chat client users. DIGEST-MD5 require chat client users to enter their username and password, while X-FACEBOOK-PLATFORM can be used to provide better user experience by using simple Facebook Platform authentication. In this blog post, I will demonstrate how to use Jaxl library for X-FACEBOOK-PLATFORM authentication. Echobot using [...]

Writing your first facebook chat bot in PHP using Jaxl library

February 11, 2010   -   XMPP   -   57 comments

Today facebook officially announced availability of it’s chat through jabber/xmpp clients. This is a big win for XMPP, with almost 400 million new probable users adding into XMPP club. In this post, I will demonstrate how to connect to facebook chat servers using Jaxl client library in PHP. It can further be used to make [...]

Facebook type image rotation and more using PHP and Javascript

July 1, 2009   -   PHP   -   26 comments

If you are a facebook geek like me, you must have noticed till now the image rotate functionality in the photo albums. Facebook allows you to rotate images 90 degree clockwise and anti-clockwise after image upload. If you haven’t tried that till now, below is a screenshot for your convenience. Question: But the question is [...]

Konami Code on Facebook : How to implement it on your site

May 19, 2009   -   Web Development   -   14 comments

Yesterday while chatting with friends, I discovered an unusual thing on facebook. Unusual because I didn’t see any sense in what I saw back then. The process to discover this unusual thing is as follows: How to view lens flare on facebook 1. Login to facebook.com 2. Click once anywhere on your home page 3. [...]

Memcached and "N" things you can do with it – Part 1

January 18, 2009   -   Scalability   -   19 comments

In my last post MySQL Query Cache, WP-Cache, APC, Memcache – What to choose, I discussed in brief about 4 caching technologies which you might have used knowingly or unknowingly. Towards the end we came to a conclusion that memcached is the best caching solution when you are looking for speed and number of hits [...]

Link to new facebook design: See it building everyday

July 15, 2008   -   Tech News   -   2 comments

Hello Everyone, I don’t exactly remember from where I came across this link. The link shows you the latest development on new look and feel of facebook. Click the link below which will take you to the new facebook’s development page. New Facebook Design Development Link What’s new in the new design? Well Facebook was [...]

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