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SUD – A bookmark plugin for responsive sites 4 days ago

Responsive websites are getting more and more mainstream these days. They can be a pain in the ass for bugfixing, especially when clients are mailing bugs/changes without nothing more then a screenshot and some comments. It’s us, the developers, who have to figure out where and on which …

Creating a progress bar in ASP.NET using SignalR last month

Introducing SignalR Whenever you need to create an interactive widget on a website you often end up writing a lot of code in having the widget updated through asynchronous calls between client and server. Moreover in most cases the widget will pull for updates while it would be much more …

A blob storage hive provider for Umbraco 5 (beta) 2 months ago

An introduction into Umbraco Hive and creating a Hive provider which stores media on Azure blob storage. Related files: download the source code – download the web application Jupiter is just around the corner With its first beta release on November 11th the road to Umbraco 5 (aka Jupiter) …

responsive awareness 3 months ago

It’s 2011, the way we consume the internet has changed quite a bit over the past few years. We’re now dealing with a whole new range of web capable devices: smartphones, tablets and TV’s, just to name a few. Yet for the last couple of years websites are designed and built for a …

Introducing Dude Where’s My Velo 6 months ago

Dude Where’s My Velo is a new HTML5 web app you can open on your phone to find the nearest velo city-bike in Antwerp. The interface is a full window Google Map with colour-coded markers representing the location of bike stations and the availability of velos. Geolocation is used to center the map …
keywords antwerp, geolocation, google, html5, interface, javascript, map, mobile development, nodejs, sass

Introducing Dude Where’s My Velo 6 months ago

Dude Where’s My Velo is a new HTML5 web app you can open on your phone to find the nearest velo city-bike in Antwerp. The interface is a full window Google Map with colour-coded markers representing the location of bike stations and the availability of velos. Geolocation is used to center the map …
keywords antwerp, geolocation, google, html5, interface, javascript, map, mobile development, sass

Using the server-side authentication flow for Facebook … 7 months ago

When we need to authenticate a user in a Facebook Page Tab, it is tempting to use the FB.login() function of the JavaScript SDK. It requires less work on our end and the popup dialog is less intrusive than a full redirect. But if we need to access the Graph API or verify that a [...]
keywords api, authentication, facebook, graph, server side

Using the server-side authentication flow for Facebook … 6 months ago

When we need to authenticate a user in a Facebook Page Tab, it is tempting to use the FB.login() function of the JavaScript SDK. It requires less work on our end and the popup dialog is less intrusive than a full redirect. But if we need to access the Graph API or verify that a [...]
keywords api, authentication, facebook, graph, page tab, page tabs, server side

Query Strings for Facebook Page Tabs 6 months ago

There is a very useful but rarely used feature of the Facebook platform which allows you to pass query string parameters into Page Tabs. This is a powerful feature because you can use it to build full applications inside a Page Tab. No canvas app is required. For example, if you had a …
keywords canvas, facebook, page tab, page tabs, query string, query strings

Query Strings for Facebook Page Tabs 7 months ago

There is a very useful but rarely used feature of the Facebook platform which allows you to pass query string parameters into Page Tabs. This is a powerful feature because you can use it to build full applications inside a Page Tab. No canvas app is required. For example, if you had a …
keywords canvas, facebook, query string, query strings