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Facebook forces every developer of Facebook Apps to make all Apps (and that also means Tabs) available via iFrame by 1.10.2011 (pure Connect pages are not affected). Unfortunately the willing develpoer is at the moment not to 100% in a position to do so, because the Facebook SDK (the proxy script that is used to …

You can find Facebook’s LIKE button everywhere. When a user klicks it, this is posted automatically on his wall (and on his friends’ walls too). If he has also written a comment, the familiar website abstract appears. That is, a picture along with a short description. But where does Facebook get this information?

To change the iFrame version “like” button’s language, it is sufficient to add the locale to the UR, e.g. “?locale=de_DE”. With the XFBML version, language settings are made globally via the respective Java script. That is, instead of just

During a short 650 km excursion, these pictures of the Großglockner were taken. (see also the panorama of the Hochtor)

During a short road trip to the Großglockner Hochtor (2506 m), this panorama was shot.

Xeround (pronounced see-round) is a Database-as-a-Service provider.

To get the number of a fan page’s fans, the following code is sufficient: With slight modifications, using this you can also determine the fans / likes of any link: UPDATE: As of today (19.8.2011), it is possible fo achieve this directly via the graph API: Graph API available for checking if a user likes …

Backup! Even though harddisks have meanwhile become extremely inexpensive, and you can build raid arrays with them for little money, this does not protect you against e.g. file system errors. So backup is necessary. As should be well-known by now, I am a big fan of cloud services. My backup too resides in the cloud.

By now, I have registered several domains for myself and for customers. Until about half a year ago, I also ran two DNS servers of my own. But this effort is rather a bit too much, and, to be honest, also too tedious. Since I am a fan of *aaS (Infrastructure|Platform|Software as a Service), I …

What is the freelancer’s favourite pastime? Right: writing invoices! But what comes before the invoice in most cases? Exactly, the offer. And then there are also the reminders. But why should one always have to write all that oneself?