Darryl E. Clarke

Just say no to these prompts. There’s no need a Facebook application has any need to email you directly bypassing the “safe” realm of what Facebook already offers.

Applications that need to contact you can already do so via your in box, application counters, and emailing you via Facebook’s email proxy. (A proxy which protects you from the malicious behaviour I’m about to describe…)  There is just absolutely no reason that Mindjolt (no offense guys, you were the first that I saw this using and the rant below is not directed at you) needs to email me anything, ever… Continue reading Don’t Allow Facebook Apps to Get Your Email

Google seems to be rolling out an interesting pack of security updates for their sites.  The only official announcement I’ve seen is for Gmail, but I’d expect this to come for many other services.

Currently a lot of Google services work fine with https (docs, calendar, blogger.com) but none seem to offer the same default options that Gmail has.  Hopefully that will change soon.

Co-incidentally, it may just have something to do with this recent announcement from their Chief Legal Eagle.

It’s finally alive!

You can read Magaret’s announcement here.

What it is:

‘Moments Like Today’ is a collaborative project that aims to inspire people to post “moments” of their lives in three sections: mornings, afternoons, and evenings.

What I did:

While the concept and design came from Margaret and Myra, the functionality and everything back-end came from me.  With some zend framework, some man-handling of APIs from Flickr and Vimeo and a little bit of jQuery fun, the end result (for now)  is live.

If you’d like to participate in the project you can visit the Moments Like Today and read the how-to for more information.

I’ve been using Zend Framework for a while and when I do my own sites things always work as expected.  But a couple of times in the past I’ve had the honor of working on other sites with other people that have lead me to a few ‘wtf?’ issues.

The most recent one was as to why the shorter urls ie: “/index/pants” would not work.  It would always complain and blow up that the controller ‘pants’ doesn’t exist.  Even though I know for a fact that I want the index controller in the default module and the action ‘pants’… Continue reading ZF Tip: Don’t use ‘index’ as a module name.

You constantly hear about things happening to people because of things on facebook.  Mostly pictures and how certain people who probably shouldn’t be able to see them somehow managed to see them.

And it goes sort of like this.  I have a photo album called ‘Pets‘ and this album on Facebook.  This album has the privacy setting “Friends Only” and as you will see if you click the link to the album a few things will happen depending on who you are and whether or not you are logged in to Facebook… Continue reading Don’t Trust Facebook’s Photo Privacy At All