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Social Cookbook: an open source Open Graph app 28 Sep 2011 | 08:38 am
Last week, at Facebook's annual f8 conference in San Francisco, we released Open Graph along with the new Facebook Timeline. Open Graph is the biggest change to Facebook's Platform since it launched i...
Social Cookbook: an open source Open Graph app 28 Sep 2011 | 04:38 am
Last week, at Facebook's annual f8 conference in San Francisco, we released Open Graph along with the new Facebook Timeline. Open Graph is the biggest change to Facebook's Platform since it launched i...
Web Sockets in Tornado 1 Jan 2010 | 09:34 am
I have been playing around with HTML 5 Web Sockets for a personal project. The Web Sockets API enables web browsers to maintain a bi-directional communication channel to a server, which in turn makes ...
Web Sockets in Tornado 1 Jan 2010 | 03:28 am
I have been playing around with HTML 5 Web Sockets for a personal project. The Web Sockets API enables web browsers to maintain a bi-directional communication channel to a server, which in turn makes ...
OAuth WRAP support in FriendFeed for feedback 22 Dec 2009 | 10:58 am
As David Recordon mentioned on the Facebook Developer Blog, the Facebook Platform team is working to move Facebook Connect over to OAuth over the next year. As a part of that effort, we have been work...
OAuth WRAP support in FriendFeed for feedback 22 Dec 2009 | 03:29 am
As David Recordon mentioned on the Facebook Developer Blog, the Facebook Platform team is working to move Facebook Connect over to OAuth over the next year. As a part of that effort, we have been work...
My tech talk on Tornado (video and slides) 26 Sep 2009 | 07:18 am
I gave a tech talk on Tornado yesterday evening at Facebook's offices. My slides and a video of the talk are below. If you have any questions, feel free to comment below, or join the Tornado discussio...
My tech talk on Tornado (video and slides) 26 Sep 2009 | 03:30 am
I gave a tech talk on Tornado yesterday evening at Facebook's offices. My slides and a video of the talk are below. If you have any questions, feel free to comment below, or join the Tornado discussio...
The technology behind Tornado, FriendFeed's web server 11 Sep 2009 | 07:20 am
Today, we are open sourcing the non-blocking web server and the tools that power FriendFeed under the name Tornado Web Server. We are really excited to open source this project as a part of Facebook's...
How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store schema-less data 28 Feb 2009 | 08:21 am
Background We use MySQL for storing all of the data in FriendFeed. Our database has grown a lot as our user base has grown. We now store over 250 million entries and a bunch of other data, from comme...
