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Security is painful. My attempts to make our applet that is using RMI use SSL as well have absolutely done my head in. First there was the fact that a self signed certificate wouldn’t do. This wasn’t a big surprise, but it wouldn’t even allow me to test...

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The Big Facebook Fail

Posted by brendo | Posted in All Posts, rant | Posted on 11-03-2008

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When the Facebook developer Platform was first announced, thoughts of brilliant applications using Facebook’s amazing viral marketing ability was all I could think about. It was touted as an online revolution. Colleges ran classes on developing Facebook applications and every Tom, Dick and Harry had a play around with FBML (Facebook Markup Language) – myself included.