This is another piece of Facebook code examples. Since their documentation is a horrendous mess, I feel like the more examples of different stuff is on the web, the better.

This example is for the "Old" REST API php module, which seems to be way more powerful than the new one.

Their Create Application API is a relatively new addition that lets ( Read more... )

How to make your Facebook app with PHP and their new APIs (this is kind of hard to find online, and Facebook's example is confusing since it uses Javascript SDK as well; this is assembled from http://www.takwing.idv.hk/tech/fb_dev/index.php):

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My web services, haven and ebay predictor, are temporarily not available.
Looks like the hard drive on the server is starting to fail.

Behold! A variable name.

"SoCalledStudlyPlatformBrainDeadPointerRelocationFixup"

Use a merging tool instead of diff command when you need to bring your code up to date. Such as WinMerge.

(That is, unless you already use an editor that can do it, like emacs -- which I don't)

How to make inline-block and vertical-align work in IE7 ( Read more... )

I made a pretty big update to public webform for laptop price predictor:
http://ebay.xirax.net

And I am looking into expanding it into some other category -- today I've coded up automatic attribute extraction given eBay category. Previously all attribute names (and for webform, values) were

When you least expected it...

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My eBay data collector worked without any interference on my part (apart from renewing eBay dev license) for 8 months. Also, the error reported today in only 17.3%, not much different from 15.5% reported during defense.

I plan on retraining the model overnight.

I hate javascript.