Re: Beer Festival in Rye
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 06:35:56PM +0100, Denny wrote: > Not very London, I know, but some friends of mine (including the guy who > managed the Pembury until recently) are about to open a pub in Rye. > Starting as they mean to go on, they're launching with a beer festival > this bank holiday weekend, starting on Thursday and running through to > Monday: > > http://queensheadrye.com > > http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3359/4632066301_48dc4f3646.jpg > (list of beers and/or brewers) > > If you know anyone in the general vicinity who might enjoy such an > event, please do pass the word around. Ooh, that's a lovely lineup! -- David Cantrell | Cake Smuggler Extraordinaire Us Germans take our humour very seriously -- German cultural attache talking to the Today Programme, about the German supposed lack of a sense of humour, 29 Aug 2001
Re: Facebook apps
On 22/05/2010, at 4:50 PM, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: > > On 22 May 2010, at 05:53, Zbigniew Lukasiak wrote: > >> Hi there, >> >> It seems that there is a huge demand for Facebook applications. At >> least this is what my colleague is trying to convince me about, but >> since I have already been approached by a guy interested in this and I >> have already written one app - I have seen all the craze of a gold >> rush in the Facebook programming forums, it is not that hard to do :) >> Are there any Perl programmers freelancing in this market? How do you >> host your apps? It is mostly about simple one-page thingies - so the >> up-front cost of setting up your own virtual machine to run your own >> apache with mod_perl is a bit intimidating. > > Load up a decent VM on Amazon. Should all be out of the box. Or any > other cloud provider. > > Are you going to give a talk on this? I did a talk on Facebook apps with Mojolicious at Adelaide Perl Mongers last month. I haven't found enough tuits to finish making the slides useable (ie screencasting the live demo parts). Once I do, it will be on http://adelaide.pm.org Mojolicious is great for one-page (or more complicated) apps - the no non-perl dependencies, small footprint and built in web server make it perfect for many hosting environments. If you're interested please beat me over the head to provide me with sufficient motivation to finish the slides off! - Justin -- Justin Hawkins jus...@hawkins.id.au
Re: Facebook apps
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 11:53:46PM +0200, Zbigniew Lukasiak said: > It seems that there is a huge demand for Facebook applications. At > least this is what my colleague is trying to convince me about, but > since I have already been approached by a guy interested in this and I > have already written one app - I have seen all the craze of a gold > rush in the Facebook programming forums, it is not that hard to do :) > Are there any Perl programmers freelancing in this market? How do you > host your apps? It is mostly about simple one-page thingies - so the > up-front cost of setting up your own virtual machine to run your own > apache with mod_perl is a bit intimidating. A few years back I wrote something that pulled your friends from FB. Getting a permanent session key was actually a bit of a trial involving some back and forth with the WWW::Facebook::API author (who was nothing but helpful I might add). I can't remember the exact details but it was considerably harder to get up and running than Flickr or OAuth at the time. FWIW my code is here http://search.cpan.org/~simonw/Net-Social-Service-Facebook-0.1/lib/Net/Social/Service/Facebook.pm but IIRC FB are switching to OAuth anyway so it's probably redundant now. Simon
