Die Socialisten Garage

Beside the fact that every serious web developer should take some time to protect their app against attacks like XSS and SQL injections, many developers forget about protecting the app on Facebook and their own Facebook profile as well. In this quick tutorial I will show you 5 easy steps to increase the security of [...]

In January 2012 Open Graph, an interface that enables deeper integration of proprietary apps and websites with the Facebook Graph, was launched and publicly activated. Since then a lot of aspects of this software have been overhauled, some features were enhanced, some completely canceled. Despite initial scepticism — there was apprehension concerning extensive additional efforts for [...]

So you have followed my first tutorial and have successfully connected your web-app to Google+ with the Sign-In Button and are now ready to offer your users a truly social experience – well done, but what’s next?! In this short tutorial I’ll show you how to implement one of the key-patterns most social web-apps will [...]

Last weekend we attended the jQuery Europe 2013 conference. Hosted by Gentics, the conference was held at the Palais Liechtenstein, a beautiful garden palace in Vienna’s 9th district. Needless to say, we have never attended a conference at a more stunning location: There was also a separate room for ad-hoc presentations, an XBOX360 Kinect station [...]

[tl;dr] In December Facebook announced more strict requirements for Pages’ cover-photos and photos in sponsored stories, essentially limiting the amount of text-overlay in these assets to 20% max. Since these requirements are going into effect today (Jan 15th 2013), here’s an update on the new rules and how they’ll be enforced!