Just launched a Facebook competition for Princess Cruiselines. The application is a trivia contest featuring 20 daily questions. Answers are all based on destinations you can cruise to, and can be found on various Princess web properties. Each correct answer gets you another entry into the sweepstakes, and the winner gets a free cruise for two. This project is part [...]

Just launched the completely redesigned website for Redondo Beach’s Lobster Festival. The site was designed by Champ Creative and is powered by my custom CMS. I was responsible for all coding (front end html/js/css and backend PHP/MySQL). You can see it here: http://lobsterfestival.com

There are already loads of resources on the interwebs explaining the purpose of regular expressions so no need to explain further here. (Well basically, they allow you to match and extract patterns of text from strings). I just want to document a few quick examples that I use a lot.

The new graph api makes it really easy to show user profile pictures. It doesn’t however give you your full size profile picture. Find out how to get that too.

I’ve been building a few Facebook applications recently, and would like to share solutions to some things that caused me lots of headaches.