Following up on this post I finally managed to get around and finish my Facebook application, MySubs, which allows you to share your SubCard information with your friends. Here’s my information that I published to the stream:
A real quick post here and I’m open to suggestions as this has been bugging me for a few hours and I can’t stop thinking that there’s a better way to do it.
I’m using the Kohana PHP Framework and I need to access a controller from a model and yes I’m aware this defies the MVC pattern but I can’t think of any other way to do it.
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Subway have recently brought out subcards into the UK as they was previously NI only and I had this crazy idea about making a Facebook application that would allow users to share their Subway purchases, favorite sandwiches, stores, etc. with their Facebook friends and allow them to post this information to the Live Feed.
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So, I’m pretty open minded when it comes to technology, especially diving head-first into programming languages but for some reason I’ve always had a personal vendetta and hatred towards Java even though I’ve never touched the language. I think it comes from my line-of-work; clients ringing up complaining that this Java plugin isn’t working or their browser crashes because of a Java applet. Anyhow, vendettas aside I decided to dive in – fueled with wine gums and semi-naked…
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When using a third-party product with any Microsoft product it usually spells trouble and you know some rough times are ahead – especially in this case where I was trying to retrieve a list of accounts on Dynamics CRM via SOAP and PHP.
I recently came across a client who wasn’t happy with the Outlook Web Interface while accessing their e-mail from home and wanted to access it from Outlook as if they was in the office – not a problem at all with Exchange over HTTPS, right?
Just thought I’d share a quick post; I’ve been using Kohana (PHP framework) in my recent project and I must say it’s the best framework I’ve used, albeit I’ve only used CakePHP and CodeIgniter so I can’t compare it to much.
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Here we have a sample demo of sending and receiving SMS (text messages) in real-time using APE’s libape_controller. We also utilize an SMS gateway called Esendex which is a UK based company – hence the name EsenAPE. When a message is sent to Esendex (e.g. you reply to the text you sent yourself) it will call a URL (RPC.php) we can then pass this onto APE for updating the users UI. The idea originated from a project I’ve just completed with work, Alert and Respond which basically does what this demo does but not in real time (polls every 30 seconds). It’s a good example of how to use the libape_controller – let me know what you think 
I’ve recently been working on a Facebook application called “Call of Duty 5 Statistics” – for you gamers out there you probably know already what is it. You can basically share, view and compare statistics regarding Call of Duty 5 with your Facebook friends.
I’ve just took it out of sandbox mode so it’s complete live and ready to go! You can add the application visiting http://apps.facebook.com/codstats/ or check my statistics out.
A very quick post in regards to Matijah’s comment on Using jquery With APE. We can easily modify the colorChanger application so we can change the background via PHP. This could be extremely helpful in pushing UI changes to users clients, something I struggle to implement using plain PHP and JavaScript.
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