I ran into SSL timeouts on in local development setup when I was re-factoring some integration code with facebook and using their SDK. It was tricky to diagnose, I was sure that my changes couldn't be the cause, and I finally confirmed it by running our production codebase. Since it was having the same timeout error, I knew the bug had to be in an underlying layer.
For the record, I'm running this version of curl on my Archlinux box:
While testing some updates to one of our Facebook applications today, I ran into an odd error message on IE8. The error message mentioned KB927917, and is caused by trying to modify the DOM before it is built. At first, I was confused, because the app is not modifying the DOM at all, its a redirect that is part of the authentication step. The culprit code was something like:
I had a great time attending and presenting at CapitalCampDC this year, and look forward to doing it again. I talked about how we are using Facebook applications to run contests at D.C. United. You can view the slides at the link below.
Interesting persepective, is this another way of saying "Release early, release often"?
This stands to reason: our nontechnical people are having discussions and debates while Zuckerberg is coding his next feature. This is why no one has been able to keep up with Facebook!
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