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Dissecting React Native (Nov 2018)

Check out my most recent article “Dissecting React Native” recently published at the IBM Developer website.  This article introduces you to React Native, an open source framework by Facebook, that has become quite popular. In this article, I cover how to get started with…

Never violate customer trust

The current debacle with Facebook has been brewing for a while now, and it is very sad. For me it started last year, when I got tired of constant fake news and privacy concerns. Since then I’ve had next to zero activity on…

The Web is Broken – On net neutrality and the closed web (2017)

Facebook has done an amazing job getting Billions of users. But that same success (and the users themselves) have helped create a closed Web. I totally get it. Facebook has made it so easy and convenient to create your digital presence, and one…

AI gone bad

Another occurrence of AI gone bad. Earlier this year it was Microsoft’s Chatbot going racist. Now, Facebook’s automation software was trending fake news; keep in mind that, per the article, Facebook is a news source for 44% of US adults. Even if biased,…

Facebook buys Parse :-/

Interesting — Facebook Buys Parse To Offer Mobile Development Tools As Its First Paid B2B Service (via TC). First congrats to Parse, for the monetization event. I have been a Parse.com fan for a while and even wrote a few months ago an…

Facebook Developers World HACK – Austin

Facebook Developers World HACK visits Austin Texas on August 23, 2012! For more information and registration, visit their HACK – Austin website: At Facebook Developers World HACK, you’ll hear from Facebook engineers who will walk you through developing great apps that are social…

The beauty of data visualization

View high-res (3.8MB) (Facebook) Created by Paul Butler, an intern on Facebook’s data infrastructure engineering team, he writes: “Visualizing data is like photography. Instead of starting with a blank canvas, you manipulate the lens used to present the data from a certain angle.”…

Article: Introduction to Facebook SDK for Android

Write Facebook apps for the Android platform with the Facebook Android SDK… You can incorporate Facebook functionality into your own applications. From the mobile perspective, the Facebook Platform supports APIs for mobile web applications, and mobile SDKs for native mobile applications for the…

An Overview of the Facebook APIs

See my most recent blog article, An Overview of the Facebook APIs (Telefonica Developer’s Blog), an introduction to the different Facebook Platform APIs and their applicability to mobile. Enjoy… ceo