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Who Am I?

I'm a passionate 24 year old Irish Web Designer & Developer and (currently) a Project Manager who loves creating exciting new user interfaces and writing about topics that can help other web designers out there at the moment. Although I've been approached by Facebook, Microsoft and Google over the years, I enjoy working in smaller companies. If you're interested in speaking to me about contract work, please leave me a note on the site and I'll get back to you as soon as possible.

How Can I Become A Better Developer?

If you've come here (or any dev blog) hoping to learn a few tips and tricks, you're already well on your way to becoming a better developer.Expanding your knowledge through reading books, blogs and trial-and-error coding are some great steps to improving your knowledge. If you would like to read more on this topic, see my article called '10 Professional Tips For Designers and Developers' here.

How to Add Facebook Connect To Your Website in just 3 Steps

Many Social Networking sites allow users to authenticate through their APIs – this means that rather than needing to have a complete registration system on your site, you can simply allow users to authenticate with a third-party service and then grab their profile picture and name for use in your commenting systems or other scripts. In today’s tutorial, I’m going to show you how to add the most popular of these services (Facebook Connect) to your website in 3 steps.

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Creating a Facebook Application – a guide for PHP, JavaScript, Flex and Grails developers

If you’re a web developer and you haven’t explored the many ins and outs of Facebook app development so far, I would definitely recommend taking a weekend out just to try it out – you might be surprised at what you might learn (and it always looks good on a resume ). What I like about the Facebook platform is that you get a nice steady integrated flow of your friends comments, events, application notices and more made we want to ask the question – how can I build something cool that can use all this data? It’s actually surprisingly straightforward.
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