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How Facebook Platform Works and Why We Like It

Facebook for college admissions: Facebook Platform Art

At Inigral, I’ve been fortunate enough to be able to build an application that integrates with Facebook, perhaps the most advanced and interesting platform ever created.

The Role Facebook Platform Plays in Higher Ed Data Security

Facebook for college admissions: Facebook Security

It’s no coincidence that many university CIOs I’ve spoken to have the role of Chief Privacy Officer as well. Privacy and control of data is an essential consideration for university technology offices.

Trouble with config.gem?

Trouble with config.gem?

While going back through an improving some initialization code of our application I moved all require statements for our rails gems into the Rails::Initializer block. This worked great for everyone except one of my coworkers who reported the following error: c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/version.rb:237:in `initialize’: undefined method `collect’ for #<Gem::Version::Requirement:0x371b2d8> (NoMethodError) The solution turned out to be very [...]

Facebook FBJS Javascript Library

Facebook FBJS Javascript Library

We’re big fans of javascript. Used correctly it can create a great user experience. It gives me great pleasure to announce that we at Inigral have decided to develop and share our own Javascript library with the rest of the Facebook development community. It’s available now at: http://github.com/gdeglin/inigral-fbjs-library