Archive for February, 2008

Poor System Design

Monday, February 18th, 2008

Since I'm in the blogging mood and I've installed point-of-sale systems in the past, I thought this was a particularly bad system for its intended purpose. The last few times I've eaten at a specific deli (name omitted to protect some unfortunate systems analyst) here in Chapel Hill, the ...

Facebook Events

Monday, February 18th, 2008

Recently I took a dive into the Facebook API to see what information was available for group and event photos. As for my original intent, I learned about an undocumented feature in the facebook.photos.get method, which accepts a "gid" or "eid" value to return group and event photos respectively. ...