Django Facebook 3.0 – OAuth migration – Time to upgrade!
Facebook is migrating to HTTPS and OAuth to increase the safety of their users. Unfortunately these changes aren’t backwards compatible and will require some effort to follow. To support the new...
View ArticleAmsterdam based, VC funded startup, Fashiolista looking for new team members
Over the past months Fashiolista has grown to be one of the largest fashion communities worldwide. Dividing attention between scaling the site and creating new features has been quite a challenge. We...
View ArticleDjango Facebook 3.2 – Simple image upload and wall posts
Most of the Facebook examples are written in PHP and unfortunately for us they always seem so damn simple. I think the Python libraries should allow you to write more elegant code and the new version...
View ArticleFacebook open graph publishing simplified
Facebook has just enabled the open graph for 60 lucky apps. The new open graph beta allows you to post a user’s actions to their timeline. This activity is shown to the user’s friends in Facebook’s...
View ArticleFashiolista in NY
The Fashiolista team is in New York for the fashion week. I’m looking forward to meet some local tech startups. Drop me a mail or leave a comment if you want to grab a coffee. Cheers, Thierry...
View ArticlePerformance metrics for a social network
This is a talk I gave at the Amsterdam Performance Meetup. The presentation starts by introducing Fashiolista. It still amazes me and 3 other guys started Fashiolista and grew it to the 2nd largest...
View ArticleOpen graph and timeline sharing using Django Facebook
As many apps will find out today, Facebook is removing it’s offline_access permission on October 3rd. For most apps this will mean that many of your open graph shares start failing. Fashiolista has...
View ArticleDjango Facebook hotfix, update to 5.0.13
Last night Facebook changed the format they use for codes. (codes are an intermediate step in the process of requesting access tokens.) This change broke the caching for the convert code step for...
View ArticleDjango Facebook – 1.5 and custom user model support
Django Facebook now officially supports Django 1.5 and custom user models! Go try it out and upgrade to pip version 5.1.1. It’s backwards compatible and you can choose if you want to keep on using...
View ArticleBuild a scalable feed using Feedly and Django
About a year ago we open sourced the feed component of Fashiolista called Feedly. At Fashiolista it powers the flat feed, aggregated feed and the notification system. In general it allows you to build...
View ArticleDjango Facebook 5.3
The 5.3 release makes it a lot easier to get started with Django Facebook. Documentation has had a major overhaul, many small bugs have been fixed and setting validation will complain if you make...
View ArticleBuild a scalable Twitter clone with Django and GetStream.io
Have a look at this tutorial on how to build a scalable twitter clone using django and getstream.io Share and Enjoy:
View ArticlePython 3 – Stream Framework
A quick repost for Stream Framework, Python 3 support. Share and Enjoy:
View ArticleHow to build a notification feed using Stream
Tommaso wrote a quick tutorial on how to build a notification feed using Django and Stream. How to build a notification feed using Stream. Share and Enjoy:
View ArticleTwitter way back machine
One of the associates at Techstars created this beautiful demo of Stream’s technology (github repo). If you ever wondered about Thomas Edison’s or Nikola Tesla’s tweets, check it out! :) Share and Enjoy:
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