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Django Facebook – Open graph API implementation
Update: This blog post is outdated, a new and vastly upgraded version of Django Facebook is now available. Read more about it here. For Fashiolista.com we needed to integrate with the Facebook Open...
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Creating your own Digg/Facebook/Tweetmeme button
This quick walkthrough is going to bring you up to speed on how to create your own social bookmarking button. The three prime examples are the famous Digg button, Facebook’s like functionality and the...
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Django open inviter – contact importer – python
Django open inviter is a python port of the PHP api client for openinviter.com’s contact importer to work with Django. I build it for our fashion community, Fashiolista.com, where it is currently in...
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Mixing Django with Jinja2 without losing template debugging
Since I have finally set up my own blog this post has been moved to: http://w.wol.ph/2013/07/28/mixing-django-with-jinja2-without-losing-template-debugging/ Share and Enjoy:
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Django Facebook 2.0 – Integrating Facebook
It’s been a year since Facebook changed the web with the open graph API and their like button. Unfortunately Facebook didn’t have much developer love for the python/django platform. Django Facebook...
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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...
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Amsterdam 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...
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Django 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...
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Facebook 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...
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Fashiolista 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...
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Performance 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...
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Open 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...
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Django 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...
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Django 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...
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Build 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...
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Django 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...
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Build 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:
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Python 3 – Stream Framework
A quick repost for Stream Framework, Python 3 support. Share and Enjoy:
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How 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:
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Twitter 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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