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Facebook is in the middle of pushing out it’s new look. In keeping with that I am working through updating my three applications. Apple Detox first, looks ok, next up is the more active Psychic Connection, saving Animal guides for last. I’m not racing through the updates since Facebook is probably going to keep the old layout active [...]

The general idea of Telepathy is the direct communication between two minds without external measurable methods (speaking, hand signals, winks.. ). The information being transferred is emotion or the internalised form of the five regular senses; sight, hearing, taste, smell, touch.

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Single Mind Telepathy | Movement of Thought
A mind has a thought. This thought can be used in working memory, then [...]

This morning I launched a more in-depth Psychic Card guessing section to the application. (With application installs on the rise I thought it was time to add something new.) I also dig my in-game ‘News’ tab for a fast way to see the results of cards you send out to friends. A quick re-cap listing.
The [...]

Facebook applications now have a fancier about page, which include Fans. This looks pretty cool so far. Rocking to see un-expected fans sign up for Psychic Connection.
Maybe the number of fans an app has soon be displayed in the application directory. 
With this happening behind the scenes, it spurred mto add a new section in the high [...]

Finally Facebook seems to have done a tiny bit about their own time-out issues.
Each FQL call to the Facebook servers was probably queued up in order of arrival, so if my page did 2 fql calls it had to wait in line twice before it tried to render the page… which would usually timeout more [...]

Facebook always keeps you on your toes as a developer. The FQL calls are really slow the last 24hrs, so I had to update a couple pages to make max one FQL call per php page load.
A common problem is that Facebook itself is slow, due to FQL calls, php css sanitisers, image cache down, etc… and [...]

I recently released a Facebook Apple Detox application. Working through that helped me improve the Psychic Connection application.
I redid the main page to randomly show 1 friend with the application for a quick card send and 1 friend without the application for a quick card send/invite.
Built an Easy Card Sender page to just show profile [...]

The plan was to release my new application before improving Psychic Connection, but it is hard to stop tinkering. So I am improving the profile box for PC today, updated the help, filled in a lot of link title fields, improved the header,…
I am racing to get out some improved profile fbml code before I break for [...]

Just updated the main canvas page to load faster, and changed the My Friends page to Connections. The new Connection page also loads faster and tries to be more descriptive in what is going on.
Poor Facebook had image caching issues all Saturday. At least they didn’t delete all the outstanding application notifications again.
I’ll improve the [...]

Yesterday I setup my application Notify page. On this page it shows a list of people you have sent a card to, that card is still not yet answered, the person is currently a friend, and the person currently does have the application installed.
After gathering/formatting all that jazz it isn’t too bad to display each $user picture with a Notify button [...]

The timeouts seemed to happen to a few other applications yesterday. If your application calls a function from the Facebook API, and that piece times out, the message displayed still blames your application and does not mention the Facebook API being involved. Not that you can do anything to speed up their API. All the [...]

A big part of the morning was spent trouble-shooting a constant Facebook application timeout issue. I was hoping it was a Bluehost trouble, but the hosting was fine.
I think Facebook was having performance issues rendering tricky fbml pages. So I reduced some of mine to bare minimum styles to have something appear.
This did help, so I will [...]

I added two new card decks to the random card part. They look good, but I might wait another day before adding them to the actual send/profile card deck section. It seems to take a while for the Facebook servers to cache images correctly.
 One deck is astronomy space symbols, the other deck is 5 Chakras.
Also noticed the High [...]

Just activated the High Scores page. Only showing the top 8 people for now. My favorite part is that I have some regular users from Turkey. Not a whole bunch, but still, Turkey.
As a bonus through working on that page I noticed that using the float:right or float:left as a text CSS value was the [...]

Almost have the high scores page ready for action. Setup a user option privacy button so users could opt out of displaying their profile picture with profile link in the high scores page. If users have their usual Facebook privacy settings in place it already hides the image, but this is an added privacy option within [...]