Assistments ISP First Post
Hi! My name is Paul Kinsky. I'm a Computer Science major at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, WPI.I'm working on a project for several professors at integrate a to extend a piece of educational software...
View ArticleAssisments Facebook App Users
The potential users for our Facebook app fall into three groups:. Here's some examples of how each group could use our app.students:The student logs onto facebook and sees a private notification...
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Progress with Facebook API
I've been tinkering with the facebook API. So far, I have working versions of: Users can login and logout through my page.Send requests from my app to registered users. Once issued they can be:updated...
View ArticleIssues with ROR and FB
I've been having a lot of trouble getting rails to work with facebook. They only support PHP and javascript SDKs, so I'm going to try using a ruby gem I found that integrates javascript and rails....
View ArticleProject Outline
In the past few years there has been an industry-wide trend towards Facebook integration. It can even be seen on WPI’s JobFinder website. Essentially, the goal is to let users of your website engage...
View ArticleWelp
I was talking with the author of the fbgraph gem about how to do something, at least I ended up getting him to add it to his TODO list:https://github.com/nov/fb_graph/issues/126Go go gadget unsupported...
View ArticleEverything I need to do in Ruby, but in PHP
I've had 9/10ths of this working for about a week, I've just been stuck getting it into ruby. I'm just going to post some code for sending notifications, getting a user's notifications, and deleting...
View ArticleAppRequest functionality added to fb_graph gem
The developer of the fb_graph facebook graph api gem helped me out by adding the ability to post app-generated requests! Thanks, Nov Matake!(https://github.com/nov/fb_graph/wiki/App-Request)
View ArticlePHP and JS Guidlines for FB: Acronyms!
I've put together a guide on the php and javascript sdks for facebook. It mostly consists of links to facebook's own documentation, which is amazing. This needs to be cleaned up, but these links show...
View ArticleAssistments API
We've decided that the best way to go forwards is to work with Assistments as a service. We'll be extending the existing API to do what we need, instead of trying to add new functionality directly to...
View ArticleLcAlg
I've made an algorithm that transforms a 3d model (a mesh of triangles) into the autoCAD files neccesary to laser-cut a set of triangles and angled connectors that, when assembled, form a real life...
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Source Code and Documentation
First, I want to say that I’ve open-sourced LcAlg, my program for generating laser-cut polygonal sculptures from 3d models. There’s a link a little bit farther down on the page if that’s what you came...
View ArticleAssistments API finally working
I just got my hello world assistments api call working. Awesome.
View ArticleAPI progress
As of now, I've made a test api call that gets a database object, saves data to it, and then reads other data from it. I've also managed to create 'watcher' database objects via API and retrieve data...
View ArticleShare pages with friends
Like shares with all, send allows you to choose recipients from among your friends. http://www.pkinsky.com/askhelp.html
View ArticleAssociating facebook and ASM accounts
Here's how it's done:http://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/registration/This pops up an iframe that has in it a form prefilled with your facebook data. It also supports custom fields. You can...
View ArticleFacebook Auth cookbook page
Facebook AuthenticationOverviewMost actions on Facebook require some sort of authentication token. For example, sending a request for information about a user without the relevant auth token returns...
View ArticleFacebook Graph API cookbook page
Working with the Graph APIOverviewThe graph API is a collection of RESTful web services facebook provides. Using the graph api, you can publish, interact with or create almost anything in facebook....
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Laser cut paper structures with generated supports
I've been working on various iterations of this program since my junior year of college. It's gone through some significant changes in that time.Acrylic Triangles and edges. Horrible toxic solvent...
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