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I’ll show you how to get the monthly active users of your Facebook application via FQL with the help of PHP…

Ehh wait, what’s FQL?

“Facebook Query Language, or FQL, enables you to use a SQL-style interface to query the data exposed by the Graph API. It provides for some advanced features not available in the Graph API, including batching multiple queries into a single call.”

More information: Facebook FQL reference
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The Internet Explorer (IE) is acting strange when it comes to transparency, for instance transparent iframes like the retweet button from tweetmeme. I’m using the great Tweetmeme Plugin for WordPress, but the problem with the transparency appears no matter which way of implementation you are using.

In IE 6, 7 and 8 it looks like this (ugly white background):

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WordPress is converting two dashes, called double dash, (“–”) into a en dash (“–”) automatically. It’s possible to hack the formatting.php to prevent this, but this is much more easy: (continue reading…)

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It’s not possible to create a backup from a MySQL database with phpMyAdmin which is bigger than 2 MB. If you are running MySQL on a Linux based system, try this: (continue reading…)

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WordPress strips / deletes automatically all <p> and <br> tags. If you want to have more than one line break, paragraph or spacing between two lines you’ll get problems. (continue reading…)

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