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Neil Young CV Blog includes code sharing, latest projects, media and social posts.

Book Chapter for Facebook Application Development : Learn By Video

Posted on December 2, 2011 by Neil Young

It has been a crazy couple of months! In October I finally sorted myself out and have purchased my own property and I have also been working on some large scale projects including an international iPad optimised website for HBO! Continue reading →

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Facebook’s New Timeline!

Posted on September 27, 2011 by Neil Young

My view on Facebooks new timeline feature. What does it mean for peoples profile pages ? Continue reading →

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Flash On The Beach 2011

Posted on September 17, 2011 by Neil Young

I did not know what to expect when my name was drawn out of a hat to go to the popular flash conference based in sunny Brighton from the 11th September to the 14th September. I first thought, well I … Continue reading →

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Two Way Encryption Using MySQL 5 & The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)

Posted on August 4, 2011 by Neil Young

Recently I was asked to implement two way encryption security for data that we gathered on a campaign, which we stored in a MySQL table running on one of our servers. Continue reading →

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Emulating Facebook’s Dialogue Using Jquery UI Dialogues

Posted on July 27, 2011 by Neil Young

When working on applications for Facebook one thing that I really wanted to be able to do is to have more control over the javascript dialogues to display our content to the user. Continue reading →

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Integrating Twitter search into your WordPress blog

Posted on July 11, 2011 by Neil Young

Recently we had to add a Twitter stream to one of our Facebook tabs for a campaign. I thought I would share with you php code that uses a short code in your Wordpress post and dynamically creates a twitter search panel based on a search term you specify. Continue reading →

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Facebook Video Chat

Posted on July 7, 2011 by Neil Young

Yesterday afternoon Facebook announced the new Video Chat functionality that has been hotly anticipated following the introduction of Google+… Continue reading →

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Google Plus – The Next Generation Social Network?

Posted on June 30, 2011 by Neil Young

I was lucky enough to get an invite to use the Google+ Project thanks to Craig Beswetherick which is Google’s answer to the Facebook platform and my first impressions overall are very good. When Google social tool Buzz came out … Continue reading →

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Image Resizing With PHP – EXIF Orientation Fix

Posted on June 30, 2011 by Neil Young

I have been working on a project recently that has incorporated an upload mechanic for images uploaded to our website. The images are then resized into a dimension box that I pass to a function. This then builds out these images from the original uploaded. Continue reading →

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Essential WordPress Plugins

Posted on June 16, 2011 by Neil Young

Recently I have become a big fan of the Wordpress Framework, its ease of use, extendability and flexibility make it one of the leaders in the open source cms community. I have written this blog post to talk through my favourite plugins that I have used with Wordpress. Continue reading →

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