It’s not often I get to speak at a conference in my home country, The Netherlands, we just don’t have that many of them! So you can imagine I’m quite thrilled to be speaking at the Kings Of Code in Amsterdam June 30th. I’ll be covering the what the social web means, how OpenSocial can [...]

So you want to use OpenSocial gadgets on your site, Google FriendConnect isn’t the right choice for you since you want to leverage your own social graph, but your site isn’t written in PHP or Java, so how do you use Apache Shindig then?
For this scenario we’ve created the meta-data interface, it allows you to [...]

Since a few people had problems figuring out how security tokens work in and between Shindig and Partuza, I thought it might be useful to write up a quick post that details how this works.
So to start off, the security token is generated in Partuza in Application/Views/gadget/gadget.php :
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$securityToken = BasicSecurityToken::createFromValues(isset($vars['person']['id']) ? $vars['person']['id'] : '0', [...]

Want to know more about OpenSocial, how to write an OpenSocial application or use Shindig to support OpenSocial on your site, but your preferred language is Russian? Then this video is for you

The 2008 Moscow GDD in numbers:
400+ attendees
30Mbit/s peak Internet traffic, which survived massive downloads of Windows security update released that morning by Microsoft
34m² [...]

The video of the session with Patrick Chanezon, Chris Chabot (me), Kevin Marks and some of our partners (Hyves, Netlog, Viadeo) @ the Google Developer Day 2008 in London is now up on Youtube.
If you just want to get to the Shindig bit, skip to the 36 min mark

The London GDD 2008 in [...]