{"id":708665,"date":"2010-04-04T08:49:17","date_gmt":"2010-04-04T12:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"15560 at http:\/\/www.precentral.net"},"modified":"2010-04-04T08:49:17","modified_gmt":"2010-04-04T12:49:17","slug":"facebook-1-1-6-beta-teaches-devrelations-team-a-thing-or-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/708665","title":{"rendered":"Facebook 1.1.6 beta teaches DevRelations team a thing or two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/feedproxy.google.com\/sites\/precentral.net\/files\/articleimages\/Jason%20Robitaille\/2010\/04\/beta_2010-03-04_044638.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" vspace=\"5\" hspace=\"10\" height=\"300\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.precentral.net\/sites\/precentral.net\/files\/articleimages\/Jason%20Robitaille\/2010\/04\/thumb_350_beta_2010-03-04_044638.png?resize=200%2C300\" class=\"lightbox2\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>One of the greatest parts of knowing that the Palm Developer Relations team are the ones working on the Facebook app, is hearing their comments on development.<\/p>\n<p>A few days ago, Palm updated Facebook on their beta feed to version 1.1.6. On the Palm Developer Center Blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/developer.palm.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/facebook-116\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+pdnblog+%28Palm+Developer+Connection+Blog%29\">the team posted an interesting article on it<\/a>. Evidently, there were 2 central issues they discovered during development, that could prove useful for third party developers to learn from.<\/p>\n<p>The first issue was that if service requests don&#8217;t get assigned to a variable, there&#8217;s a chance the javascript garbage collector might scoop it off into oblivion. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.incaseofstairs.com\/2010\/04\/garbage-collection-gotchas-in-webos\/\">Kevin Decker has written up a very informative article<\/a> discussing a solution that is not only effective, but also memory efficient.<\/p>\n<p>The second issue has to do with multi-stage applications and reminds developers that some old habits, like referencing the document directly, or using prototype to get a document&#8217;s element, may cause trouble. The team found a few workable alternatives that will hopefully save other developers some time debugging.<\/p>\n<p>The Developer Relations team assist developers with issues on a daily basis. Their work on the Facebook app has been a testament to that. Makes one wonder what the future of the Facebook app may hold.<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Precentralnet?a=SVakekwzZCw:ST8BBXRGT9k:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Precentralnet?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Precentralnet?a=SVakekwzZCw:ST8BBXRGT9k:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Precentralnet?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Precentralnet?a=SVakekwzZCw:ST8BBXRGT9k:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Precentralnet?i=SVakekwzZCw:ST8BBXRGT9k:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Precentralnet?a=SVakekwzZCw:ST8BBXRGT9k:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Precentralnet?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Precentralnet\/~4\/SVakekwzZCw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the greatest parts of knowing that the Palm Developer Relations team are the ones working on the Facebook app, is hearing their comments on development. A few days ago, Palm updated Facebook on their beta feed to version 1.1.6. On the Palm Developer Center Blog, the team posted an interesting article on it. 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