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I’ve been mildly interested in the Facebook API since its release. Heck, I even wrote down a few ideas of applications that might prove handy. My most recent thought was, “hey, I bet a ton of my Facebook friends have websites that I don’t even know about!” So instead of clicking each of the 100+ profiles individually I considered writing a web app that would retrieve the information for me.

Sadly, after exploring the API documentation, it doesn’t seem like this is possible. I can get my hands on all kinds of information — name, address, status, interests, etc. — but there is no mention of having access to the “website” field. Bah!

I could probably look into this matter further since my research up to this point consists of a quick skim and CTRL+F-ing the documentation… but for now I shall put the idea on hold.

I’ve been using Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 to write most of my web-related code because of the nice code-highlighting and uploading capabilities. When I found out today that I could check out Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 (essentially Dreamweaver 9, if you were to follow the previous version numbering scheme) I figured I’d give it a shot.

The feature that has me really excited is the integrated validator and especially the “Browser Compatibility Check.” This thing is awesome, although I can’t say for sure yet how thorough it is. Essentially it checks the current document (or whole site) for any problems that might arise in certain browsers. What’s even more brilliant is that it gives a detailed description of what the problem is. I tested it out on one of the sites I’ve created and it found the IE6 3px text jog bug. This piece of software definitely has potential…