Mustafa Abusalah Blog

I was trying to invoke the below URL: https://api.linkedin.com/v1/people/~:(id,first-name,last-name,industry,skills)?oauth2_access_token=blabla When I make the call directly from the browser it works fine, but if I call it using  cfhttp  request I got 404 Not Found error. The issue is most likely related to url encoding, kindly advise how send the request using cfhttp or another method without being enforced to be urlencoded, I have replaced the cfhttp tag with the custom cf_http method as below: Coldfusion: Custom cfhttp tag : Annoyed by the limitations of the default cfhttp tag i have written a custom cf_http tag that overcomes some of the limitations. Well any co...

A question came to my mind today when I saw a new message on Facebook indicating that to keep Facebook free, customized ads based on members interests will be shown on our profiles or dashboard. Today as well I saw a suggested list of people that I might know on LinkedIn. One of them is a friend of mine that we have never exchanged an email or even connected on social media. This friend has 0 friends on his friends list so there is no common people between us. Same question came to my mind again. How the social media and search engines are able to make this semantic networks! Google Search uses our search history to show results that might be of our interests, it also use the same information to show related ads. Google is a free search that we use and they make money out of the ads. It is a mutual benefit, we search for free and they make money from ads we see based on our search keywords. Same scenario in Social Media, so Facebook and LinkedIn, and other Social N...