Engineering - AllFacebook http://allfacebook.com The Unofficial Facebook Blog - Facebook News, Facebook Marketing, Facebook Business, and More! Copyright 2013 Tue, 21 May 2013 22:48:18 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Facebook Software Engineer Josh Wiseman Joins The Social + Capital Partnership Facebook Software Engineer Josh Wiseman, who has contributed to pretty much every aspect of the site — Timeline, chat, photos, videos, and more — has left the company for an engineer-in-residence position with The Social + Capital Partnership, according to AllThingsD.

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]]> Justin Lafferty http://allfacebook.com/josh-wiseman-social-capital_b117010#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/josh-wiseman-social-capital_b117010 http://allfacebook.com/?p=117010 Wed, 08 May 2013 17:42:32 +0000 Report: Facebook To Open Temporary Vancouver Office To Recruit, Train Engineering Talent Facebook will set up a temporary office in Vancouver, British Columbia, where it will conduct “boot camps” to train recent software engineering graduates for full-time positions with the social network, according to a report in The Vancouver Sun.

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]]> David Cohen http://allfacebook.com/temporary-vancouver-office_b113136#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/temporary-vancouver-office_b113136 http://allfacebook.com/?p=113136 Mon, 18 Mar 2013 12:21:02 +0000 Raytheon Celebrates National Engineers Week With Facebook Contest As a salute to National Engineers Week (Feb. 17 to 23), Raytheon launched a Facebook campaign to bring engineering into the everyday lives of K-12 students. Through Build It Better, students can earn money for their classrooms by using the application on Raytheon’s MathMovesU Facebook page to engineer a better flow for an aspect of their school.

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]]> Justin Lafferty http://allfacebook.com/raytheon-build-it-better_b111125#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/raytheon-build-it-better_b111125 http://allfacebook.com/?p=111125 Tue, 19 Feb 2013 19:13:36 +0000 The Inside Scoop On Facebook’s Hiring Practices Ever wondered if you have what it takes to work for Facebook (even if you’re not applying for a job as the company’s global head of diversity)? Some members from Facebook’s recruiting team went on Reddit for an AMA (Ask Me Anything) session, answering questions about what it’s like to work at Facebook and what kinds of applicants they look for.

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]]> Justin Lafferty http://allfacebook.com/reddit-facebook-ama_b110738#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/reddit-facebook-ama_b110738 http://allfacebook.com/?p=110738 Wed, 13 Feb 2013 19:11:53 +0000 Facebook Opens First Non-U.S. Engineering Center In London, With Focus On Mobile London called, and Facebook listened: The social network Tuesday opened its first engineering center outside of the U.S., with a focus on mobile.

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]]> David Cohen http://allfacebook.com/engineering-center-london-mobile_b102218#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/engineering-center-london-mobile_b102218 http://allfacebook.com/?p=102218 Tue, 16 Oct 2012 11:37:42 +0000 Facebook’s Mobile Advertising Interface Was Built By Interns Interns at Facebook are responsible for much more than getting coffee and making copies. They make valuable contributions. Peter Cottle, a graduate student at the University of California, Berkleley, and future Facebook engineer, reflected on his internship with the social network, writing that himself and another intern were responsible for most of the work on the site’s first mobile advertising interface.

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]]> Justin Lafferty http://allfacebook.com/mobile-interface-interns_b101953#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/mobile-interface-interns_b101953 http://allfacebook.com/?p=101953 Thu, 11 Oct 2012 15:48:15 +0000 Facebook Campaign Connects Students To Mars Although most of us probably won’t step foot on Mars, one Facebook campaign is utilizing the red planet and the social network to get kids excited about science, technology, engineering, and math. Through Raytheon Company’s Mission to Mars, students can explore the planet virtually and interact with Facebook to earn grants.

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]]> Justin Lafferty http://allfacebook.com/raytheon-mission-to-mars_b99835#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/raytheon-mission-to-mars_b99835 http://allfacebook.com/?p=99835 Mon, 17 Sep 2012 15:38:44 +0000 Facebook Tests Makeover For Messages Facebook really wants messages to be like email. The social network announced Wednesday that it is testing some changes to make its messages feature look a little more like email.

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]]> Justin Lafferty http://allfacebook.com/facebook-makeover-messages_b97973#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/facebook-makeover-messages_b97973 http://allfacebook.com/?p=97973 Wed, 22 Aug 2012 16:44:14 +0000 Facebook To Hire Engineering Team In London Facebook announced that it will hire a new engineering team in London, which will be led by Software Engineer Philip Su, who relocated to the central part of the 2012 Summer Olympic Games host city.

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]]> David Cohen http://allfacebook.com/engineering-london_b95415#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/engineering-london_b95415 http://allfacebook.com/?p=95415 Tue, 24 Jul 2012 21:34:50 +0000 Facebook VP Of Infrastructure Engineering Jay Parikh On Outages, Requests For Servers Every network experiences outages, and Facebook is no exception. Vice President of Infrastructure Engineering Jay Parikh spoke with CNET about how the social network handles outages, and how he handles requests for more servers.

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]]> Jackie Cohen http://allfacebook.com/facebook-shows-off-expanding-seattle-digs_b85549#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/facebook-shows-off-expanding-seattle-digs_b85549 http://allfacebook.com/?p=85549 Thu, 12 Apr 2012 19:42:32 +0000 Facebook Livestream Will Pep Talk Engineering Students An organization called Stay With It has teamed up with Facebook to livestream an event on Wednesday encouraging engineering students to stick with the program.

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]]> Jennifer Moire http://allfacebook.com/facebook-livestream-students_b81284#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/facebook-livestream-students_b81284 http://www.allfacebook.com/?p=81284 Fri, 09 Mar 2012 16:09:10 +0000 How Facebook Fights Phishing Emails: DMARC Once reported by the media, any new attempt to impersonate Facebook in an email requesting information from recipients seems to fade off the radar.

That might be the result of an open-source technology called DMARC that Facebook Engineer Michael Adkins has been working with since 2010, in partnership with others.

He explains in a blog post on the social network:

DMARC allows a domain owner to request aggregated, anonymized data from mailbox providers about email that appears to be from their domain.

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]]> Jackie Cohen http://allfacebook.com/how-facebook-fights-phishing-emails-dmarc_b75937#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/how-facebook-fights-phishing-emails-dmarc_b75937 http://www.allfacebook.com/?p=75937 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:00:37 +0000 ALERT: Former Facebook Engineer Reveals 30 Bugs Any undertaking with the scale and complexity of Facebook is bound to have its share of bugs, and a former Facebook engineer posted a detailed list of more than 30 of them.

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]]> David Cohen http://allfacebook.com/alert-former-facebook-engineer-discloses-over-30-bugs_b73250#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/alert-former-facebook-engineer-discloses-over-30-bugs_b73250 http://www.allfacebook.com/?p=73250 Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:33:12 +0000 Facebook Built Most Of Timeline In Six Months Facebook’s new timeline profile took about six months to build, from the initial infrastructure-review meeting to successfully turning on the 100 percent back-end load test.

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]]> David Cohen http://allfacebook.com/facebook-timeline-time_b72832#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/facebook-timeline-time_b72832 http://www.allfacebook.com/?p=72832 Thu, 05 Jan 2012 18:07:07 +0000