The Facebook API is REST-based like Flickr\'s API, meaning that requests are made to Facebook Web services through terse XML messages and responses come back in kind. As is typical for this kind of API, the first step in...
I've been playing with Facebook for a few days and am impressed. This post shares some thoughts as well as introduces a new open source project, Facebook.NET, a framework optimized for developing ASP.NET-based Facebook...
I've been playing with Facebook for a few days and am impressed. This post shares some thoughts as well as introduces a new open source project, Facebook.NET, a framework optimized for developing ASP.NET-based Facebook...
I've created a quick and very, very dirty example on how to create a Coldfusion application for Facebook. There is no documentation with the project, and it comes as is where is blah blah blah, no warranty, etc. Use at your own...
First of all my goal was to use an existing web application, write a facebook integration module that communicates with the Facebook APIs, extracting some information/data and presenting them inside the existing web application.
Alright, just finished my first Facebook app. Some pretty cool functionality they've built there, and it's mostly pretty straightforward to work with, but the documentation is lagging in some areas. Here's a few things I...
Below are five tips on using Facebook's API. These techniques were all used in TripConnect's Travel Profile Application that allows Facebook users to add a travel interests to their Facebook profile. I know they work in this...
Everyone and their uncle is writing Facebook applications for the new Facebook Platform. I, too, have my own offering, written by myself and the other OpenHive guys: Bookshelf. Even though the platform was released almost a...
Interfacing with Facebook's servers is pretty hard, considering how seemingly trivial the interface is. Obviously the almost total lack of documentation is mostly to blame for this, but some of it is just common bugs that have...
I’ve messed around with the API and it really is easy to get started. You can use a plethora of different development languages but I obviously used PHP, more specifically CakePHP. Here’s how you can easily start a Facebook...
With the ref-url construction, Facebook will visit your URL and cache it. You can call their API to refresh the url when you would like. With the superior ref-handle construction, you pass (handle, value) pairs to Facebook to...
Facebook, as you've probably noticed, is everywhere. And with that ubiquity comes a massive audience just waiting for your web app. Whether you're looking to make things easier for your current users, or you have the perfect...
I recently tried to get my hands dirty with Facebook application development platform. I know there are a bunch of resources available on the web to help you in the process, but when I was trying get my tiny app to work, I...
Continuously reinventing the wheel in applications development can be time-consuming and ineffective. For this reason, many development frameworks have sprung up with the intention of assisting programmers by providing a...
I'm going to show you how to interface Python to Apache HBase using Facebook's Thrift package. Hbase is a documented oriented database which is very similar to Google's BigTable (in fact its more or less a clone of BigTable as...
This article is a complete tutorial for building a simple Facebook application in Ruby On Rails and should allow you to hit the ground running. We are going to create a recipes sharing application for Facebook from scratch.
Here at t-bot, we just finished porting a part of one of our existing Rails applications to utilize the new Facebook platform. It took about a week, and despite the decent documentation for the Facebook platform, there was...
I've been playing with Facebook for a few days and am impressed. This post shares some thoughts as well as introduces a new open source project, Facebook.NET, a framework optimized for developing ASP.NET-based Facebook...
