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Facebook App Dev 101 workshop: Intro to Platform / Building Your First App - Tyler Ballance, Slide.com & Ari Steinberg, Facebook @ Graphing Social Patterns Oct 2007TRANSCRIPT
Facebook App Development 101 Intro to the Platform/Building
your first Facebook App Professor R. Tyler Ballance Slide, Inc.
[email protected] the Professor I work at Slide, Inc.Meet the
Professor I write Facebook apps.Meet Ari Works on the
platformFacebook App Dev 101 Introduction to the Facebook Platform
Facebook Developer Resources Platform Client Libraries Dissecting
Why are you awesome? LUNCH! Building an application Testing your
application Metrics?Introduction to the PlatformWelcome to the
Facebook PlatformWelcome to the Facebook Platform Dave McClure is
attending Graphing Social Tony Hsieh left the group Tony Hsieh For
President David Young added a new video to a group. Adora Cheung
added FunWall Kara Swisher and Mark Zuckerberg ended their
relationship. Lee Lorenzen plans to attend Widget Summit Kevin Ho
is feeling graphical. Adora and Daniel Kim are now friends. Mike
Huang updated his prole. He edited his interests and prole picture.
Max Levchin updated his Top Friends Will Liu is no longer listed as
single. Jared Fleiser has thrown a sheep at Sonya Chawla Kasey
Kirkham added new photos. Nik Gandhy wrote on Lennisse Ambrizs w
Keith Rabois attended CommunityNext Platform A black blue box of
social informationDeveloper ResourcesDeveloper Resources Test
Console http://developers.facebook.com/tools.php Bugzilla
http://bugs.developers.facebook.com/ Developer Application
http://www.facebook.com/developers/ Developer Wiki
http://wiki.developers.facebook.comSubscribe to Platform
FeedsReport good bugsIRC ChannelTechnically Speaking How do you
communicate with Facebook? XML JSON HTTP RequestIs Zuckerberg my
friend? XML Response NO 627205543 412 bytes 40 {um: NO!} JSON
Response 53 bytes
[{quot;uid1quot;:quot;627205543quot;,quot;uid2quot;:quot;4quot;,quot;are_friendsquot;:false}]Friends
UIDs 697 friends JSON XML 16KB 44KB SELECT uid1 FROM friend WHERE
uid2 = 627205543Facebook Client LibrariesPHP Cons Pros Super-easy
to use. Only works with XML (like BASIC, but with dollar signs)
Written in PHP Ofcially supported Conducive to Wider variety of
spaghetti code hosting optionsPython Cons Pros Shared hosts dont
tend Very well written API to support Python Uses simplejson by
Supports JSON/XML default by default Easily integrated Slightly
larger learning with Django curve for beginners Good enough for
SlideRuby Cons Pros Difcult to move from Scales well PHP to Ruby
Bends the rules on how Ruby on Rails can be to write RESTful code
very clean Easy to write poorly Rails encourages performing code
automated testing. Not quite conforming to Very Web 2.0 Ruby coding
standards.NET Cons Pros A variety of existing IIS, or mod_mono
UserControls Some aspects Usable from C#, or require .NET 3.5
VB.NET Very enterprisey and Tight integration complicated with
Visual Studio LINQ support Tied to XML with a noose Very well
documentedOther Libraries ColdFusion Perl Java C++More Cons
Platform moves too quickly Marketplace API Status API Data Store
API Very little shared coding standards Everybodys reinventing the
wheelDissecting Why are you awesome?What it is yo. Owl ==
AWESOMEPost-Install Owl Call to action Social contextPost-Install
fb:dashboard fb:action fb:prole-pic regular form fb:name regular
linksChangin State fb:successNotify. Rinse. Repeat. fb:notif-pageIN
UR PROFILEZ fb:pronoun auto-generated OMFG LAMEIN UR PROFILEZ
fb:name fb:prole-pic Mock AJAXdIN UR PROFILEZ fb:errorZee
CodesBuilding your first applicationTesting your Facebook
applicationUse basic unit testing Application Logic phpunitMetrics,
engagement and fun numbersClosure