Essential Facebook Development: Build Successful Applications for the Facebook Platform http://www.essentialfacebook.com The latest information about developing applications for the Facebook platform Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:40:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Source code for the Compliments Application and Code Listings http://www.essentialfacebook.com/2009/11/19/source-code-for-the-compliments-application-and-code-listings/ http://www.essentialfacebook.com/2009/11/19/source-code-for-the-compliments-application-and-code-listings/#comments Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:38:26 +0000 John Maver http://www.essentialfacebook.com/?p=26

This zip file contains the Compliments application source code and listings for each chapter of the book.

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Cappy wrote a great summary of Facebook’s roadmap for 2009 over on the Thought Labs blog. It talks about changes to the stream, profiles boxes, platform policies, and the Open Graph API.

Again, a huge shift is coming in how applications work on Facebook. We should have updated information for readers of our book on how to take advantage of these changes in their applications soon.

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Appendix A – Resources

This appendix serves as a quick reference for important resources or commonly accessed URLs related to developing for the Facebook Platform. Additionally, the most important beta features Facebook has released are described.

Links

These links are grouped into links on Facebook, links related to developer tools outside of Facebook, and other external sites that provide good references for Facebook developers.

Facebook

Facebook provides a lot of documentatiooits wiki and other pages, which can make it difficult to find specific items. We believe that these are the URLs that developers will access frequently:

Developer Tools

These websites contain tools that enable or assist with Facebook development that wecover in this book:

APC – http://php.net/apc
Firebug - http://www.getfirebug.com
Firebug Lite – http://getfirebug.com/lite.html
Memcached – http://www.danga.com/memcached
Web Developer Toolbar – http://chrispederick.com/work/web-developer
YSlow – http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow
YUI Library – http://developer.yahoo.com/yui

Facebook News

These websites provide news updates for developers and users:

All Facebook – http://allfacebook.com
Developer News – http://developers.facebook.com/news.php
Facebook News – http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php
Inside Facebook – http://www.insidefacebook.com

Please let us know of any other key resources you have found and we will update this page.

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