Facebook Application Development

Book Description

Wrox’s Facebook Application Development is a hands-on guide to understanding the Facebook Platform and building applications on top of it. The book takes a practical hands-on approach to demonstrating the many components that are available to developers to create feature rich applications and mixes expert guidance with detailed examples to deliver a reference for not just the developer looking to build his or her first Facebook application, but the developer who is looking to extend and enhance the one he or she has already built.  Topics covered include:

• Working with Facebook Markup Language (FBML)
• Facebook API Requests and Responses and Method Definitions
• Querying Facebook with FQL
• API Keys, Auth Tokens and Sessions
• Application Layout and Flow
• Using Automated and Scheduled Tasks
• Understanding obscure errors and notification
• Advanced configuration and performance tuning

and more.  Complete source code available at wrox.com

Product Description

• The wildly popular Facebook social networking platform has published an open Application Programming Interface (API) and developers are eating it up--60,000 signed up to use it in the first few days; with this API, any programmer can create applications and new features for Facebook
• Explores and explains the components available to programmers, including working with Facebook Markup Language (FBML), querying Facebook with FQL, application layout and flow, advanced configuration and performance tuning, and more
• Businesses such as NBC, Yahoo!, Red Bull, Forbes, and the Washington Post are building branded applications to reach the growing Facebook community