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Building Facebook Applications for Dummies
There's no doubt about it -- Facebook is cool. Along with users who want to interact with friends, businesses are using Facebook as a marketing and networking tool. And if you're a Web developer, you probably know there's a demand for Facebook applications. If you have some basic knowledge of Web client technology, such as HTML, JavaScript, or CSS, and know how to use a Web programming language, Building Facebook Applications For Dummies is just what you need to start building apps for Facebook. This friendly guide helps you create applications to reach Facebook's huge audience, so you can enlarge your list of friends, introduce people to your product or service, or network with other business professionals. You'll find out how with the Facebook API Build applications that take advantage of Facebook's News Feed and Wall Migrate existing Web applications to Facebook Create mobile apps for Facebook Use Facebook's markup and query languages Get your app noticed by Facebook users A handy companion Web site includes code samples, starter applications, and other useful information about building Facebook apps. Whether you want to create applications for business purposes or just for fun, Building Facebook Applications For Dummies is the fun and easy way to get started.
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342 pages, Kindle Edition
First published June 10, 2008
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Richard Wagner
30 books1 followerRichard Wagner, the former chief architect of NetObjects ScriptBuilder and the primary author of the ECMAScript Components standard, is currently in charge of development tools at Nombas, Inc.
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July 1, 2013
Okay, let me get this straight - I'm not a web developer, although I work with some. Yeah, I run two websites - that makes me an admin, not a developer. I'm comfortable with HTML, and I worked with PHP and MySQL as a teenager earning a bit of cash by modding phpBB forums, but that doesn't mean I have the technical knowledge that's required to code an application.
I do, however, work in social media, and so I considered it to be research in to the options available, but I must admit I wasn't looking forward to reading the book. I was pleasantly surprised, though - it turns out that I basically qualify as a dummy developer.
Wagner uses PHP code, although you can also use Java, ASP.NET, ASP, ColdFusion, C++, C#, Python, Ruby On Rails and more, and many of Facebook's technologies (FBML, FQL and FBJS) are language neutral. Surprisingly, I found that I could understand the language, and in places I even found mistakes - basic ones, where he'd copied and pasted the code, then changed the opening tag but not the closing one.
The author's sense of humour shows at times, too - better still, you sometimes see it in the code. It keeps you on your toes, and it makes you pay more attention and take the lessons in. I'm not sure how much I'd get on with him as a person, though - it's interesting, with books about social media, you tend to get a good idea of what the author is like in real life. You notice the films that they like, spy on their example statuses and always, for some reason, scan the names of their friends in case you know them.
It's a good book, though a little dated as it was first published in 2008. Still, would-be developers can learn a lesson or two, but check the latest documentation first. I'm guessing lots has changed.
I do, however, work in social media, and so I considered it to be research in to the options available, but I must admit I wasn't looking forward to reading the book. I was pleasantly surprised, though - it turns out that I basically qualify as a dummy developer.
Wagner uses PHP code, although you can also use Java, ASP.NET, ASP, ColdFusion, C++, C#, Python, Ruby On Rails and more, and many of Facebook's technologies (FBML, FQL and FBJS) are language neutral. Surprisingly, I found that I could understand the language, and in places I even found mistakes - basic ones, where he'd copied and pasted the code, then changed the opening tag but not the closing one.
The author's sense of humour shows at times, too - better still, you sometimes see it in the code. It keeps you on your toes, and it makes you pay more attention and take the lessons in. I'm not sure how much I'd get on with him as a person, though - it's interesting, with books about social media, you tend to get a good idea of what the author is like in real life. You notice the films that they like, spy on their example statuses and always, for some reason, scan the names of their friends in case you know them.
It's a good book, though a little dated as it was first published in 2008. Still, would-be developers can learn a lesson or two, but check the latest documentation first. I'm guessing lots has changed.
September 20, 2011
Very simple but good enough for a noob like me.
August 31, 2018
There’s no doubt about it — Facebook is cool. Along with users who want to interact with friends, businesses are using Facebook as a marketing and networking tool. And if you’re a Web developer, you probably know there’s a demand for Facebook applications. If you have some basic knowledge of Web client technology, such as HTML, JavaScript, or CSS, and know how to use a Web programming language, Building Facebook Applications For Dummies is just what you need to start building apps for Facebook.
This friendly guide helps you create applications to reach Facebook’s huge audience, so you can enlarge your list of friends, introduce people to your product or service, or network with other business professionals. You’ll find out how to:
Work with the Facebook API
Build applications that take advantage of Facebook’s News Feed and Wall
Migrate existing Web applications to Facebook
Create mobile apps for Facebook
Use Facebook’s markup and query languages
Get your app noticed by Facebook users
A handy companion Web site includes code samples, starter applications, and other useful information about building Facebook apps. Whether you want to create applications for business purposes or just for fun, Building Facebook Applications For Dummies is the fun and easy way to get started.
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