Facebook Resources
| Up to Social Dashboard |
Essential reading list for understanding the Facebook Platform
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| General | ||||||
| A Major Difference Between Bebo and OpenSocial - Covering All That's Social All the Web | Description of the difference between Facebook Platform and Bebo's version of it | |||||
| OpenSocial and Facebook Platform side by side comparison | Comparison of features available to developers on both platforms | |||||
| Displaying Facebook-Like Search Inputs | How to make your Facebook application have a search box that mimics the look of the one in Facebook | |||||
| Facebook's News Feed Knows What You Did Last Summer | How the news feed algorithm works | |||||
| OpenSocket: Facebook now supports OpenSocial! | Demonstration of how a Facebook application can function as an OpenSocial container | |||||
| Facebook App Dev 201 App Launch Distrib | Launching, tracking, debugging, and scaling your first Facebook application | |||||
| Facebook App Dev101 (Tyler Ballance, Slide.com) | Slideshow from Slide, Inc. with the basics for developers, and a programming language evaluation | |||||
| Getting Started with Facebook Application Development | Step-by-step instructions for your first Facebook application | |||||
| Facebook Application Basics | Developer overview on how to get started with a simple application example | |||||
| Google OpenSocial: Technical Overview and Critique | An exploration of the weaknesses in the initial OpenSocial APIs from a technical perspective, relative to Facebook | |||||
| PHP | ||||||
| fBoxes 0.1 Released - idleStudios | PHP class to allow a user to persistently rearrange the elements on an FBML canvas page | |||||
| Submitting to the Facebook Application Directory | Step-by-step instructions on the correct procedures for getting a new application accepted into the directory | |||||
| Building Your First Facebook Application with CakePHP | Step-by-step instructions for integrating Facebook with the cakePHP framework | |||||
| Track your referring sites | PHP code for tracking ad networks and link exchanges | |||||
| Ruby | ||||||
| rfacebook - Facebook api for ruby and rails | Ruby library and plugin that shields developer from Facebook internals | |||||
| Liverail - Tutorial on developing a Facebook platform application with Ruby On Rails | A how-to on Facebook application development in Ruby | |||||
| Perl | ||||||
| Facebook API implementation | Perl wrapper for the Facebook API | |||||
| .NET | ||||||
| Facebook API Client Library for VB.NET | VB.NET library with sample desktop application and web-based application | |||||
| VS.NET starter kit for Nikhil Kothari's Facebook.NET | Updated starter key for .NET developers | |||||
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