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Unlocking Facebook A Developer's Guide to the Facebook Platform Timothy J. Stevens MEAP Release: May 2008 Softbound print: March 2009 (est.) | 275 pages ISBN: 1933988878 |
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Table of Contents, MEAP Chapters & Resources
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PART I: Getting Started
1. Introduction to Facebook Platform development - FREE 2. Finding and examining friends - AVAILABLE 3. Getting viral: Running inside Facebook - AVAILABLE Part II: Getting Specific 4. Feeds and messaging - AVAILABLE 5. Viewing and displaying photos - AVAILABLE 6. Interacting with the marketplace 7. Finding, hosting, and joining events |
Part III: The Details
8. FQL: Facebook Query Language overview 9. FBML: Facebook Markup Language overview 10. FBJS - Facebook JavaScript overview 11. Security and authentication - AVAILABLE Part IV: Appendices Appendix A: Important links and locations Appendix B: Profile Attributes - AVAILABLE |
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DESCRIPTION
Social networking sites, and Facebook in particular, are increasingly important both as part of Internet culture and the future of Internet business. The Facebook Platform APIs are the developer's opportunity to tap into the massive Facebook community, whose member base numbers around seventy million. The Facebook Platform is extremely powerful, but it's also difficult to parse. It provides a deceptively simple set of operations, but its use of custom markup, query, and scripting languages, plus its limited documentation, can throw developers for a loop.
Unlocking Facebook: A Developer's Guide to the Facebook Platform breaks down the Facebook Platform into concepts and techniques you can immediately understand and put to use. It's a from-the-ground-up tutorial and a highly readable reference designed to get you up to speed quickly. This example-rich book describes every aspect of the Platform in detail and offers functional examples using PHP and .NET. Even after reading just the first chapter, you will have working web-based and desktop-based Facebook apps and the resources to implement them in any way you wish.
Whether you aim to become famous by writing the next Scrabulous or just want to gain data for your university thesis from the site's massive social network, Unlocking Facebook will show you how to get there.
WHAT'S INSIDE
- Overview of Facebook application types
- Examples demonstrating major Facebook functionality
- Tips on application naming and design for maximum attention
- Full references on aspects including:
- FBML
- FQL
- FBJS
- Full working applications using PHP and .Net Platform clients
This book assumes you're familiar with web application design and that you have basic programming skills in PHP or C#. No prior knowledge of the Facebook Platform is required.
About the Author
Tim Stevens is a software architect with over 10 years of experience. He is a prolific writer who has penned hundreds of articles on a variety of topics, ranging from application programmer interfaces to software engineering. His work has appeared in DevSource, InformIT, CIO, Inc. and many other journals. Tim owns and maintains Digital Displacement, a blog about videogames, racing games, real racing, and related pursuits.
About the Early Access Version
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