Archive for the ‘Facebook’ Category

CNN/Business 2.0 picks up on the Facebook app buzz

Minor mention of our Visual CD Rack, a sister app of our bigger bookshelf application…
Read the article

Using mocks at the early stage of FB app development

Developing applications for Facebook is a pain. The tunnel approach helps a lot to ease that pain but even then I prefer to start a FB app as a regular application, polish the logic, and then convert it to the Facebook one by adding FBML and such. At the early stages of the development I [...]

Routing to the initial action after facebook application install

Some facebook applications might have multiple entries. For example, a user might be adding an application (action – new) or replying to an invitation (action – reply, param – id). Since the UI for Facebook application configuration allows to provide only static Post-Add URL it might seem like there is no way to route users [...]

Indentifying users who just installed your facebook apps

Sometimes it is useful to do some action on a Facebook user right after your application has been installed by the user. For example, you might want to push some default FBML to user’s profile in case he does not complete the action you expect him to do after installation. Facebook application configuration allows to [...]