Essential Facebook Development - Build Successful Applications for the Facebook Platform: Build Successful Applications for the Facebook Platform

John J. Maver, Cappy Popp

Addison-Wesley Professional

2009

480 páginas

16h 0m

ISBN-13: 9780321637987

Using extensive real-world examples, John Maver and Cappy Popp reveal why some Facebook applications succeed brilliantly while others fail. Next, they walk through building a complete application using every major component of the Facebook platform. Maver and Popp thoroughly cover Facebook’s most important new features, including Facebook Connect, and provide extensive information available nowhere else–from measuring application success to monetization. Coverage includes

- Thorough introductions to Facebook’s current architecture, integration points, and development technologies
- Discussion of successful Facebook applications–and what makes them successful
- What every developer must know about Facebook’s Terms of Service
- Creating an effective application infrastructure
- Creating canvas pages with FBML and IFrames
- Adding support for profiles, application tabs, and messaging
- Incorporating JavaScript into Facebook applications with FBJS
- Integrating Facebook into external sites with Facebook Connect and the Facebook JavaScript Client Library
- Debugging techniques for Facebook applications
- Spreading, monitoring, and tuning applications