Tag Archives: Facebook Applications

My First Published Facebook Application: ADOOGA Contest of the Day

Alright, as promised, it’s time for me to reveal my first published Facebook application: ADOOGA Contest of the Day. I’ve started several applications and built many of them to 90% completion, but Vanderbilt’s coursework usually found a way to interfere with my production schedule and forced me to table release until later.
The last 10% [...]

Facebook.NET Workaround – Debug FBML on the Localhost with Dynamic DNS

Just a quick post for today, but a valuable one nonetheless. I have mentioned before how I prefer developing Facebook.NET applications using the Iframe method of implementation, namely because I didn’t think it was possible to debug FBML implementations on the localhost.
Cameron, an AjaxNinja reader, found the following comment on Nikhil’s blog, which explains how [...]

Social Network Platforms & APIs: Why are developers putting all of their eggs in one basket?

photo credits: woodsy
Today I read another one of Dave McClure’s entries regarding his Graphing Social Patterns conference; Dave’s post was about Facebook Application Monetization, a subject that I’ve covered on a couple of occasions.
One of Dave’s passages struck a particular chord with me:
in the discussion, one of the key items we cover is how Facebook [...]

5 Facebook.NET Development Tips

It’s about time for an update on Facebook Application with ASP.NET, using Nikhil Kothari’s Facebook API wrapper for ASP.NET, Facebook.NET. If you want to read about why I’m using Facebook.NET instead of the Facebook Control Toolkit then click here.
I’ve spent a lot of time developing my Facebook application this weekend and I have a few [...]