Facebook development (1st ed )

With more than 250,000,000 active users, Facebook is the world's #1 social networking platform. But developing successful Facebook applications presents unique challenges, both technical and nontechnical. Now, two of the world's most experienced Facebook developers show you exactly how to meet those challenges. Essential Facebook Development offers insider guidance and up-to-the-minute best practices for the entire application lifecycle: design, coding, testing, distribution, post-launch monitoring, and metricseven application marketing.

Using extensive real-world examples, John Maver and Cappy Popp reveal why some Facebook applications succeed brilliantly while others fail. Next, they walk through using every major component of the Facebook platform to build a complete application that has already proven successful in the marketplace. Maver and Popp thoroughly cover Facebook's most important new features, including Profile and Facebook Connect. They also provide extensive information available in no other bookfrom advanced application tuning guidance to adapting Facebook apps for the hot new Bebo platform.

Whether you're developing your first social networking application or you've been doing it for years, Essential Facebook Development will help you get better resultsevery step of the way.

Coverage includes

• Thorough, up-to-the-minute introductions to Facebook's current architecture, integration points, and development technologies
• Successful Facebook applicationsand what makes them successful
• What every developer must know about Facebook's Terms of Use
• Creating effective Facebook application infrastructure, one step at a time
• Adding support for profiles, canvas pages, and messaging
• Incorporating JavaScript in your Facebook applications with FBJS
• Integrating Facebook into external sites with Facebook Connect and Facebook JavaScript Library
• Efficiently debugging Facebook applications
• Spreading, monitoring, and tuning applications after they're in production

Preface

Part I: Introduction to Facebook and Applications

Chapter 1: Facebook Applications: The Basics

Chapter 2: Making Great Applications

Chapter 3: Platform Architecture Overview

Chapter 4: Platform Developer Tools

Chapter 5: Facebook Terms of Service and Application Programs

Part II: Developing Applications

Chapter 6: The Basics of Creating Applications

Chapter 7: Building the Canvas

Chapter 8: Updating the Profile

Chapter 9: Feed Stories, Feed Forms, and Templates

Chapter 10: Publishers, Notifications, Requests, and E-mails

Chapter 11: FBJS and Mock-AJAX and Flash

Part III: Integrating Facebook into an External Web Site

Chapter 12: Facebook JavaScript Library

Chapter 13: Facebook Connect

Part IV: Post Launch

Chapter 14: Monitoring, Testing, and Tuning

Chapter 15: Spreading and Monetizing Applications

Chapter 16: Best Practices

Part V: Appendices

Appendix A: Resources

Appendix B: Beta Features