My First Facebook Application
Well I thought it’d be interesting to have a look at Facebook for developing an application - give that it’s already got a huge userbase.
I won’t go into details about the project that I’m wanting to set up eventually - as today was just about having a little gander at the API and working out what could be done.
The facebook stuff is rather complex - and I’m not really a programmer - so most of that went over my head. I did find a good site which explained how to create a facebook application in 5 minutes. Well, whilst not strictly a facebook application (as all it does is run inside facebook rather than using the API) I had it set up quite fast, and can be viewed (and added) at http://apps.facebook.com/chaostheory/.
It doesn’t do much, and I doubt it’ll ever do more - but it was a nice test for the purposes.
Now it’s on to actually looking at the API and starting to do something that actually uses it 
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By mark, November 9, 2007 @ 12:44 am
Hi! I am keen to create my first FB app too. Only, I dont have a webserver. How do I get around this? Any help is appreciated.
By Andy, November 9, 2007 @ 10:01 am
Mark,
I think the best thing would be to get some free space. Most ISPs will offer free webspace with their subscriptions, if not there’ll be other sites that provide it. I use http://www.bitfolk.com and have a Virtual Server (for £8 a month). It’s a basic setup, but really good for me (running GNU/Linux ubuntu-server). If you only want to create web applications though, go with something that just provides you with web-access.