Copasetic Flow

Writing a Facebook Connect application can be done in about half an hour using the newly updated Javascript API. No more server side code required! Here are the steps: 1. Setup a Facebook applicaiton Go to http://www.facebook.com/#!/developers/ and click on the 'Set Up New App' button to setup a new application. On the about page, enter the application's name and a short description. On the 'Web Site' tab, enter the URL of the web domain that will serve the web page you will put your login box on. Copy the 'Application ID' from this same tab. Click on 'Save Changes'. 2. Add the Facebook javascript library to your web page Place the following div and script on your web page. The div won't actually display anything, it's just to bring in the Facebook code. I place it at the bottom of my web pages: 3. Initialize the facebook library with your application ID Execute the following line of code somewhere in your page's javascript. ...

I've been porting the ham radio practice exams to facebook lately. The process for this wasn't entirely obvious to me and there were quite a few issues. This series of posts will try to make the process more obvious and highlight the issues I hit so you can avoid them. For now, I'll just point you at a list of the posts that will slowly flush out and my list of stumbleupon bookmarks I accumulated while doing research for the project. Table of Contents Facebook on Google App Engine Resources

Table of Contents Introduction Setup Authentication Flow Inviting Friends Appendix A: StumbleUpon Bookmarks