On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 9:20 AM, Dave Hodgkinson <daveh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 22 May 2010, at 05:53, Zbigniew Lukasiak wrote: > >> Hi there, >> >> It seems that there is a huge demand for Facebook applications. At >> least this is what my colleague is trying to convince me about, but >> since I have already been approached by a guy interested in this and I >> have already written one app - I have seen all the craze of a gold >> rush in the Facebook programming forums, it is not that hard to do :) >> Are there any Perl programmers freelancing in this market? How do you >> host your apps? It is mostly about simple one-page thingies - so the >> up-front cost of setting up your own virtual machine to run your own >> apache with mod_perl is a bit intimidating. > > Load up a decent VM on Amazon. Should all be out of the box. Or any > other cloud provider. > > Are you going to give a talk on this? > > Got a CPAN module that distils the necessary code? > > Is there a ::Simple version?
It was two years ago that I was fighting with Facebook and it's api - but my notes are still there at the Catalyst wiki: http://wiki.catalystframework.org/wiki/gettingstarted/howtos/facebook_applications I don't know how much of that still applies. In general it was awkward but possible with Catalyst - perhaps something making less assumptions could be more appropriate - but I have not yet tried anything else. Cheers, Z.
