On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Zbigniew Lukasiak <zzb...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. > >
Facebook is switching over to something called the Graph Api ( https://graph.facebook.com ) -- Rallias Ubernerd Clan of Phoenix Rose Ash