build facebook connect enabled applications with google apps engine
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Robert Mao's talk at the second Facebook Garage Ireland. Organised by Web2Ireland and sponsored by Facebook and Enterprise IrelandTRANSCRIPT
WhereFacebook Connects
Google Apps Engine
Robert Mao
http://dev.robertmao.com/
Disclaimer
I work for Microsoft.
The opinions expressed herein are my own personal opinions and do not represent my employer's view in any way.
Use your own best judgment on what I commented on Facebook, Google, Microsoft, …
Facebook Application
Facebook Connect
Facebook Facebook
Application ? Connect
Facebook Application
Your web app
Browser
Facebook Connect
Your web app
Browser
Facebook Facebook
Application = Connect
Google Apps Engine
What’s Google Apps Engine?
Fancy/buzz words: Cloud Computing
Honest explain: a free, powerful virtual web hosting
Grow big: It’s scalable! (almost for free!)
Why Google Apps Engine?
It’s free! (almost)
It’s easy, no setup, no install, no hassles…
It’s scalable! (and almost for “free”)
Tools or links you need…
Google Apps Engine SDK: http://code.google.com/appengine/
Eclipse: http://www.eclipse.org/
PyDev: http://pydev.sourceforge.net/
Django: http://www.djangoproject.com/
App Engine Patch: http://code.google.com/p/app-engine-patch/
pyFacebook: http://github.com/sciyoshi/pyfacebook/
Demo: Guinness A nightly build facebook application on Google Apps Engine
Demo: Guinness
Try it your self:http://apps.facebook.com/guinness-pints
Ideas behind this demo…
Facebook application and connect in one
Social game as a marketing tool
Agile and quick development, deployment is possible and easy!
More …
How it built… in 5 min…
Begin a GAE project…Create facebook application
How it built… in 10 min
Facebook connect websiteFace application
How it built… in 30 min …
Facebook connect websiteFace application
How it built… in 60 min…
Download code to hack and improve by yourself:http://github.com/mave99a/fb-guinness/
Feel free to buy me some:
Let’s warp up…
References
http://developers.facebook.com/tools.php Developer tools
http://www.somethingtoputhere.com/demo/xfbml_console/index.html XFBML consoles
FB App Canvas Pages: I Think I’d Use Iframes iFrame .vs. FBML? iFrame!
http://www.iconeasy.com/ Free Icons!
http://devtacular.com/articles/bkonrad/how-to-style-an-application-like-facebook/ Make apps looks like facebook
