As part of his article series for the Japanese magazine Web Site Expert, writer Bart Eisenberg interviewed John Maver and Cappy Popp about the state of Facebook application development and related technical books. Their book, Essential Facebook Development: Build Successful Applications for the Facebook Platform, covered how to create applications from end to end. Read [...]
John Maver will be presenting, along with Jaime Tedford of Brand Networks on the recent Facebook Open Graph announcement and how businesses can take advantage of it. The event will be held on June 10th at Northeastern University, starting at 8:30 am. Facebook has yet again changed the game with theannouncement of the next version of [...]
Our book, Essential Facebook Development, is now available. The synopsis: With more than 300 million active users, Facebook is the world’s #1 social networking platform. But developing successful Facebook applications presents unique challenges, both technical and nontechnical. Now, two of the world’s most experienced Facebook developers show you exactly how to meet those challenges. Essential [...]
Our publisher, Addison-Wesley Professional, has graciously published ‘Rough Cuts’ - that means they still need final edits – of the first five chapters of our upcoming book, Facebook Development: A Complete Guide to Smart Application Development for the Facebook Platform, on InformIT’s Safari Books Online. Rough Cuts allow readers to get access to the book [...]
Facebook today announced Quick Transitions, an Ajax-backed technology for enabling faster canvas page loads in Facebook Applications. Does it work? Not at the moment.