Appendix A – Resources
This appendix serves as a quick reference for important resources or commonly accessed URLs related to developing for the Facebook Platform. Additionally, the most important beta features Facebook has released are described.
Links
These links are grouped into links on Facebook, links related to developer tools outside of Facebook, and other external sites that provide good references for Facebook developers.
Facebook provides a lot of documentatiooits wiki and other pages, which can make it difficult to find specific items. We believe that these are the URLs that developers will access frequently:
- Application Verification Program – http://developers.facebook.com/verification.php
- Client Libraries – http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Client_Libraries
- Custom Tags Directory – http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Custom_Tags_Directory
- Developer Application - http://www.facebook.com/developers
- Developer Wiki – http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Main_Page
- Developer Forum - http://forum.developers.facebook.com/
- Developer Test Accounts – http://www.facebook.com/developers/become_test_account.php
- Developer Test Consoles – http://developers.facebook.com/tools.php
- Facebook OpeSource – http://developers.facebook.com/opensource.php
- fbFund – http://developers.facebook.com/fbFund.php?tab=about
- Guiding Principles – http://developers.facebook.com/get_started.php?tab=principles
- Platform Statistics – http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics
- Terms of Service – http://www.facebook.com/terms.php
Developer Tools
These websites contain tools that enable or assist with Facebook development that wecover in this book:
- APC – http://php.net/apc
- Firebug - http://www.getfirebug.com
- Firebug Lite – http://getfirebug.com/lite.html
- Memcached – http://www.danga.com/memcached
- Web Developer Toolbar – http://chrispederick.com/work/web-developer
- YSlow – http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow
- YUI Library – http://developer.yahoo.com/yui
Facebook News
These websites provide news updates for developers and users:
- All Facebook – http://allfacebook.com
- Developer News – http://developers.facebook.com/news.php
- Facebook News – http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php
- Inside Facebook – http://www.insidefacebook.com
Please let us know of any other key resources you have found and we will update this page.
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