Learning to create Facebook Applications..

I decided on Friday that I want to learn how to create facebook applications.  I’m already experienced with php programming, so in theory the creating of facebook applications seem pretty simple.

I played around with it all weekend and admit I’m pleased with it.

That’s not to say I wasn’t frustrated though.  It took a while to figure out how to get things going with php4 and most of the documentation examples are written for php5.  There’s a lot of documentation on their site as well, but I didn’t find it very useful.

For a simple task like creating and updating a profile box took over a day to figure out and I never found the answer first or last through the documentation. I finally gave up looking and posted it in the forum, where I received the answer within an hour.

All in all, I’m excited about programming in facebook.  I look forward to incorporating the Thirty Day Challenge and other IM techniques into facebook applications.

~Shannon

[tags]facebook developer, creating facebook applications, facebook apps, 30 day challenge, thirty day challenge[/tags]