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Build Now, Scale Later: Getting Real

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Scalability

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Monitoring software

Application source code

Database

Hardware/OS/software utilities

User interface/support systems

Language Selection As Architecture

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Cross-Language Development with Facebook Thrift

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The Database Is Dead! Long Live memcached!

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Advanced Caching with Nginx and memcached

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Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Hosting with Amazon Web Services

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Integrating Drupal and Facebook

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App Design Process

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Know thy user

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Frame the problem

Making a mockery

Build it!

The Facebook User Interface Widgets

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Simple UI widgets

UI conventions

Facebook’s Global User Interface

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5. Setting Up Your Environment

Creating a Test Account

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Facebook Clients

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JavaScript Client Library

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Starting Out in PHP

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Demo Applications

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Solution and Discussion

Developer Documentation

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Test Consoles

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Developer Forums: Help!

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Facebook Bug Squashing

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Facebook Developer Software Toolbox

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Mac OS X

Windows

Linux

Eclipse

Weekly Facebook Pushes

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Hosting

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Joyent Facebook developers program

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Amazonian Backends: Simple Storage Solution

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Setting up your AWS account

Getting foxy with S3Fox

Buckets of files

Interacting with S3’s API

Amazonian Backends: Hosting on Elastic Cloud Computing

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Staying Up-to-Date

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6. Facebook Markup Language (FBML)

What Is FBML?

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Categories of FBML Tags

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FBML Versions

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A Rose by Any Other Name: Forced Renaming

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Web Standards

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Resources

Displaying a User’s Name

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He Said, She Said: Dealing with Pronouns

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Worth a Thousand Words: Profile Pictures

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Linking to Events

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Linking to Groups

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Linking to Networks

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Display Content to Group Members

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Display Content to Network Members

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Displaying Content to App Users

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Displaying Content to Friends

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Displaying/Hiding Content to/from Specific Users

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Displaying Random Content

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Displaying Content to Specific Browsers

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Displaying Your Application’s Name

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