The latest result of my collaboration with Packt Publishing is Facebook Graph API Development with Flash by Michael James Williams, who also owns a blog about Flash game developing. Michael is an excellent writer and I was pleased to be the reviewer of this book.

Here we go with the 3rd step. In this tutorial you will learn how to publish a full featured feed post to your friends’ wall, and to handle “umlauts” characters like “äöü” for the pleasure of our German readers, and for every user who has friends whose names contain special characters. This is the kind [...]

In step 1 you learned how to authenticate and select a random friend of yours. In this second part you will learn how to get more information about your friends and how to post the answer on their wall. This is what you will get: and once you hit “Answer and publish” you will post [...]

Do you know Friend Interview? It’s a Facebook application which asks a random question about a random friend of yours, and publish the result on his wall. I won’t publish a snapshot of such app since it’s full of rubbish and ads, but I am sure you know what I am talking about (and moreover [...]

While I am preparing a new tutorial about Facebook applications (and a php FB game, maybe HTML5 based), I notice there isn’t any “Hello World” application about Facebook applications using the new Graph API with just some PHP lines. If you don’t know what is the Graph API and don’t want to get an headache [...]

Horror Profile is a Facebook application I developed a month ago. Now it’s time to release the source code. You will find some useful tips about dynamic image creation with php. If you are absolutely new to Facebook applications, I suggest you to read “Developing a Facebook Application for absolute beginners” posts 1, 2, 3, [...]

Some days ago I showed you how to create a Flash Facebook application using the AS3 API. Now Yarden Refaeli from Rigel Games is sharing with us his experience in creating a Flash Facebook application using another technique. Let’s read it: « Hello, my name is Yarden Refaeli and I have been flash programmer for [...]

It’s time to make some considerations on the Facebook application made with the Facebook Actionscript API I blogged some days ago. There was a doubt about putting a secret key in the swf file. Well, you should never give away your secret key, but let me point on two things: 1) You can encrypt your [...]

It’s time to see how can we build a Flash Facebook application. What we are going to do is a Flash movie to be embedded in a Facebook application, able to interact with the user by publishing notes and stories on the wall. The first thing we need is the official Facebook Actionscript API. This [...]

You are all invited to try Horror Profile, a Facebook application I made in about an hour. The application takes your name and profile photo, and combines them in a creepy environment to create an horrific photo that you can upload to your album. During next days I’ll release the full tutorial to create an [...]