Facebook Developer Starter Guide

About this Guide

This Guide contains information about developing an application for Facebook, deploying the application on a Morph AppSpace, and adding the application to Facebook.

Overview

Facebook is a social networking Web site, which allows free access to users wanting to join one or more networking groups such as schools, companies, regions, or country of origin. Aside from being a social network, Facebook launched the Facebook platform that provides a framework for software developers to create applications that interact with core Facebook features.

A software developer who wants to deploy an application on the Facebook platform needs two things: an application and a host. Your application must run independently on a host. However, ordinary hosting schemes might not serve your application effectively. As your application requirements change, you have to think about load balancing, high availability, backup, security, redundancy, and a host of other related delivery and management things.

Morph AppSpace, an application delivery environment that runs within the Morph Application Platform 1 , provides you with a complete deployment, delivery, and management system for your Facebook application.

If you’re excited to create your first Facebook application, read the following sections. You will learn how to develop a Facebook application using Ruby on Rails, how to deploy the application on the Morph AppSpace, and how to add the application to Facebook.

Introducing the Morph AppSpace

The Morph AppSpace provides a complete deployment, delivery, and management system for Web applications. It runs within the Morph Application Platform, equipping you with a fault-tolerant environment that you can scale as your requirements change.

The Morph AppSpace is complete with load balancing, high-availability infrastructure, Morph AppSpace cube2, integrated database, managed backups, monitoring, and self repair. All these free you from the burden of installing and configuring servers. You only need to focus on building your application and deploying it on a Morph AppSpace. Our well-experienced team will take care of the rest. Subscriptions for the Morph AppSpace start at USD 1 a day for an entry level Web application. For more information, visit www.mor.ph.

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