I’m working on a new Facebook application for a client and being a lazy programmer I wanted to do as little work as possible while producing a good result.

I’d started building the app with the Zend Framework but while it is many ways an excellent library it is as yet only a starting point. To build any sort of real-world application with the Zend Framework will require considerable effort, and I was beginning to think this job was going to be a headache.

Imagine my delight, then, at finding Dave Cohen had written a Facebook integration module for my favourite platform, Drupal. Could that solve my development problems? (more…)

Everybody’s talking about Facebook, it seems. One of the most interesting aspects of it for me as a developer is the existence of its API, which makes it possible to create new networking applications, or to integrate existing applications with the Facebook platform.
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