Ooochie: A Ruby Developer’s Journal

Last night I attended the Facebook Developer's Garage at the Tempe Center for the Arts. I was surprised at the turnout, but disappointed to see that only a fraction of those in attendance were developers. I got to hear Dave Morin from Facebook speak about "harnessing the power of the social graph" by using the Facebook platform. Erica took some good notes, which she has already posted on her blog.

Back in July I launched my first Facebook app, which provides users with a profile box that displays their myspace photo and links their friends to their myspace profile, and I'm proud to say it has over 2700 users! (You can install my app here.) Curtis, Matt, and I are currently working on another application for Facebook that we hope to unveil sometime in the very near future. Stay tuned!

Well, my friends, I have officially graduated to a new level of nerdiness (or so I've been told).... I wrote a facebook application! It may not be pretty, complex, or anywhere near perfect-- but I wrote it all myself, and I already have 164 users since submitting it last night!

It's a simple app that, when given the user's myspace url, steals the photo off the myspace page and places it in the user's facebook profile. The picture serves as a link to the user's myspace page.

So, nerd-factor aside, I think it's pretty darn cool. If you have a facebook and a myspace account, go check out my fantastic application. You can find it at http://apps.facebook.com/myspace_fb.

Maybe if I feel ambitious I will post about developing a facebook app, but for now I will just link you to those who have already done so. Liverail has a nice tutorial that helped me out a bunch, and the follow-up is here.

Happy Facebooking!