Brian Mains

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Facebook Connect and Localhost
Most people may not realize, but you can use Facebook Connect with your http://localhost server. This works great for ASP.NET and MVC (and other environments too, but I'm primarily a .NET guy so please pardon my favoritism). You setup the localhost...
Posted: Wed, Sep 23 2009 21:36 by bmains | with no comments
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Using FQL in SQL Server Over REST
If you haven't heard from my blog or Facebook WIKI's before, there are two ways to query data from Facebook, using the ApiClient object to query the data from the Facebook server, or by using FQL to query against their propietary database directly...
Posted: Wed, Sep 23 2009 21:29 by bmains | with no comments
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Facebook Location Object
If you have used the Facebook FQL syntax to query the location column of a table, or have requested the location parameter from the friends_get or other API methods, what you need to know is location is a complex object consisting of the following properties...
Facebook FQL
Facebook supports a variant of SQL called FQL, or Facebook Query Language. If you know anything about Facebook's data storage center, Facebook has moved away from the traditional relational database and created their own custom application for storing...
Facebook Connect JavaScript API
I recently submitted a Facebook development article to ASP.NET Pro magazine. It was quite the challenge initially to get it started. But once I got going (I think I'll blog on this later), I was off and running but there aren't a lot of examples...