During last two weeks You may have observed significant decline in new posts from NetManiac. Well, nothing happens without reason. With my friend from non-formal group of polish web developers and designers – Yashke I have started work on application, which uses Facebook API. Social network information is core feature for this application.

My impressions as a developer are positive, however this API (from my personal experiences) is hard to start with. I had no prior experience with Facebook (F8 in Poland is not very popular to say at least) so my biggest obstacle was to overcome simple issues with setting up developer application. This is simple, but there some quirks when You have marked Your app as ‘developer only’ and it works in iframe (or as standalone one). Logging with Facebook account not associated as developer of this application results with many strange errors. It looks like most of them are fixed, but not all. For example in one controller I have troubles to get info from fbsession and fbparams, they are just empty variables. Of course there is the same include/require set and filters ran both in this and other controllers. Strange, but it waits for later to debug where I made mistake ;-))

So, stay tuned – in few days I expect we will announce our application to much wider audience (currently small set of testers is involved).