Session: Facebook Application Development
Wednesday, 15:40 - 16:30
Track: .NET
Come learn how you can build Facebook applications using familiar tools and languages. We will discuss some common tasks and problems developers face when building Facebook apps such as authentication, scale, error handling, and high-availability. You will learn about the core components such as the Graph API, FQL, and XFBML. We will walk through different scenarios such as canvas apps, websites, and mobile apps and how the Facebook C# SDK and Facebook JS SDK makes building these apps easier.
Nathan Totten
Nathan Totten is a Technical Evangelist at Microsoft, he is also the creator and lead developer of the Facebook C# SDK. Before Microsoft, Nathan was a Senior Software Engineer at Thuzi where he worked on social media applications and analytics tools. He has experience building Windows Azure applications that handle large traffic spikes and maintain high availability and performance. He is also actively involved in open source development and the developer community.
