With the rollout of App Center last summer, Facebook has made it easier than ever for its 1 billion users to discover, and for web developers to monetize, great web applications. Unlike iOS and Android, Facebook applications are built entirely using tried-and-true web technologies already familiar to Drupal developers. That makes Drupal the perfect platform for building user-centric applications that integrate tightly with the Facebook experience.

This session will discuss how to build a Facebook application from the ground up. We'll introduce the audience to Facebook's Developer Center and cover how to set up a developer account and a basic application. Then we'll dive into the Drupal setup and outline several contributed FB-integration modules (Drupal for Facebook, Facebook Connect, FB OAuth, Facebook social plugins integration) and their key differences. Finally we'll end the session with a more in-depth disccusion of the development process and tools, including:

• Javascript SDK
• PHP SDK
• Graph API
• Open Graph protocol
• Social Plugins
• Dialogs
• Debugging