Showing posts with label Facebook. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Facebook. Show all posts

Sunday, April 8, 2012

HipHop: PHP => C++

Facebook unveiled HipHop to the public in 2010 and began distributing it under an open source software license,the company converts PHP into heavily optimized C++ code.

More information about HipHop and install instruction available here.

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Facebook apps in Python using App Engine

Most guys used PHP for all the facebook applications. We can use Python to develop a facebook app.

There is already a sample application in facebook that uses Python and most interestingly Google app engine! The application is named 'Run With Friends'. Though I have seen this page before but never looked at it closely. So, I think this page is the right place to get started creating facebook app in Python and GAE: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/samples/canvas/.