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Here’s a quick update about my little ColdFusion/Facebook framework. It’s burning up all of my spare time and I could probably rabbit on about it all year, it’s been fun. I’m definitely no natural at blogging, but I do want to get the word out on this one, so here goes a wee news update;

Release Status
Alpha3 has just gone out to a few interested people. The compliments are most encouraging (thanks peeps!) however no bug reports means it clearly needs more users. It’s in no way stable but I’m happy for anyone else to try it. Just drop me a line ;)

Sites and Sounds
I’ve purchased domain names and will probably settle on coldface.org. And why not, it’s catchy. It currently points to the ColdFace category on this blog. I just started up a generalized Facebook group on ColdFusionCommunity.org so please do join if you’re interested in Facebook app development. There’s some documentation on the wiki, it’s on assembla.com and I will probably use them for SVN too. Sorry the doco is sketchy and already needs some re-editing, doh!

In my next post I’ll talk about the basic features and the road ahead.

Here’s something, we can now create Facebook test accounts. This is useful for developing and testing your apps without spamming your feeds, profile, friends and so on. Take heed there are some restrictions and guidelines to be considered. Basically test accounts should not communicate with real people and vica versa.

Hey, if you get a test account, why not look me up, or try the ever evolving (and decaying) Coldface Example App.

Tonight I’ve updated the Coldface Example App.

The example application now includes a bunch of tests and examples. It tests all known Facebook REST methods, including photo uploads (which I’ve only just mastered). It’d be great if someone, anyone, could try it out.

And a while back I started the Coldface Wiki.

Okay this is it… I’m working on a little project called ‘ColdFace’. There I said it. Now I have to make it happen or look like a doofus for talking it up.

Thanks to BiteMan and Edifier for (both) suggesting the name ColdFace. I had another in mind and I might still change it. Because I can. ColdFace is a ‘big’ word, maybe too big for my wee project. But for now we can blame those guys ;)

What is ColdFace? I’m loathed to use the word framework. It’s more like package of components and tags that can make Facebook apps ridiculously easy for ColdFusion developers.

I really hope a few people try it (when the time comes) and give me a little feedback.

Sorry, no code to show yet. A while back I did try to write some doco.