Comments on: Google AppEngine and Facebook Applications – 10 Things I wish I had known

By: Nirav

Nirav — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 11:01:57 +0000

I am stuck with infinite redirect between facebook login and logout when I am using the facebook python sdk

(https://github.com/facebook/python-sdk/tree/master/examples/appengine/)

Did you encounter a similar problem by any chance?

Thanks,
Nirav

By: Nirav

Nirav — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 10:51:55 +0000

Can I please have sample code?

Thanks,
Nirav

By: Scott S. McCoy

Scott S. McCoy — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 15:44:47 +0000

I keep a virtual dedicated system around (I lease from linode). I’ve found that rather than using DynDNS, reverse proxies over SSH work quite well. I point my facebook application canvas to the IP of the public server, and I use ssh to open the reverse tunnel, using ssh -fNR 8080:0:8080 . This lets my test facebook application run on my local computer no matter where it happens to be (a cafe, a corporate network, my own private network with no DMZ).

By: Jin

Jin — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:06:09 +0000

To use your DynDNS tip, the following option is required when you start the dev appserver: ‘–address=0.0.0.0′ Otherwise my local dev appserver wouldn’t respond a request other than ‘localhost’. There’s also an “extra flags” box in the settings of my GUI launcher that takes the same option string.

Documented here:
http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/tools/devserver.html

By: Thomas Lopes

Thomas Lopes — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 10:06:27 +0000

Good tips and article! Thanks!

But, if you mind updating the tips sometime, gave us some indexes tips. I worked on a project that demands some extra indexes, and I see this was a little pain for our developers. I guess this is a common issue for AppEngine applications.

Best regards,

By: Vicson V

Vicson V — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:08:39 +0000

Very Useful. Thanks a lot of sharing your thoughts.

By: Patrick Chanezon

Patrick Chanezon — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 08:10:07 +0000

Great article!
A few remarks:
1. for local machine FB development I found ssh reverse tunneling to be the easiest solution http://blog.kenweiner.com/2007/09/reverse-ssh-tunnel-for-facebook.html
2. cron jobs are now part of appengine api
http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/config/cron.html

Looking fwd to seeing your FB app ship!

By: Carmen Delessio

Carmen Delessio — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:07:06 +0000

I agree about FBJS. Since the announcement of App Engine for Java, I’ve deployed a simple Facebook App. I think GAE is a good fit for this kind of development. Facebook apps serve a specific purpose, but they might get popular and need to scale.

My blog post about it: http://socialjava.blogspot.com/2009/04/facebook-apps-in-java-running-on-google.html

More info on http://www.socialjava.com. Includes source.

Carmen

By: Vivek M. Chawla

Vivek M. Chawla — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 23:24:52 +0000

Thanks for putting this together! I’ve been doing my own work with Facebook Apps on GAE, and it was highly instructive to read about your experiences.

One question: You talked about using DynDNS so that Facebook hits your local AppEngine dev server. I was wondering if there was a reason you preferred to do things this way instead of just setting the Canvas Callback URL of your Facebook app to http://127.0.0.1:8080 (or whatever port you have the dev server running on)?

Thanks again for the post!

Vivek

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