I’ve been playing around creating a Facebook Application for WorkMugs that lets you run a drink decider with your Facebook friends to decide who makes the tea.  Creating the application has been more of a familiarisation exercise than anything else in readiness for creating an application for Skills Log.  Skills Log will make much more use of the Facebook functionality, but I thought I’d test the water with WorkMugs.

The first thing that struck me is the potential for integrating a distinct stand-alone website with Facebook. It is however a steep learning curve and the documentation isn’t that great, and from reading the forums it seems that some things on the platform can change with little or no notice - I noticed this myself when my javascript stopped working from one day to the next, the result of a tweak they seemed to have quietly made with how javascript is handled.  That said, the tools and platform are very impressive, now to start on the app for Skills Log…