week 6 blog

This weekend I made the facebook application "CareerFolio" and added the group members as developers of the application. We haven't yet added the different links to the server or the webpage to make it functional; we will do that next. It seems that our initial plan last week, after giving the presentation, was to split up the group into a "front-end" and "back-end" division, where the front-end would work mainly on the appearance of the application while the back-end worked with php and mysql. It seems, however, that this is not exactly a plausible idea simply because most of the process of creating the resumes and how it will appear must be done through the server and with fbml. I looked at the WC3 tutorial on PHP today and installed the necessary files onto my computer. I also looked into free webhosting, just to practice a little bit of php on my own to see if i can make it connect to the facebook app. On one of the tutorial pages it explained how to upload files and save files with php, and so if our group decides to go this route with resumes, hopefully we can use the tutorials on WC3 to help us. Judging from how another Facebook application, Professional Profile, allows facebook users to post resumes on facebook (through uploading), this may not be an unreasonable route to take. Tomorrow we will meet after class and try to figure out more of the logistics, seeing as how much of the work is intertwined....