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I just had a glance at their API docs.
At a first glance, it seems reasonably well-factored, and I have little doubt that I could learn to use it in a matter of days, with "hello, world" in hours. There isn't anything terribly unusual there.
That's the starting point from which I'd give good odds at writing a facebook app. Unfortunately, it isn't palladias' starting point; unless I'm completely mistaken, he's several levels of inference away from understanding their API docs.
Attempting to spike, by learning just what is needed to understand Facebook's APIs, is likely to produce a fragile understanding that breaks the moment they change anything. Ideally, you'd want a broad enough base of understanding that you can predict where to look for bits of API because it's where you would put them yourself.
As it happens, palladias is female.
So noted, though I don't see the relevance.
Just that you said "he".
Hmm. Well, I don't have much of a gender identity, so I don't know how annoying being addressed like that would be. On the other hand, English doesn't have any gender-neutral pronouns that don't make me feel silly, and I refuse to make one up when I'm not writing fiction.
Well, obviously it's up to you. My own preference is to do one of
in preference to possibly misgendering someone, since I know some people find that very unpleasant. But if those are all too much trouble, fair enough.
Yes, it does: "he".
Unfortunately, the mental image of maleness overrides any hope of that working consistently in people's imagination.
Example: "Man is the animal that suckles his young".