I am a zealot when it comes to testing, so naturally the idea of updating an app and crossing my fingers hoping it will work is unacceptable. I was tempted, for a moment, to write a Facebook simulator/container webapp for testing my Facebook apps under development. Then I got wise and decided to simply set up a new, legitimate, Facebook app for the sole purpose of testing an app under development.
I’m rather proud of this little hack, since I even figured out how to get Facebook to talk to my app under development on my development machine at home. (I used a combination of ssh remote port forwarding and Apache proxying.) With a few tweaks I can point to any of the apps under development.
