Getting Started Trail Map - ringside

Get Started

This article has tutorials for Ringside's intended audience application developers and community managers.

Developers will learn how to make their application ubiquitous on every platform using apps, tags, and widgets.
Community managers will learn how to enable their communities and introduce them to a larger social graph.

More help is available through the community channels

Common Tutorials

App Developer Tutorials

Installing API client libraries
- Download PHP, Ruby on Rails, and Java API clients.
Writing Hello World
- Get used to how to write a simple app and wire it up the social application server. Also start learning the difference between a traditional application and one which considers social aspects.
Writing A Suggestions Application
- Get acquainted with writing applications that leverage Ringside, PHP, and MySQL.
Using APIs and tags in your application
- Expand the usage from hello world to use some APIs and tags to generate content.
Customizing with my own APIs
- By making your information available through an API any application can use it.
- Custom API Manual
- Custom Tag Manual
Customizing with my own XML tags
- Write your own tags and now any application or website can integrate with your social data.
FBML on any website
- With this simple widget third party sites can authenticate against external providers but provide your applicaiton to their customers.
Creating and Hosting an Open Social Application

Community Manager Tutorials