Well having done a Facebook app, step one set the URL to http://localhost:1234 or something on Facebook and you are away for local dev work. Unless you are working on something different to what I did, it just inspects the source URL.
Try using a web service mocking software and learning how to work your hosts file. Soap UI comes to mind... or whack together manual services on test boxes.
If you capture an coming response, maybe using fiddler or something, or if using visual studio its a breeze. Then just set up a basic web service that returns you data as you captured, no processing needed at all. Or even just set up some proper routing. There isn't really an excuse doing cowboy work will bite, maybe not today, but later.
I've seen to many huge f/k ups and been responsible for €50,000 mistake myself mucking with a live server with no testing environment.
My favourite for this is virtualisation BTW. Taking server snap shots of production, dumping them in a sand box where I have mocked third party set ups, and hack away. Makes releasing, testing, everything breeze. Big time cost up front, but it pays itself back ten fold on the first smooth release.
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Well having done a Facebook app, step one set the URL to http://localhost:1234 or something on Facebook and you are away for local dev work. Unless you are working on something different to what I did, it just inspects the source URL.
Try using a web service mocking software and learning how to work your hosts file. Soap UI comes to mind... or whack together manual services on test boxes.
If you capture an coming response, maybe using fiddler or something, or if using visual studio its a breeze. Then just set up a basic web service that returns you data as you captured, no processing needed at all. Or even just set up some proper routing. There isn't really an excuse doing cowboy work will bite, maybe not today, but later.
I've seen to many huge f/k ups and been responsible for €50,000 mistake myself mucking with a live server with no testing environment.
My favourite for this is virtualisation BTW. Taking server snap shots of production, dumping them in a sand box where I have mocked third party set ups, and hack away. Makes releasing, testing, everything breeze. Big time cost up front, but it pays itself back ten fold on the first smooth release.