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A few months ago (in May), Facebook opened up it’s web services to PHP developers worldwide. It’s yet another brilliant move by the social networking pioneers, providing your average developer with a means of creating mini-applications for Facebook users. They are totally free to develop, and have very little restrictions… you can even create commercial apps!

As a PHP developer, I’ve been very tempted to create a mini-app, but time and ideas have been short. However, the other day I took a ‘political quiz’ mini-app, and the results of the quiz inspired me.

For those who know me well, you should know that I’m a very firm believer in the Libertarian party and philosophy. So it was without surprise that my political quiz results were personally disappointing - it’s a line graph between being a ‘liberal’ and ‘conservative’. I fall in the middle of that, pretty much, with a slight lean towards the liberal side - but I really have a personal problem with being associated with liberals (to be fair, I have a problem with being labeled ‘conservative’ as well). The real political spectrum is 2 dimensional, not 1, so during the next few weeks I am going to be designing and developing a Facebook app - a short political quiz, using the Nolan chart as a way of measuring results.

It should be an interesting learning experience.