Can Drupal help commoditize Facebook app development?
The answer is "probably yes". I just wrote up a description of our Vancouver Drupal Users Group event over on Bryght, but saved the provocative title for here.
I think that maybe I'll lift my stance on only adding Facebook apps that have a "public Internet" face as well. Much as I hate locking data into Facebook, I do want to support local developers: ActiveState's Up4, DabbleDB's DabbleDo, and the soon-to-be-released Opus Player by the Donat Group / Project Opus.
But don't think I won't be continuing to push folks to figure out ways to nicely push and pull data in and out of Facebook in a way that benefits the open Internet as well as respects the privacy and security of user's content within Facebook.
Finally I wanted to share with you that yes, we did indeed continue to chat over beer. The strangest phrase that came up was camel cheese. Nice.
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The answer is yes!
The answer is definitely yes.
I've been working on this myself, until now in a vacuum. Now that I'm aware of the Donat group effort I will be in touch with them. I've been planning to package my work nicely by the time of the Drupalcon, and share it with everyone by then.
If you don't believe the answer is definitely yes, see this demo:
http://apps.facebook.com/drupalforfacebook.
I plan to present about this at Drupalcon: http://barcelona2007.drupalcon.org/node/630
Camel Cheese
Indeed, there is far more to learn about camel cheese than I had ever imagined. Did you see the camel cheese video as well? I told you I'd find one on YouTube!
http://raincoaster.com/2007/08/31/camel-cheese-the-video/