Dries Buytaert, the lead of the Drupal Project, noticed that the Rock Band web site is running on Drupal.

In the comments of the post someone who appears to be from Harmonix (the company that built the game) confirms it and notes that they are actively looking to hire Drupal developers.

I just finished watching a great screencast created by Rob Loach that walks through the process of building a desktop application which connects and interacts with data from a remote Drupal web site.

He uses Visual Studio.NET with C# in this tutorial and demonstrates how to load and save a node to Drupal using XMLRPC and the Drupal Services Module.

Check out his screencast here (about 25 minutes long)

I was browsing the Facebook Developer Wiki over the holidays and came across a neat little feature. It is possible to give users who aren't on Facebook a specially crafted URL that will allow them to sign up with your application already added to their account.

There were many exciting developments in the RIA space this year. Since I started this blog I have been tracking some APIs and platforms that I think are the most interesting and innovative. This year these included the Facebook Platform, Drupal project, and Ribbit Phone API.

In the new year you can expect me to continue covering the latest developments on the Facebook platform as well as post a little more about working with the latest release of Adobe AIR.

My best wishes go out to you and your family over the holidays and I hope that you all have a very Merry Christmas.

A thread appeared yesterday on the Facebook Developers Forum looking for beta testers for their upcoming payment system.

Facebook has a great opportunity here to compete with PayPal and other online merchant providers. I hope that the transaction fees are minimal because I think Facebook is a great place to try implementing micropayment options which isn't easy to do with the high costs of a normal credit card merchant account.