Foundations of Popfly: Rapid Mashup Development
by Griffin, EricFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2008-01-28
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Summary
Mashups are big; everybody and their dog are creating new and interesting ways of combining information on the Web. But if all the talk of APIs and complex code leaves you cold, you'll be pleased to meet Microsoft Popfly. Popfly was created as a tool for designers to build mashups in a visual manner, rapidly, without needing to know any code. By simply dragging out "blocks" that represent services such as Flickr onto your workspace and then drawing connection lines between them, you can create a mashup. It's as easy as that! Get Popfly and Silverlight up and running on your computer, and then learn how to use the Popfly Mashup Creator and Popfly Web Page Creator to share your mashups with the world. Author Eric Griffin will introduce you to Popfly and show you everything you need to start creating your own hybrid web applications.
Table of Contents
| About the Author | p. xi |
| About the Technical Reviewer | p. xiii |
| Acknowledgments | p. xv |
| Introduction | p. xvii |
| Introduction to Mashups | p. 1 |
| What Is a Mashup? | p. 1 |
| A Brief History of Mashups | p. 2 |
| Understanding Mashup Technology | p. 4 |
| Foundation Technologies | p. 5 |
| Presentation Technologies | p. 6 |
| Interactivity Technologies | p. 6 |
| Web Service Technologies: Application Programming Interfaces | p. 7 |
| Data Technologies | p. 8 |
| Mashup Architecture | p. 9 |
| Examples of Mashups | p. 11 |
| AP News + Google Maps | p. 11 |
| Markovic.com | p. 12 |
| Bubblr | p. 12 |
| Mashup Resources on the Web | p. 13 |
| Web Sites | p. 14 |
| Mashup Web Service APIs | p. 14 |
| Summary | p. 20 |
| Enter Popfly | p. 21 |
| What Is Popfly? | p. 22 |
| Presentation and Interactivity Blocks | p. 23 |
| Web Services and Data Blocks | p. 23 |
| The Popfly Environment | p. 24 |
| Mashup Creator | p. 24 |
| Block Creator | p. 25 |
| Web Page Creator | p. 25 |
| Popfly Explorer | p. 26 |
| Online Community | p. 26 |
| How Do Silverlight and Popfly Relate? | p. 27 |
| Getting a Popfly Account | p. 28 |
| Creating Your Profile | p. 28 |
| Finding Users | p. 29 |
| Getting Help | p. 30 |
| Popfly Examples | p. 30 |
| Upcoming Music Events with Forecast | p. 30 |
| My Facebook Friends | p. 31 |
| spacesPhotoSlide | p. 32 |
| Summary | p. 33 |
| Creating Your First Mashup | p. 35 |
| Finding Blocks | p. 36 |
| Setting Block Properties | p. 37 |
| Connecting Blocks | p. 38 |
| Viewing Advanced Properties | p. 41 |
| Testing Your Mashup | p. 42 |
| Adding HTML to Your Mashup | p. 43 |
| Saving Your Mashup | p. 44 |
| Sharing Your Popfly Mashup | p. 45 |
| Summary | p. 46 |
| More Mashup Examples | p. 47 |
| Creating a Flickr Mashup | p. 47 |
| Getting a Flickr Account | p. 47 |
| Setting Up Your Flickr Mashup | p. 48 |
| Setting the User Input Block Properties | p. 51 |
| Setting the Flickr Block Properties | p. 53 |
| Setting the PhotoSphere Block Properties | p. 55 |
| Previewing the Flickr Mashup | p. 56 |
| Saving Your Mashup | p. 57 |
| Creating a Virtual Earth Mashup | p. 57 |
| Getting an Upcoming Account | p. 57 |
| Getting Started on Your Upcoming Virtual Earth Mashup | p. 59 |
| Setting the Upcoming Block Properties | p. 60 |
| Setting the Virtual Earth Block Properties | p. 61 |
| Customizing the Virtual Earth Block | p. 64 |
| Managing Your API Keys | p. 67 |
| Summary | p. 69 |
| Creating Web Pages | p. 71 |
| Creating Your First Page | p. 71 |
| Changing Headers and Footers | p. 73 |
| Creating and Adding Content | p. 75 |
| Changing Page Styles | p. 79 |
| Adding Mashups to Web Pages | p. 82 |
| Summary | p. 85 |
| Sharing Your Popfly Mashup | p. 87 |
| Tweaking Your Mashup | p. 87 |
| Sharing Your Mashup | p. 91 |
| Sharing Your Mashup in Web Pages | p. 92 |
| Sharing Your Mashup As a Windows Vista Gadget | p. 96 |
| Sharing Your Mashup in Window Live Spaces | p. 99 |
| Sharing Your Mashup in Facebook | p. 101 |
| E-mailing Your Mashup | p. 102 |
| Summary | p. 104 |
| Extending Popfly with Blocks | p. 105 |
| What Is a Block? | p. 105 |
| Block Architecture | p. 106 |
| RSS Block Description | p. 107 |
| RSS Block Code | p. 114 |
| Getting Data from the Server | p. 124 |
| Summary | p. 124 |
| Getting Started with the Popfly Block SDK | p. 125 |
| Downloading the Popfly Block SDK | p. 125 |
| Installing Visual Web Developer | p. 128 |
| Setting Up the Block Test Harness | p. 131 |
| How the Test Harness Works | p. 137 |
| Summary | p. 145 |
| Creating Your First Block with Visual Web Developer | p. 147 |
| Finding a Service for Your Block | p. 147 |
| Technorati API Operations | p. 151 |
| Search Operation (Query) | p. 152 |
| Developing Your Block in Visual Web Developer | p. 154 |
| Testing Your Block | p. 163 |
| Debugging Your Code with Visual Web Developer | p. 165 |
| Creating Your Block Definition with Visual Web Developer | p. 169 |
| Summary | p. 174 |
| Using the Popfly Block Creator | p. 175 |
| The Block Creator | p. 175 |
| Adding Your Block to Popfly | p. 179 |
| Using Your Block in a Mashup | p. 182 |
| Summary | p. 186 |
| Index | p. 187 |
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