ELAG 09 Mashup Workshop

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What was good?
  • Listing of Tools and APIs
  • Seeing lots of possibilities
  • Yahoo Pipes Feed Extractor Tool
  • Visual idea and experience with Yahoo Pipes
    • Better idea how programming works
    • Learned Pipes is about more that feeds
  • Successful examples are inspirational and helpful
    • Also good for debugging

What would be more helpful?
  • Yahoo Pipes was frustrating and limiting, need more info to do work
  • Wanted feedback from Pipes about why things fail
  • Difficult dealing with data elements at different levels in XML
  • More examples to work from
  • Good documentation
  • More help understanding the format you can/should output your data in and how it should be constructed
Advice for others
  • Pipes can be used to cooperatively debug
  • Test frequently and at appropriate increments
    • don't write too much code before you test. otherwise can be difficult to debug