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
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
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