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Print: $19.06 Download: $6.81 This book is all about developing web content mashups using the popular Yahoo! Pipes web-based development environment.
The case studies demonstrate a range of practical, innovative uses for Yahoo! Pipes mashups in scenarios such as Affiliate Marketing, Selling Online, Price Comparison, Stock Trading, Mapping, and Integrating Other Mashup Technologies.
The example solutions demonstrate not-so-obvious Yahoo! Pipes features and techniques including: * Processing RSS, CSV, and JSON formats. * Embedding Pipes Results in Web Pages. * Invoking Sub Pipes and Pipe URLs. * Rendering Results as Maps and Lists. * HTML (Screen) Scraping.
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Print: $21.69 Download: $6.81 The Google Mashup Editor (GME) is an online development environment for creating mashups – web applications that draw data from various sources, process it, and present it in novel ways.
In this book you will:
* Become familiar with the GME environment.
* Learn about the gm: tags that underpin Google mashup applications.
* Learn core techniques for reading and writing data feeds, for handling events, and for utilizing the JavaScript API.
* Review example GME applications devised by the Google team and others.
* Develop a comprehensive case study application.
* Make mashups available by publishing them, embedding in web pages, and distributing as Google Gadgets.
* Integrate GME applications with Yahoo! Pipes, for even more innovative solutions.
* Devise solutions to reader exercises; and learn from the model answers provided.
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Print: $18.06 Download: $4.99 Yahoo! Pipes is a powerful composition tool to aggregate, manipulate, and mashup content from around the web. In this book you will learn how to:
* Create Pipes by selecting modules from the library, and connecting them together graphically on the Pipe Editor’s canvas; no programming required.
* Publish your Pipes for the benefit of others.
* Discover and take advantage of already-published Pipes.
* Embed Pipe results directly in your own web pages.
* Combine Yahoo! Pipes with Microsoft Popfly to create more innovative mashups.
Many of the chapters conclude with an Exercise for the Reader, which helps you discover more “hands on”. And don’t worry, the answers are given too!
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Print: $18.06 Download: $4.99 Microsoft Popfly is a web site comprising a social network (the Popfly Space), a tool (the Popfly Creator), and an optional Visual Studio plug-in (the Popfly Explorer), which together allow you to create and combine web content for sharing with others.
This book introduces Popfly and shows how you can use it to:
Create web content mashups by connecting predefined building blocks on a design surface; no programming required.
Create a Popfly hosted web page incorporating one or more mashups.
Include mashups in your social network profiles, as sidebar gadgets on your Windows Vista desktop, and more.
Make Popfly friends, share content with them, and rate their projects.
Use Popfly Explorer to share Visual Studio projects and make them accessible from anywhere.
And just for fun: the book concludes with an example of how Microsoft Popfly may be combined with another mashup technology, Yahoo! Pipes, to create even more innovative web content.
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Print: $16.24 Download: $4.99 This original book covers the various order types offered by your stockbroker, and strategies you can use to incorporate the different orders into your trading. The chapters are laid out in such a way that it is easy to familiarise yourself with each concept, and to understand the pros and cons of the different strategies. Every concept is clearly explained with diagrams and charts, and the success and failure scenarios show how things can go well or badly. The patterns include LIMIT BUY, LIMIT SELL, STOP BUY, STOP SELL, TRAILING STOP BUY, TRAILING STOP SELL, STOP/LIMIT, and STRADDLE. The author rounds off with real-life examples and back-testing results.
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Print: $13.61 Download: $3.61 This book is not for computer geeks.
It’s for regular people, such as parents, who have purchased one or more personal computers for the family; and who are concerned about how those computers can be used safely on-line and off-line so that...
. • Individual computer users – particularly children, but maybe your granny – are protected from illegal, immoral, pornographic, or violent content.
• The computer itself is resilient to attack from viruses, spyware, and other malevolent forces resident on the Internet.
The book is primarily concerned with the safety and security features of Windows Vista, which contribute towards a safer computing environment for the whole family. Since your family will likely have additional Windows XP computers, you will also find some suggestions on how similar family safety features may be applied on those computers too.
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Print: $11.80 Download: $2.72 If your investment falls by 50% you'll need a 100% rise just to get you back where you started. So when speculating in the stock markets, protecting the money you do have is just as important as making some more.
This book is for you if you'd like to have a go at beating the system, but don't want to lose your shirt in the process.
Topics covered include: index investing, market timing and trend following, stop loss orders, position sizing, and option spreads.
"I found it very easy to understand, not too much jargon..."
"I rather enjoyed the experience notes at the end of each chapter..."
"..it's nice to be able to learn a few things from others' experiences, good or bad."
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Tony Loton's Blog
2008 May 20 I've noticed in the Yahoo! Pipes forums ( http://discuss.pipes.yahoo.com/) a steady stream of people asking essentially the same question:- how to combine information from two feeds so that: a) Fields are taken from both feeds, and combined into a single output feed. b) Items are retained from the first feed only if they have a corresponding matching item in the second feed. In a nutshell, what they want to do is to join the two feeds in the same way that they would join two tables using a SQL statement like this: SELECT * FROM Table1, Table2 WHERE Table1.keyValue = Table2.keyValue Here I present a Pipes example where I do just that. The tablesIn this example I have a PUBLISHERS table stored in a CSV file at http://www.btinternet.com/~lotontech/pipes/data/Publishers.csv, and a BOOKS table stored as a CSV file at http://www.btinternet.com/~lotontech/pipes/data/Books.csv. The PUBLISHERS table contains: PUBLISHER,URL LOTONtech,http://www.lotontech.com Wrox,http://www.wrox.com Wiley,http://www.wiley.com SAMS,http://www.sams.com The BOOKS table contains: PUBLISHER,BOOK,URL LOTONtech,Mashup Case Studies with Yahoo! Pipes,http://www.lulu.com/content/2403205 LOTONtech,Creating Google Mashups...,http://search.barnesandnoble.com... LOTONtech,Working with Yahoo! Pipes,http://www.amazon.com... LOTONtech,Introduction to Microsoft Popfly,http://www.amazon.com... Wrox,Professional Visual Studio 2005 Team System,http://www.amazon.com... Wrox,Professional UML with Visual Studio .NET,http://www.amazon.com... Wiley,Web Content Mining with Java,http://www.amazon.com... Apress,Foundations of Popfly,http://www.amazon.com... The resultsMy Pipe at http://pipes.yahoo.com/lotontech/cs_selectandjoin shows the result, in which: - The item Title is taken from BOOKS.Book
- The hyperlink (if you click on the title) is the book's URL taken from BOOKS.URL
- The description is the publisher's web site URL taken from PUBLISHERS.URL
Items are only included where the key values BOOKS.PUBLISHER and PUBLISHERS.PUBLISHER match, so the results exclude publisher SAMS (which appears in PUBLISHERS but not in BOOKS) and Apress (which appears in BOOKS but not in PUBLISHERS). The PipesThe basic pattern is to have a Pipe which traverses one of the feeds / tables, which — for each entry — invokes a sub Pipe that traverses the other feed / table. My Pipe LOTONtech-CS-SelectPublishersJoinBooks at http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.edit?_id=ehxw9rcl3RGkb6_InkartA reads the PUBLISHERS CSV file and, for each entry, passes the two fields PUBLISHER and URL into the sub Pipe LOTONtech-CS-SelectBooksJoinPublisher. My Pipe LOTONtech-CS-SelectBooksJoinPublisher at http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.edit?_id=gPCyKrcl3RG9ih2gyp1_DQ reads the BOOKS CSV file and combines into every entry the two fields (from PUBLISHERS) that were passed in; thus forming a cross-product of all possible combinations. Since we don't want all possible combinations, it then filters to retain only those where the PUBLISHER field in BOOKS matches the PUBLISHER field passed in from PUBLISHERS. Other ConsiderationsSince the first Pipe (what I call the Outer Loop) reads its file only once, and the second Pipe (what I call the Inner Loop) reads its file each time it is invoked with an entry from the Outer Loop, it should be more efficient to read the longer file (BOOKS) in the Outer Loop and the shorter file (PUBLISHERS) in the Inner Loop. But I didn't think it was so intuitive for my example. About the authorTony Loton is author of the following mashup development books, all available at http://www.lotontech.com/it_books.htmMashup Case Studies with Yahoo! PipesWorking with Yahoo! Pipes, No Programming RequiredCreating Google Mashups with the Google Mashup EditorIntroduction to Microsoft Popfly, No Programming Required    2008 Apr 21 I'm pleased to announce that my latest book Mashup Case Studies with Yahoo! Pipes is now available as paperback or PDF at http://www.lulu.com/content/2403205DescriptionThis book is all about developing web content mashups using the popular Yahoo! Pipes web-based development environment. The case studies demonstrate a range of practical, innovative uses for Yahoo! Pipes mashups in scenarios such as Affiliate Marketing, Selling Online, Price Comparison, Stock Trading, Mapping, and Integrating Other Mashup Technologies. The example solutions demonstrate not-so-obvious Yahoo! Pipes features and techniques including: * Processing RSS, CSV, and JSON formats. * Embedding Pipes Results in Web Pages. * Invoking Sub Pipes and Pipe URLs. * Rendering Results as Maps and Lists. * HTML (Screren) Scraping. 2008 Mar 28 In Chapter 7 of my book Working with Yahoo! Pipes, No Programming Required I described how a Yahoo Pipe's RSS output could be embedded in a web page using an Inline Frame. I also described how user inputs could be captured using a HTML form, to be passed as parameters to the Pipe. Although I mentioned other third-party offerings for embedding Pipe results in a web page, at the time of writing I didn't include some additional techniques for embedding a Pipe's JSON output directly in a page. JSON and JavaScriptMy model example can been seen by pointing your browser at http://www.btinternet.com/~lotontech/pipes/html/PipeJSON.htmlTo see how it is done, use your browser's View Source or View Page Source option. Create your own HTML page with exactly the same source code, and simply change my Pipe Id for your own. Get as a BadgeMore recently, Yahoo! has introduced the Get as a Badge feature that you can access from the Pipe's web page; for example at http://pipes.yahoo.com/lotontech/cs_sector_chartsYou can choose wether to put the badge on TypePad, Blogger, WordPress, iGoogle, or Embed it in your own web page. 2008 Mar 19 2008 Mar 13 I'm pleased to announce that my new book " Creating Google Mashups with the Google Mashup Editor" is now available for download as a PDF at http://www.lulu.com/content/2195683DESCRIPTION The Google Mashup Editor (GME) is an online development environment for creating mashups – web applications that draw data from various sources, process it, and present it in novel ways. In this book you will: * Become familiar with the GME environment. * Learn about the gm: tags that underpin Google mashup applications. * Learn core techniques for reading and writing data feeds, for handling events, and for utilizing the JavaScript API. * Review example GME applications devised by the Google team and others. * Develop a comprehensive case study application. * Make mashups available by publishing them, embedding in web pages, and distributing as Google Gadgets. * Integrate GME applications with Yahoo! Pipes, for even more innovative solutions. * Devise solutions to reader exercises; and learn from the model answers provided.
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