Foundations of Popfly: Rapid Mashup Development [Paperback]

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. Its 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.

This book introduces readers to Popfly and shows them everything they need to start creating hybrid web applications without the need to know any code. It allows anybody to quickly and easily create fun and useful mashup applications.

Author Eric Griffin shows you how to mix applications and share your hybrids with the world, using the Popfly Mashup Creator and Popfly Web Page Creator.A table of contents is not available for this title.Eric Griffin works as a Microsoft consultant. He is based in Atlanta and specializes in Microsoft application development technologies, tools, and platforms. This includes Visual Studio, SQL Server, ASP.NET, C#, Reporting Services, Office, SharePoint Server, and more.

Popfly is a free, revolutionary new technology that lets anybody create Mashups without knowing any code

This book covers every aspect of Popfly from first steps to advanced use

It covers all of the existing blocks so that users can instantly interface with facebook, fickr, Xbox Live, and all of their favorite social networking sites

The author works at Microsoft, so has access to the most up-to-date information

Popfly is Microsofts entry into the burgeoning mashup space. It is a visual, rapid develló&