UPDATE! Thanks to kentbrewster.com for showing me the Yahoo Pipes callback feature. With this I was able to write the php mirror file out of the system and have it work purely in js. Please see my latest post with the pure js implementation.
http://comments.deasil.com/2007/02/19/pipejax-pure-javascript-version-yahoo-pipes-to-ajax-bridge/

Categories: javascript · pipes · web2.0

So, back when I had more time (some days ago) I spent a reasonable amount of it playing around with Yahoo Pipes. Recently, I’ve been seeing some concerns that the audience for Pipes is developers who were already doing the things Pipes facilitates in the language of their choice. The concerns are valid, but I [...]

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So, I finished up my new Pipe a bit ago, once I figured out how to add sub-modules to the For Each module. It’s a more interesting Yahoo Pipe than just the technorati one - obviously, I guess, since it incorporates it. The pipe itself is pretty straight forward, it pulls a feed (my rss [...]

Categories: javascript · pipes

Update: I’ve rewritten the AJAXy part of this to simplify the process, please check out the latest new PipeJAX.
Update: So it turns out that the For Each bug in the Pipes IDE was that I’m really stupid. You have to drag the sub-module onto the foreach loop directly from the left nav - not [...]

Categories: javascript · pipes

So, I spent a few minutes poking around Yahoo Pipes, I thought it’d be neat to create a Pipe that grabbed my feed and then did a technorati search to find who else was blogging about what I was blogging about. I was all excited, I came up with a great name for the pipe [...]

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Now all of the interwebs is talking about Yahoo Pipes, I initially thought it was the sort of thing that OO programming was promising - how from then on programming would be done in a visual IDE by connecting these boxes together with lines. That worked out really well, but Pipes turns out to be [...]

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