Tool for Activity and Project Planning

Tato bakalářská práce se zabývá tvorbou aplikace pro plánování a správu projektů a událostí. Práce popisuje návrh a implementaci tohoto řešení. Obsahuje základ pro pochopení standardního kalendářového formátu iCalendar a jeho využití. Dále rozebírá návrh vlastní databáze pro záznamy událostí a zhodnocuje možnosti přímého čtení a editace databáze uživatelem.This bachelor's thesis creates application for scheduling and management projects plus events. Thesis describes suggestion plus implementation hereof solution. It includes background for understanding standard calendar format iCalendar and shows its practical usage. It's described design of databases of contacts and calendar events. Theses is evaluates advantages and disadvantages of used this databases.

Calendaring specification : interoperability of web-based calendar and Palm Pilot

Interoperability is the ability to enable different systems to work together and exchange data. Interoperability between different systems is achieved by using common standards and specifications. This paper talks about our research work on interoperability in Calendaring and Scheduling. There are many calendaring and scheduling software products on the market but only few of them are interoperable. The goal of my research was to make an existing web-based calendaring system ("The Wise Net" or TWN for short) interoperable with other calendaring systems, in particular, the Palm Pilot. A framework is developed for web based TWN calendar after understanding the interoperability issues that are dealt in other systems like Outlook, iPlanet calendar etc. After a complete understanding of the systems it was found that Outlook and other such popular calendaring systems are based on iCal and iTIP protocol standards. My aim was to discover how to make The Wise Net Calendar support these two protocols and develop a common specification for calendaring and scheduling that would support interoperability of TWN and Palm Pilot calendaring systems. An initial working prototype is built to make the TWN calendar interoperable with palm pilot. This application synchronizes TWN calendar with the palm pilot calendar. A prototype is also built for synchronizing address book. TWN users can have a mirror image of their web based calendars on their palm pilots. Conduit Development Kit (CDK403) is used to develop the application. Conduits are software plug-ins for the Hotsync Manager application. They exchange and synchronize data between a desktop computer and a Palm OS platform handheld computer.2002 best estimate for issue date and commencement year based on available information

Serveis col·laboratius d'agenda, contactes i tasques

Estudi sobre els estandars, protocols i tot el funcionament global de les tecnologies existents utilitzats per a la Importació-exportació de l'agenda de contactes, i dels calendaris de tasques (ex.- especificacions de les Vcards i Vcals, prototipus com el Sunbird de Mozilla, ...). Quina es la situació actual d'aquestes tecnologies? Quines són les possibles aplicacions que té? Quins nivells de sincronització permeten, sobre aquestes mateixes dades (contactes i tasques) amb dispositius mòbils (pda's, pocketPC's, telèfons, ...), i amb els gestors més utilitzats (Outlook, Evolution...) Implementació d'una eina de sincronització d'aquestes dades (contactes i calendari de tasques) entre una aplicació web i un dispositiu mòbil (pda's, pocketPC's, sistemes Simbian, telèfons, ...), i amb els gestors més utilitzats (Outlook, ...)El proyecto consta del estudio tanto en el ámbito teórico como en el ámbito práctico de la necesidad, la evolución y la creación de un sistema de calendario. Un sistema de calendario debe permitir la organización temporal de diferentes usuarios de forma simultanea y desde diferentes organizaciones o empresas permitiendo automatizar la desagradecida tarea de la planificación. En los últimos años, múltiples desarrolladores de software han trabajado en la creación de un sistema de calendario, con el objetivo principal de estandarizar un mecanismo común de datos y su acceso a éstos, a fin de conseguir una interoperabilidad real y efectiva. El proyecto estudia los diferentes estándares acordados y analiza algunas de las aplicaciones creadas con más éxito en el mercado, extrayendo los puntos fuertes y los puntos débiles de cada una, así como sus funcionalidades más interesantes. Así mismo se plantea la creación de una aplicación para adentrarnos más en las necesidades y las problemáticas que presenta el desarrollo de una aplicación de este tipo. Una vez extraídas las características más importantes que debe ofrecer un sistema de calendario y adentrados en los estándares que ha de cumplir, se ha procedido a diseñar una aplicación con arquitectura cliente-servidor, cuyo cliente resultaría un cliente de calendario de los ya existentes, y el servidor cumpliría con el estándar WebDAV. Además se ofrecería un portal de gestión a los usuarios para poder acceder y gestionar los recursos. Finalmente se ha conseguido desarrollar y poner en marcha un sistema propio de calendario que cumple con las funcionalidades definidas y que permite trabajar a diferentes usuarios de forma paralela e interoperable

Gestão de eventos integrada em suite de email web

Estágio realizado na Portugalmail - Comunicações S. A. e orientado pelo Eng.ºTese de mestrado integrado. Engenharia Informática e Computação. Faculdade de Engenharia. Universidade do Porto. 200

Sistema administrador de calendaríos distribuido

Una de las tareas más importantes dentro de toda organización consiste en la correcta administración del tiempo para la ejecución de sus objetivos y actividades. Es por tal, un punto de principal interés poseer la información adecuada de todos los miembros de una entidad en un momento dado a fin de realizar una acertada planificación. Con este propósito, existen una variedad de herramientas en el mercado que fluctúan desde las más simples como lo es una agenda personal hasta aquellas herramientas tecnológicas que involucran a corporaciones enteras. Sin embargo, tanto los costos de estas soluciones como el nivel de interoperabilidad o comunicación efectiva entre las mismas varía significativamente de un producto a otro; debido principalmente a que algunas de ellas tienen costos prohibitivos para medianas y pequeñas empresas al poseer licencias propietarias y en otros casos a que la información es almacenada usando estándares propietarios, sin apertura para terceros e incompatibles con otros productos, ligando así a los usuarios permanentemente a voluntad de la empresa desarrolladora. Esta tesis propone el desarrollo de un Sistema de Administración de Calendarios que permita a los usuarios mantener su información de planificación en línea, rigiéndose para ello a los componentes y características descritas en el estándar iCalendar; el mismo que indica la forma de almacenamiento de la información de calendario. Así, el sistema permitirá el registro de eventos, tareas, diarios por parte de múltiples usuarios, quienes podrán compartir la información entre otros miembros del sistema o permitir su publicación a través de la red a fin de que otros puedan conocer la planificación de un individuo y realizar a su vez solicitudes o invitaciones de participación en otros eventos. El sistema además consta de un componente que constituye una extensión de características al Proyecto Mozilla Sunbird, el mismo que es una aplicación de código abierto que fundamenta su desarrollo en los requerimientos eventuales o mejoras propuestas por los miembros de su comunidad. Así, se intentará contribuir al desarrollo del código abierto mediante la colaboración con la comunidad en el cumplimiento de sus objetivos. En el Captulo 1 se explican antecedentes y justificaciones para la realización de esta tesis, se mencionan también los objetivos generales y específicos alrededor de su desarrollo y se indica el perfil de los posibles usuarios del sistema. En el Capítulo 2 se detalla la necesidad de emplear estándares abiertos en el almacenamiento de la información de calendario, se indica brevemente los estándares de calendario existentes; así como también se realiza una comparación de características y compatibilidad de los productos actuales que brindan soporte al estándar iCalendar. En el Capítulo 3 se aborda el tema del Código Abierto sobre el cual se fundamenta el desarrollo de esta tesis, se indican sus características y beneficios; se menciona a la formación de comunidades como parte clave en la evolución del Open Source, y finalmente se explican los objetivos y características del Proyecto y Comunidad de Mozilla Sunbird. En el Capítulo 4 se describe el análisis de los requerimientos funcionales y no funcionales; se detalle el alcance, limitantes y componentes del sistema; además se realiza un análisis de las herramientas usadas en su implementación. En el Capítulo 5 se cubre las características relacionadas con el diseño de la arquitectura del sistema, la base de datos e interfaz del usuario a fin de cumplir con los requerimientos iniciales. En este capítulo se explica también el proceso de implementación del sistema y las pruebas realizadas al mismo. Finalmente se indican conclusiones y recomendaciones obtenidas en el desarrollo de la tesis, y se incluyen los apéndices

Automated Import of Schedule Teacher into MS Outlook Calendar

Import 26/06/2013Cílem této bakalářské práce je navrhnout a následně zrealizovat automatické vkládání rozvrhu pedagoga z rozvrhového systému VŠB-TUO do aplikace MS Outlook. Teoretická část se zabývá analýzou jednotlivých způsobů vkládání dat a jejich srovnání. Dále popisuje strukturu výměnného formátu iCalendar a některých jeho komponentů, možný způsob získávaní rozvrhových dat pedagoga a následnou volbu řešení. Praktická část obsahuje návrh a realizaci internetové aplikace, která bude potřebná data získávat, zpracovávat, a následně převádět do formátu iCalendar a také importovat do aplikace MS Outlook, z možností stažení objektu iCalendar do souboru na počítači.The purpose of this thesis is to design and implement automatic insertion of the teacher’s schedule from the schedule system of VŠB-TUO into MS Outlook. The theoretical part analyzes individual methods of the schedule data insertion and their comparison. It also describes the structure of the exchange iCalendar format and some of its components, the possible ways of obtaining schedule data of the teacher and the subsequent choice of the solution. The practical part includes the design and implementation of web-based application that will acquire required data, process, and subsequently transferred to the iCalendar format and import into MS Outlook, with an option to download iCalendar object to a file on your computer.352 - Katedra automatizační techniky a řízenívýborn

MemoBoard familiar

Dissertação de mestrado integrado em Engenharia e Gestão de Sistemas de InformaçãoSejam quais forem as circunstâncias, quem tem uma vida social ativa, quer seja profissional ou pessoal, já se viu confrontado com a necessidade do uso de um ou mais calendários. Embora o calendário tenda a ter uma conotação pessoal, são muitas as famílias que o usam como a melhor forma de gerir as suas atividades e organizar o tempo de família partilhando por todos o mesmo calendário. Mas se pensarmos em termos de família, esta só existe pela razão da existência de cada um dos seus membros e cada membro para além da vida familiar tem a sua vida pessoal e profissional. Conciliar todos os eventos num único local partilhado, sem comprometimento da privacidade de cada um, torna-se uma tarefa difícil senão impossível. Como forma de contornar esta situação, cada membro vê-se “obrigado” a usar um segundo calendário onde coloca os eventos que não devem ser partilhados no seio familiar. Para ultrapassar esta e outras questões, nesta dissertação propomos a criação de três tipos de exposição de dados nos calendários, de forma a garantir que se possa usar um único sem comprometer a privacidade de cada elemento. Como prova de conceito, foi criada uma plataforma web com um calendário e tarefas com suporte a estes três tipos de exposição, e testado por famílias no seu dia-a-dia durante um período de tempo. Os resultados obtidos permitiram verificar as necessidades que um utilizador que usa um calendário tem, bem como a apetência para o usar em família. Das respostas obtidas, ficou claro que o calendário é um excelente auxiliar de memória já que mais de 80% o usam com esse intuito. Não foram ainda conclusivos até ao momento os resultados sobre a tipificação dos eventos em três possibilidades de exposição, mas tem-se indicações positivas quanto sua utilidade a avaliar pela satisfação manifestada pelas famílias que testaram o protótipo.Whatever the circumstances, those who have an active social life, whether professional or personal, have already felt the need to use one or more calendars. Although calendars tend to have a personal connotation, many families use them as the best way of managing their activities and organize family time by sharing the same calendar. But if we think in terms of family - whose reason for existing is each one of its members - each member, beyond family life, has his own personal and professional life. To combine all events in one shared place without compromising the privacy of each member becomes a difficult task, if not impossible. As a way to get around this situation, each member finds himself "forced" to use a second calendar where he manages the events that are not to be shared with the family. To overcome this and other issues, this dissertation proposal is the creation of three types of data exposure in the calendars, in order to ensure that just one calendar can be used without compromising the privacy of each element. As proof of concept, a web platform with a calendar and tasks supporting these three types of exposure was created and tested by families in their day-to-day life over a certain period of time. The obtained results allowed to observe the needs that a calendar user has, as well as the willingness to use it in the family unit. The obtained answers made clear that the calendar is an excellent memory aid since more than 80% use it for that purpose. The results have so far not been conclusive in what concerns the typification of events in three exposure possibilities, but there are positive indicators regarding their usefulness judging from the satisfaction expressed by the families who are tested the prototype

Navigating the Windows Mail database

The Extensible Storage Engine (ESE) database is used to support many forensically important applications in the Windows operating system, and a study of how ESE is used in one application provides wider insights into data storage in other current and future applications. In Windows 10, WindowsMail uses an ESE database to store messages, appointments and related data; however, field (column) names used to identify these records are hexadecimal property tags, many of which are undocumented. To support forensic analysis a series of experiments were carried out to identify the function of these tags, and this work resulted in a body of related information about the Mail application. This paper documents property tags that have been mapped, and presents how Windows Mail artifacts recovered from the ESE store.vol database can be interpreted, including how the paths of files recorded by the Mail system are derived from database records. We also present examples that illustrate forensic issues in the interpretation of email messages and appointment records, and show how additional information can be obtained by associating these records with other information in the ESE database

Pro Web 2.0 Mashups: Remixing Data and Web Services

XXXIII, 603 p. ; 24 cmLibro ElectrónicoEn cub.: Remix the Web to create cutting-edge web applicationsHow many times have you seen a web site and said, “This would be exactly what I wanted— if only . . .” If only you could combine the statistics here with data from your company’s earnings projections. If only you could take the addresses for those restaurants and plot them on one map. How often have you entered the date of a concert into your calendar with a single click instead of retyping? How often do you wish that you could make all the different parts of your digital world—your e-mail, your word processor documents, your photos, your search results, your maps, your presentations—work together more seamlessly? After all, it’s all digital and malleable information—shouldn’t it all just fit together? In fact, below the surface, all the data, web sites, and applications you use could fit together. This book teaches you how to forge those latent connections—to make the Web your own—by remixing information to create your own mashups. A mashup, in the words of the Wikipedia, is a web site or web application “that seamlessly combines content from more than one source into an integrated experience.”1 Learning how to draw content from the Web together into new integrated interfaces and applications, whether for yourself or for other others, is the central concern of this book.¿Cuántas veces ha visto usted a un sitio web y le dijo: "Esto sería exactamente lo que quería- si sólo. . . "Si sólo pudiera combinar las estadísticas aquí con los datos de las ganancias de su empresa proyecciones. Si tan sólo pudiera tener las direcciones de los restaurantes y colócalas en una mapa. ¿Cuántas veces has entrado en la fecha de un concierto en su calendario con un solo clic en lugar de volver a escribir? ¿Con qué frecuencia desea que usted podría hacer todas las diferentes partes de su mundo digital, el correo electrónico, los documentos procesador de textos, fotos, resultados de la búsqueda, sus mapas, sus presentaciones, trabajar juntos con mayor perfección? Después de todo, todo es digital y maleable que la información shouldn't a sólo encajan entre sí? De hecho, debajo de la superficie, todos los datos, sitios web, y aplicaciones que utiliza podría encajar. Este libro te enseña a forjar esas conexiones latentes a hacer de la web su propio por información remezcla para crear su propia mashups. Un mashup, en palabras de la Wikipedia, es un sitio web o aplicación web "que combina a la perfección el contenido de más de una fuente en una experiencia integrada. "1 Aprender a dibujar el contenido de la Web junto a nuevos interfaces integradas y aplicaciones, ya sea para usted o para otros, es el centro de preocupación de este libro.The modern Web is awash with data and services just waiting to be used, but how do you make effective use of all this information? The answer lies in APIs (such as Google Maps, Flickr, and Amazon Web Services) and remixing, or mashups. "Pro Web 2.0 Mashups: Remixing Data and Web Services" teaches you everything you need to create useful, dynamic real-world applications using APIs, web services, Ajax, web standards, and server-side languages. All you need to make full use of this book is basic knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and at least one server-side language (such as PHP or ASP.NET). Highlights include the following: Looks at the overall shape of todays Web from a developers point of view--what are its main features, and what is available for us to use to develop applications? Contains real-world examples of creating mashups using all the major APIs. Contains examples written in multiple server-side languages. What you'll learn Understand how the constituent parts of the modern Web fit together--web standards, Ajax, APIs, libraries, tagging, blogs, wikis, and more. Create different types of mashup, for example mapping mashups, search functionality, calendars, RSS/Atom feeds, social bookmarking, online storage systems, open document formats, and more. Build Web 2.0 applications using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Ajax, server-side languages, APIs, and libraries Who is this book for? This book is for any web developer who is already comfortable with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and at least one server-side language and wants to learn how to create Web 2.0 applications. About the Apress Pro Series The Apress Pro series books are practical, professionaltutorials to keep you on and moving up the professional ladder. You have gotten the job, now you need to hone your skills in these tough competitive times. The Apress Pro series expands your skills and expertise in exactly the areas you need. Master the content of a Pro book, and you will always be able to get the job done in a professional development project. Written by experts in their field, Pro series books from Apress give you the hard-won solutions to problems you will face in your professional programming career. Related Titles Beginning Google Maps Applications with PHP and Ajax: From Novice to Professional Beginning Google Maps Applications with Rails and Ajax: From Novice to Professional Building Flickr Applications with PHP Pro DOM Scripting with Ajax, APIs and Libraries Pro Ajax and the .NET 2.0 Platform Pro Ajax and Java Frameworks.About the Author xxi About the Technical Reviewer xxiii Acknowledgments xxv Introduction xxvii PART 1 Remixing Information Without Programming CHAPTER 1 Learning from Specific Mashups 3 Looking for Patterns in Mashups 3 Housingmaps.com5 What Is Being Combined? 5 Why Are the Constituent Elements Being Combined? What’s the Problem Being Solved? 5 Where Is the Remixing Happening? 6 How Are These Elements Being Combined? 6 Comparable Mashups 7 Google Maps in Flickr 7 What Is Being Combined? 8 Why Are the Constituent Elements Being Combined? What’s the Problem Being Solved? 8 How Are These Elements Being Combined? 12 Comparable Mashups 13 LibraryLookup Bookmarklet13 Configuring a LibraryLookup Bookmarklet 14 Invoking the LibraryLookup Bookmarklet 15 How Does This Mashup Work? 16 How Can This Mashup Be Extended?17 Comparable Mashups 18 Tracking Other Mashups 18 Summary 18 vii CHAPTER 2 Uncovering the Mashup Potential of Web Sites 21 What Makes Web Sites and Applications Mashable 22 Ascertaining the Fundamental Entities of the Web Site22 Public APIs and Existing Mashups 23 Use of Ajax 24 Embedded Scriptability 24 Browser Plug-Ins 25 Getting Data In and Out of the Web Site 25 The Community of Users and Developers 25 Mobile and Alternative Interfaces and the Skinnability of the Web Site 26 Documentation 26 Is the Web Site Run on Open Source? 26 Intellectual Property, Reusability, and Creative Commons 26 Tagging, Feeds, and Weblogging27 URL Languages of Web Sites27 Some Mashups Briefly Revisited 28 Flickr: The Fundamentally Mashup-Friendly Site 29 Resources in Flickr 29 Users and Photos 30 Data Associated with an Individual Photo 33 Tags 34 User’s Archive: Browsing Photos by Date 36 Sets 37 Collections37 Favorites 37 A User’s Popular Photos 38 Contacts 38 Groups 38 Account Management40 Browsing Through Flickr40 Search 41 Geotagged Photos in Flickr 42 The Flickr Organizer 43 Recent Activities44 Mailing Interfaces 44 Interfacing to Weblogs 44 Syndication Feeds: RSS and Atom 45 Mobile Access45 Third-Party Flickr Apps 45 viii CONTENTS Creative Commons Licensing 46 Cameras 46 The Mashup-by-URL-Templating-and-Embedding Pattern 47 Google Maps 49 URL Language of Google Maps 49 Viewing KML Files in Google Maps51 Connecting Yahoo! Pipes and Google Maps 51 Other Simple Applications of the Google Maps URL Language 52 Amazon 53 Amazon Items53 Lists 55 Tags 55 Subject Headings 55 del.icio.us 56 Screen-Scraping and Bots 58 Summary 60 CHAPTER 3 Understanding Tagging and Folksonomies61 Tagging in Flickr 62 Tags in Flickr 63 How Tags Are Used in Practice 63 Creating Your Own Tags 64 Syntax of Tags in Flickr 64 Potential Weaknesses of Tags 65 Singular and Plural Forms of Tags in Flickr 65 Hacking the Tagging System: Geotagging and Machine Tags 66 Interesting Apps Using Flickr Tags 67 Tagging in del.icio.us 67 Mechanics of Adding Tags in del.icio.us 68 Dealing with Case and Multiword Phrases 68 Getting More Information 69 Gathering Content Through Tags in Technorati71 Searching Technorati with Tags71 How Technorati Finds Tags on the Web 72 Word Inflections and Syntactic Constraints in Technorati Tags 72 Using Tags to Mash Up Flickr and del.icio.us 72 Other Systems That Use Tagging 73 Relationship of Tags to Formal Classification Schemes 73 Summary 75 CONTENTS ix CHAPTER 4 Working with Feeds, RSS, and Atom77 What Are Feeds, and Why Are They Important? 78 RSS 2.0 78 RSS 1.0 80 Atom 1.0 82 Extensions to RSS 2.0 and Atom 1.0 84 Feeds from Flickr86 Flickr Feed Parameters 86 Examining the Flickr Feeds 87 Exchange Formats Other Than RSS and Atom 90 Feeds from Other Web Sites 92 Finding Feeds and Feed Autodiscovery 93 Feeds from Weblogs 94 Wikipedia Feeds94 Google and Yahoo! News 95 News Aggregators: Showing Flickr Feeds Elsewhere 96 Validating Feeds98 Scraping Feeds Using GUI Tools 98 Remixing Feeds with Feedburner 99 Remixing Feeds with Yahoo! Pipes 100 A Simple First Pipe with Yahoo! News 101 Google News and Refactoring Pipes102 Wikinews and NY Times: Filtering Feeds 103 Pulling the Feeds Together 104 Summary 104 CHAPTER 5 Integrating with Blogs 105 Integration Scenarios for Blogs 105 Sending Flickr Pictures to Blogs 106 Configuring Flickr for Integration with Blogs107 Blogging a Flickr Picture110 How Does the Flickr Blog Integration Work?110 Desktop Blogging Tools 111 Combining Feeds and Blogging to Generate Feedback Flows113 Flock: Bringing Together Blogs and Flickr 114 RSD: Discoverability of Blog APIs 115 Linkbacks 116 Wiki Integration at an Early Stage 116 Summary 117 x CONTENTS PART 2 Remixing a Single Web Application Using Its API CHAPTER 6 Learning Web Services APIs Through Flickr 121 An Introduction to the Flickr API 122 What Does This XML Response Mean? 124 What Can You Do with the XML Response? 126 API Documentation, Community, and Policy 128 Terms of Use for the API 128 Using the Flickr API Explorer and Documentation 129 Calling a Basic Flickr API Method from PHP 132 HTTP Clients 133 A Refresher on HTTP 134 XML Processing 138 Pulling It All Together: Generating Simple HTML Representations of the Photos 143 Where Does This Leave Us?145 The Flickr API in General 145 Using flickr.reflection Methods 146 Querying the Flickr Reflection Methods with PHP 149 Request and Response Formats 154 Flickr Authorization 156 Why Passing Passwords Around Doesn’t Work Too Well157 Authorization for Web Apps 157 Using Flickr API Kits 165 PEAR::Flickr_API 165 phpFlickr 166 Phlickr 168 Limitations of the Flickr API 169 Summary 170 CHAPTER 7 Exploring Other Web APIs 171 XML-RPC172 What’s Happening on the Wire? 176 Using Wireshark and curl to Analyze and Formulate HTTP Messages 177 Parsing XML-RPC Traffic178 CONTENTS xi SOAP 181 The Dream: Plug-and-Go Functionality Through WSDL and SOAP 181 geocoder.us 182 Amazon ECS 191 The Flickr API via SOAP195 Learning About Specific Web APIs 195 Programmableweb.com 196 YouTube 198 GData and the Blogger API 199 Using the Blogger API As a Uniform Interface Based on HTTP Methods203 Summary 204 CHAPTER 8 Learning Ajax/JavaScript Widgets and Their APIs 205 What You Need to Know206 What Difference Does Ajax Make? 207 Learning Firebug, DOM Inspector, and JavaScript Shell 208 Using the DOM Inspector 208 Using the Firebug Extension for Firefox 208 Using the JavaScript Shell 210 Working with JavaScript Libraries 210 YUI Widgets211 Using the YUI Calendar 211 Installing YUI on Your Host 212 Learning Google Maps 213 Accessing Flickr via JavaScript217 Using Greasemonkey to Access New York Times Permalinks 220 Learning More About JavaScript and Ajax 223 Summary 223 PART 3 Making Mashups CHAPTER 9 Moving from APIs and Remixable Elements to Mashups 227 Getting Oriented to ProgrammableWeb 228 User-Generated Data in ProgrammableWeb 228 Can Any Directory of Mashups Keep Up? 228 Learning About the Overall Mashup Scene 229 xii CONTENTS Directory of Mashups 230 Using Feeds to Track Mashups 230 Using Tags to Describe Mashups 231 API and Mashup Verticals 233 Looking at a Specific Mashup Profile233 Going from a Specific API to Mashups234 Sample Problems to Solve Using Mashups235 Tracking Interesting Books235 Knowing When to Buy Airplane Tickets 239 Finding That Dream House240 Mapping Breaking News 241 Summary 242 CHAPTER 10 Creating Mashups of Several Services 243 The Design 244 Background: Geotagging in Flickr245 Background: XMLHttpRequest and Containing Libraries 248 Using XMLHttpRequest Directly248 Using the YUI Connection Manager250 Building a Server-Side Proxy253 What Happens with XHR and Direct API Calls?253 Building a Server-Side Script for Geolocated Photos255 Building a Simple Client-Side Frame 257 Reading and Writing Elements257 Handling Simple Events to Connect Form Input and Display Calculations 260 Hooking the Client-Side Framework to Flickr 261 Writing a URL for Querying flickrgeo.php 262 Using XHR via the YUI Connection Manager to Read the JSON 262 Converting the JSON to HTML 264 Mashing Up Google Maps API with Flickr 266 Setting Up a Basic Google Map 267 Making the Map Respond to Changes in the Viewport of the Map268 Bringing Together the Flickr and GMap Code 269 Wiring Up the Bounding Box of the Google Map270 Making the Pictures Show Up in the Map 272 Google Mapplet That Shows Flickr Photos 277 Summary 281 CONTENTS xiii CHAPTER 11 Using Tools to Create Mashups 283 The Problem Mashup Tools Solve284 What You Are Making in This Chapter 284 Making the Mashup: A Step-by-Step Example286 Familiarizing Yourself with the Google Mashup Editor287 Reading and Displaying a Feed (Simple Template) 288 Introducing a Custom Template289 Using Yahoo! Pipes to Access Flickr 291 Displaying Flickr Photos Using 292 Adding JavaScript to the Mashup 294 How to Persist Feeds and Use Tabs 299 The Final Product: Showing the Saved Entries on a Map 304 Analysis of Trade-Offs in Using GME and Yahoo! Pipes309 Other Mashup Tools 310 Summary 311 CHAPTER 12 Making Your Web Site Mashable313 Why Make Your Web Site Mashable? 314 Using Techniques That Do Not Depend on APIs 314 Use a Consistent and Rich URL Language314 Use W3C Standards to Develop Your Web Site 315 Pay Attention to Web Accessibility315 Consider Allowing Users to Tag Your Content 315 Make Feeds Available 315 Make It Easy to Post Your Content to Blogs and Other Web Sites 316 Encourage the Sharing of Content with Explicit Licenses317 Develop Extensive Import and Export Options for User Content 317 Study How Users Remix Your Content and Make It Easier to Do So 317 Creating a Mashup-Friendly API 317 Learn From and Emulate Other APIs318 Keep in Mind Your Audiences for the API 318 Make Your API Easy to Learn 318 Test the Usability of Your API 319 Build a Granular, Loosely Coupled Architecture So That Creating an API Serves You As Much As It Does Others319 Embrace REST But Also Support SOAP and XML-RPC If You Can 320 xiv CONTENTS Consider Using the Atom Publishing Protocol As a Specific Instantiation of REST 320 Encourage the Development of API Kits: Third Party or In-House320 Support Extensive Error Reporting in Your APIs 321 Accept Multiple Formats for Output and Input 321 Support UI Functionality in the API 321 Include a Search API for Your Own Site 321 Version Your API 322 Foster a Community of Developers322 Don’t Try to Be Too Controlling in Your API322 Consider Producing a Service-Level Agreement (SLA) 322 Help API Users Consume Your Resources Wisely 323 Consider Open Sourcing Your Application 323 Easy-to-Understand Data Standards 323 Summary 324 PART 4 Exploring Other Mashup Topics CHAPTER 13 Remixing Online Maps and 3D Digital Globes327 The Number of Online Maps 328 Examples of Map-Based Mashups329 Making Maps Without Programming 329 Mapbuilder.net 329 Google My Maps 331 A Mashup Opportunity: Mapping Yahoo! Local Collections332 Transforming the Yahoo! Local XML into CSV for Mapbuilder.net 334 Collection Building in Microsoft’s Live Search Maps 336 Summary of Making Maps Without Programming 338 Data Exchange Formats 338 CSV338 Microformats and Metatags for HTML 338 GeoRSS 339 Yahoo!’s Use of GeoRSS and Yahoo! YMaps Extensions 341 KML 345 Interoperability Among Formats: GeoRSS vsKML346 CONTENTS xv Creating Maps by API Programming 346 Google Maps API 347 Yahoo! Maps API351 Microsoft’s Live Search Maps/Virtual Earth354 Geocoding356 Yahoo! Maps 356 Geocoder.us 357 Google Geocoder 358 Virtual Earth 361 Geocoding Non-U.SAddresses363 Google Earth and KML 364 Displaying and Handling KML As End Users 364 KML 368 Programming Google Earth via COM and AppleScript374 Mapstraction and OpenLayers 376 An Integrative Example: Showing Flickr Pictures in Google Earth376 KML NetworkLink 379 Generating the KML for the Photos382 The flickrgeo.php Code383 Summary 393 CHAPTER 14 Exploring Social Bookmarking and Bibliographic Systems 395 The Social Bookmarking Scene 396 Using Programmableweb.com to Examine the Popularity of APIs 396 del.icio.us 397 Using the del.icio.us API 398 Third-Party Tools for del.icio.us405 Third-Party API Kits 405 Yahoo! Bookmarks and MyWeb407 Connotea408 A Flickr and del.icio.us Mashup 412 Summary 416 CHAPTER 15 Accessing Online Calendars and Event Aggregators 417 Google Calendar 418 Setting Up Google Calendar As an End User 418 Exploring the Feed Formats from Google Calendar 420 xvi CONTENTS Using the GData-Based Calendar API Directly 426 Using the PHP API Kit for Google Calendar 434 Using the Python API Kit for Google Calendar 437 30boxes.com 438 An End User Tutorial 439 30boxes.com API 439 Event Aggregators 443 Upcoming.yahoo.com 443 Eventful.com452 Programming with iCalendar 458 Python and iCalendar 458 PHP and iCalendar 460 Exporting an Events Calendar to iCalendar and Google Calendar461 The Source: UC Berkeley Event Calendars 462 Creating an iCalendar Feed of Critic’s Choice Using Python462 Writing the Events to Google Calendar464 Summary 471 CHAPTER 16 Using Online Storage Services 473 Introducing Amazon S3 473 Rationale for S3 474 Conceptual Structure of Amazon S3 475 The Firefox S3 Extension Gets You Started with S3476 Using the S3 REST Interface 477 Listing Buckets Using the REST Interface 480 Using the SOAP Interface to S3481 Amazon S3 API Kits 482 PHP 483 Python 484 Summary 486 CHAPTER 17 Mashing Up Desktop and Web-Based Office Suites 487 Mashup Scenarios for Office Suites 487 The World of Document Markup 488 The OpenDocument Format488 Learning Basic ODF Tags 497 Create an ODF Text Document Without Any Styling of ODF Elements 499 Setting the Paragraph Text to text-body 503 CONTENTS xvii Formatting Lists to Distinguish Between Ordered and Unordered Lists504 Getting Bold, Italics, Font Changes, and Color Changes into Text Spans 505 API Kits for Working with ODF 507 Odfpy 507 OpenDocumentPHP 516 Leveraging OO.o to Generate ODF 518 ECMA Office Open XML (OOXML) 519 Viewers/Validators for OOXML522 Comparing ODF and OOXML 522 Online Office Suites523 Usage Scenarios for Programmable Online Spreadsheets 523 Google Spreadsheets API 524 Python API Kit 524 Mashup: Amazon Wishlist and Google Spreadsheets Mashup528 Zend PHP API Kit for Google Spreadsheets 533 A Final Variation: Amazon Wishlist to Microsoft Excel via COM 535 Zoho APIs 536 Summary 536 CHAPTER 18 Using Microformats and RDFa As Embeddable Data Formats537 Using Operator to Learn About Microformats 537 adr (Addresses) 540 hCard (Contacts) 541 hCalendar (Events)542 geo (Locations)543 tag (Tagspaces) 543 Definitions and Design Goals of Microformats 543 Microformats Design Patterns545 rel-design-pattern 545 class-design-pattern 545 abbr-design-pattern 546 include-pattern546 Examples of Microformats 547 rel-license 547 rel-tag 548 xfn548 xviii CONTENTS xFolk549 geo 549 hCard and adr550 hCalendar 551 Other Microformats 551 Microformats in Practice 552 Programming with Microformats 552 Language-Specific Libraries 552 Writing an Operator Script 553 Studying the Tutorial Script 554 Writing a Geocoding Script556 Resources (RDFa): A Promising Complement to Microformats 557 Reference for Further Study 558 Summary 558 CHAPTER 19 Integrating Search 559 Google Ajax Search 559 Manipulating Search Results 559 Yahoo! Search 561 Yahoo! Images 563 Microsoft Live.com Search 564 OpenSearch 568 Google Desktop HTTP/XML Gateway 570 Summary 571 APPENDIX 573 INDEX 57