Working With Yahoo! Pipes, No
Programming Required by Tony
Loton
Who Knew That A Computer Dope Like Me Could Make Dynamic Websites?
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 Editors 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
dont worry, the answers are given too!
Personal Review: Working With Yahoo! Pipes, No Programming
Required by Tony Loton

Pipes are soo cool!
Okay, so now I sound like a total geek ("three more missions and I get my
Spock ears!"). Don't let the cover of this book scare you. Pipes are just
what they sound like. I find something on YOUR website and I get it to
appear on MINE! This should be illegal! :-)
Here's how I see it: As an author I have always wondered how webpages
take the info from Amazon and put it on their page. It seems like a lot of
work to hand code all of this, and I just couldn't imagine a "silver bullet"
software that magically got my book's current ranking, title, cover image
and reviews (and a handful of sunshine and rainbows while they were at it)
from Amazon.com and put it on THEIR site.
But here's the part that is seriously freaking me out. After reading this
book, I actually "get it." I understand what this guy is talking about. The
visuals really help. When the author said "no programming necessary" I
laughed out loud--yeah, right!
Okay, so I am not laughing now. I am honestly excited about this. I feel
that I can go to Yahoo and do all of this stuff for free and start bringing in
fresh new content for MY book's websites, fun and interesting news feeds,
games, even a stock purchase plan, just for laughs. I am still a little
questionable about the stock "buy and sell" part, but it seems that my
website can possibly become smarter than I am, pulling data directly from
the exchange and reaching into my wallet and making transactions on an
"IF (the stock is this price) THEN (sell! sell!)" scenario. Again, what is scary
is that I am really starting to believe that I can actually DO this. I am going
to read this book again, and this time I am going to try everything (not just
the exercises), and see if I can create a monster website that takes over
the world. Other than a new title for this book (a friendlier one), the only
thing I suggest is that every self-published author seriously gets their hand
on a copy of this book and starts making their websites a-mazing. Okay
thanks for reading. I am off to read this book again.
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