Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 320 pages
- Published by: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
- Edition: 1st Edition September 24, 2007
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0071496270
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0071496278
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Book Dimensions:
9.3 x 7.5 x 0.8 inches
- Weighs: 1.1 pounds
Product Description
Want to supercharge your website with the latest searching, mapping, shopping, and imaging tools? Now you can build amazing mashups with help from this step-by-step guide.
How to Do Everything with Web 2.0 Mashups shows you how to remix the best of Google, Amazon, Flickr, and eBay to create customized applications. You'll learn to use essential Web 2.0 technologies--including XML, JavaScript, XHTML, and REST--and seamlessly integrate them into your own innovative mashups.
- Build dynamic mashups using XML and JavaScript
- Use MySQL with PHP to retrieve data from databases
- Receive data via RSS and Atom
- Learn to use XMLHttpRequest, XML-RPC, REST, and JSON
- Structure your mashup pages using XHTML
- Incorporate Google searching and mapping technologies
- Integrate Amazon Web Services
- Include Flickr photographs in your mashups
- Tap into eBay tools and map the locations of eBay sellers
- Successfully manage multiple technologies in your mashups
About The Author
Jesse Feiler is the author of numerous technology books about FileMaker, Mac OS X, PERL, PHP, JavaScript, and MySQL. He specializes in creating FileMaker applications for small business and non-profits. Jesse is a regular on Northeast Public Radio WAMC’s Roundtable program.
Reader Reviews
This book is nicely written and provides a good roundup of Web 2.0 technologies for those who have done some programming (e.g. using Java) or some basic web development (hand-coding HTML) and who now want to know how HTML, JavaScript, PHP, SQL, vendor APIs etc. fit together. Four stars for that. For complete beginners, some of the descriptions are reassuringly clear and simple but the PHP and JavaScript code examples might be a step too far. Personally I think that there are easier ways for beginners to create mashups using the newer drag-and-drop mashup environments like Microsoft Popfly, Yahoo! Pipes, and -- ok, this one's not drag-and-drop -- the Google Mashup Editor (GME). Tony Loton, author Introduction to Microsoft Popfly, No Programming Required Working with Yahoo! Pipes, No Programming Required Creating Google Mashups with the Google Mashup Editor Mashup Case Studies with Yahoo! Pipes