Popfly: Building simple and quick apps - Sharjah Airport Arrivals

pooyad — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 22:12:00 GMT

As those who've attended my sessions will know, I really like Popfly, I think it's the future of how people will build applications, and it's also incredibly cool to demo. It qualified as one of PC World's top 25 most innovative products of the year.

I had some extra time this weekend and built a quick application using Dapper and Popfly. This basically takes the Sharjah Airport Flight Information available as an HTML table and converts it to XML and RSS (using dapper) and then gives it a user interface and process using Popfly.

It was very simple to build and didn't require any code, you can check out the Popfly project yourself. I made 2, one is a silverlight based gadget that filters the list for all "Arrived" flights and shows them in a gadget. The 2nd takes the flight number as user input and returns the status of the flight(s).

Anyone can sign up for Popfly with a LiveID, my projects are shared so you can take them and improve them.

P.S. Anyone using Facebook should also check out the Facebook block in Popfly to create very simple facebook applications, I've already built a few to get my pictures out of facebook and embed them on my personal blog and am working on a slightly more complicated one to bring the richness of Silverlight animations to the slideshows.

Gadgets with Arabic support

pooyad — Thu, 03 May 2007 16:00:00 GMT

Have not tried this myself but it's been announced that Windows Live gallery and Vista Sidebar gadgets in arabic. Submit through the standard process.

If you haven't built gadgets before, they're a lot of fun and very quick to build; start one and let us know what you create.

Update: We now have the first Arabic localized gadget

Pooya's place (in the Gulf) : gadgets

Popfly: Building simple and quick apps - Sharjah Airport Arrivals

Gadgets with Arabic support