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Popfly: Building simple and quick apps - Sharjah Airport Arrivals

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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.

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