Cross Domain Web Mashups with JQuery and Google App Engine
Over the past year some really great tools and practices have appeared for creating web mashups simply and quickly. Google's App Engine allows the easy creation and deployment of servers to provide the source for data. JQuery on the client makes of rich browser side tools utilising the back end data.
This talk will cover how to do mashups from the Python code in Google App Engine, utilising some diverse data sources. It will then move to the front end and complete with Javascript using JQuery and JSONP show how to provide a great cross browser and cross domain application.
The end result is an application in Javascript that can be deployed on any web site quickly with just a few lines of code.
Andy McKay works at Clearwind Consulting and can emailed at andy@clearwind.ca. If you are a web developer you might want to give Arecibo a quick look.
