Tarpipe implemented a REST connector a short while ago. This is something that I and others have been wanting for a while now, so it’s great news. The announcement was quite short and didn’t have much detail. I like to see things visually, and I’m guessing others do too, so I decided to write a [...]
One thing that Tarpipe would really benefit from is a connector that would enable an HTTP request (I’m thinking of POST, here) to be made on an arbitrary resource (URL). This is something that other people have already mentioned — and the Tarpipe folks are certainly working on it.
I couldn’t wait, however, and thought I’d [...]
Is tarpipe.com an early example of a “Programming 2.0″ concept?
I first read about Tarpipe from Curt Cagle’s “Analysis 2009″. In turn, Curt points to Jeff Barr’s post which describes the concept and the implementation very well. It’s a fascinating concoction of Web 2.0 services and visual programming (in the style of Yahoo! Pipes), and in [...]