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Jonathan Lister replied on September 05, 2009 18:52 to the question "Picasa feeds - are they valid sources for Notify.me?" in notify.me:

Further to this post, I've run the feed through Feedburner so it's definitely valid - revised feed at http://feeds.feedburner.com/bcb4test

Have pointed Notify.me at that new feed, no evidence it's working over an hour after posting something.

Jonathan Lister asked a question in notify.me on September 05, 2009 15:31:

Picasa feeds - are they valid sources for Notify.me?

Adding picasa feeds as a source doesn't seem to generate anything. For example, this is the feed of one of my public folders, which I've confirmed I can access without being logged into Google:
http://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed...

I've added it as a source to Notify.me, but I'm not getting any mail notifications when I post pictures (which updates the feed).

Could someone check this for me please?

Thanks,

J.

Jonathan Lister replied on August 27, 2009 16:49 to the idea "Adding extra data field for use as label" in Inkling Software:

Yes, that's exactly what I'd like - annotations. My use case is a company bank balance - each update to the balance has an associated transaction and I'd like to display that when you hover over/click on a point.

I have a chart in my Google Spreadsheet that originates the data, and this does not support annotations, so this feature would set you apart.

J.

Jonathan Lister shared an idea in Inkling Software on August 27, 2009 13:37:

Adding extra data field for use as label

It would be great if I could upload an extra data field for use as a label for my datapoints. I'd use this to show the description of the event that created the datapoint.

Jonathan Lister replied on August 27, 2009 13:06 to the idea "Quicker load of imported data" in Inkling Software:

Brilliant, thanks! And thanks for the quick response.

Jonathan Lister shared an idea in Inkling Software on August 27, 2009 12:43:

Quicker load of imported data

Hi, just imported a 708-row csv data-set published from Google Spreadsheets - it's been sitting at the "Your series is being created behind the scenes." screen for about 10 minutes. I don't think this is very cool - can it be made faster?

Thanks,

J.

Jonathan Lister replied on August 14, 2009 15:45 to the problem "Sending an email to a workflow not working" in tarpipe:

It was being forwarded from Google Pipes

Jonathan Lister replied on August 12, 2009 13:33 to the problem "Sending an email to a workflow not working" in tarpipe:

Nope.

Jonathan Lister reported a problem in tarpipe on July 20, 2009 16:16:

Sending an email to a workflow not working

What's going on? Sometimes when I am testing out workflows by sending emails, the workflows stop executing.

I can see that there's a problem because the inbound email are not showing up on the activity tab.

Anybody know why this might happen and how to prevent it? Is there a rate limit on inbound email?

Thanks,

J.

Jonathan Lister started following the idea "Better error reports when workflows fail." in tarpipe.

Jonathan Lister started following the question "Is it possible to update other services using feeds as receptors?" in tarpipe.

Jonathan Lister asked a question in tarpipe on July 06, 2009 15:11:

Workflows with unused boxes never get triggered

Seems that if you don't connect up all the boxes you drop on the canvas, a workflow is never triggered, in that activity is never registered.

This is my experience with a minimal workflow, perhaps someone else can confirm.

J.

Jonathan Lister replied on June 12, 2009 16:08 to the idea "Sending to Yahoo! Pipes" in tarpipe:

Hello? Is this not cool?

Jonathan Lister replied on June 05, 2009 18:01 to the idea "Sending to Yahoo! Pipes" in tarpipe:

Hey Bruno,

Ok, I've made a proxy that sits between tarpipe and Yahoo! Pipes and handles the conversion of data formats. It's here: http://tarpipe-yahoo_pipes_proxy.jgat...

You use it as the serviceURL for a REST connector. It needs a parameter ?pipeId=someYahooPipeID on the end, where this points to the pipe that is going to do the processing.

If you take a look at the tarpipe workflow with ID 931a3b4c89f1a16a73ce370d114b266f you can see this in action.

An example (very simple) Yahoo! Pipe is at:
http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.inf...

How's that?

J.

Jonathan Lister replied on June 05, 2009 13:52 to the idea "Sending to Yahoo! Pipes" in tarpipe:

Yes indeed! I realised that shortly after I'd posted, so apologies for my own confusion.

A comment on the idea "Sending to Yahoo! Pipes" in tarpipe:

Sorry about the whitespace not working out - I had put tabs in! – Jonathan Lister, on June 04, 2009 15:51

Jonathan Lister replied on June 04, 2009 15:51 to the idea "Sending to Yahoo! Pipes" in tarpipe:

Hey Bruno,

I had a go at making a Pipe that works for me. I can do the string parsing to get at the information in the JSON-encoded string. The next problem is sending the information back to tarpipe...

According to this blog post - http://www.pipetree.com/qmacro/blog/2... - the REST connector expects data back as a string like so:

{
"items":[
{
"title": "The response!",
"description": "Long text description of the response",
"link": "http://example.org/banana/"
}
]
}

This is inconsistent with the JSON output format used by Yahoo! Pipes (which you seem to want to be consistent with given your previous comments), which looks like this:

{
"count":1,
"value": {
"title":"convert from tarpipe (description only)",
"description":"Pipes Output",
"link":"http:\/\/pipes.yahoo.com\/pipes\/pipe.info?_id=lAUEoB1R3hGTqt6hggSecQ",
"pubDate":"Thu, 04 Jun 2009 15:44:32 +0000",
"generator":"http:\/\/pipes.yahoo.com\/pipes\/",
"callback":"",
"items":[{
"title":"converted from tarpipe",
"description":"Any description"
}]
}
}

The important difference is that the 'items' array is contained in the 'value' object, not the root object.

Thoughts?

J.

Jonathan Lister replied on June 04, 2009 13:28 to the idea "Sending to Yahoo! Pipes" in tarpipe:

Thanks Bruno, I'll have a go making a pipe that chops out the information. It would be a lot easier to have an option on the REST block so it just POSTed form-encoded key/value pairs.

tite=this&description=that

What do you think?

J.

Jonathan Lister replied on June 04, 2009 13:06 to the idea "Sending to Yahoo! Pipes" in tarpipe:

Hi Bruno,

Sorry my examples were not very clear!

What I am trying to do is use Yahoo! Pipes as an intermediate step in my tarpipe workflow to process the email text that comes into the workflow.

Do you have any ideas how I could do this?

My complaint was that using the REST block in tarpipe is not very useful for POSTing to a Yahoo! Pipe.

J.

Jonathan Lister replied on June 04, 2009 10:42 to the idea "Sending to Yahoo! Pipes" in tarpipe:

Hey Bruno!

What I'm doing is capturing the 'data' parameter that's POSTed to Pipes by declaring it as a user input and using the 'item builder' to assign that to the 'content' property of an item.

The problem is that the data POSTed from tarpipe is sent as JSON, which is just read in as a string in the pipe, so your 'content' property ends up with a messy JSON string as its value.

I've knocked up a test pipe and workflow so you can see how this works. Send an email to ably39hoys@tarpipe.net - this goes through the workflow with ID 3ded214ccd3991d9664abf6335dc49fd and through the Yahoo! Pipe at http://pipes.yahoo.com/jayfresh/fromt... - the pipe POSTs whatever it has been sent to http://postin.appjet.net, where you'll be able to see how pipes encoded the data sent from appjet.

This is a screenshot of http://postin.appjet.net showing what I'm talking about:
http://img.skitch.com/20090604-r333ja...