Martin Heller
Contributing Writer

Microsoft Popfly Released

analysis
May 18, 20071 min

John Montgomery is an old friend who is currently at Microsoft. He has alluded to working on a project codenamed "Tuscany" in his blog, but has been quiet about what it actually is, until this morning. Welcome to Popfly demonstrates the technology. The Genesis of Popfly or What I've Been Doing for the Last Year explains what Popfly is and how it came about. Why I Think Popfly is Cool gives J

John Montgomery is an old friend who is currently at Microsoft. He has alluded to working on a project codenamed “Tuscany” in his blog, but has been quiet about what it actually is, until this morning.

Welcome to Popfly demonstrates the technology.

The Genesis of Popfly or What I’ve Been Doing for the Last Year explains what Popfly is and how it came about.

Why I Think Popfly is Cool gives John’s top-ten list.

And, the Popfly Alpha is at https://www.popfly.ms/.

The short summary is that Popfly is an easy way to build and share mashups, gadgets, Web pages, and applications. It requires Microsoft SIlverlight 1.0 Beta, which is available to anyone, but Popfly itself is currently in private alpha. I have sent my request to join in through the normal mechanism (by trying to log in at the Popfly home page), but haven’t yet gotten access.

I’ll let you know more when I have gotten my hands on it.

Martin Heller

Martin Heller is a contributing writer at InfoWorld. Formerly a web and Windows programming consultant, he developed databases, software, and websites from his office in Andover, Massachusetts, from 1986 to 2010. From 2010 to August of 2012, Martin was vice president of technology and education at Alpha Software. From March 2013 to January 2014, he was chairman of Tubifi, maker of a cloud-based video editor, having previously served as CEO.

Martin is the author or co-author of nearly a dozen PC software packages and half a dozen Web applications. He is also the author of several books on Windows programming. As a consultant, Martin has worked with companies of all sizes to design, develop, improve, and/or debug Windows, web, and database applications, and has performed strategic business consulting for high-tech corporations ranging from tiny to Fortune 100 and from local to multinational.

Martin’s specialties include programming languages C++, Python, C#, JavaScript, and SQL, and databases PostgreSQL, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Database, Google Cloud Spanner, CockroachDB, MongoDB, Cassandra, and Couchbase. He writes about software development, data management, analytics, AI, and machine learning, contributing technology analyses, explainers, how-to articles, and hands-on reviews of software development tools, data platforms, AI models, machine learning libraries, and much more.

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