Always wondered what runs the show behind the slick technology that allows one to create a yahoo pipe. Is it YUI? A platform built on YUI? There are other sites (lovelycharts.com etc) which seem to make use of similar looking UIs.
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Complex sites like those tend to run on several different kinds of technologies working in tandem. Typically, you have 3 big "parts":
Yahoo! Pipes seems to use a mix of javascript, HTML, and CSS for the user interface. I can't say for sure what they wrote the server side application in, but it's most likely built on the java or python programming languages. Likewise, it's hard to tell which particular database software they use, but it's likely they use one of the more popular ones out there (MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL). The user interface for Lovely Charts is done in Adobe Flash, which also leads me to believe they use Adobe ColdFusion to handle the application logic on the server. As with Yahoo!, they could be using any of the widely varied databases available. | |||
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