With Pakistan
Development Portal, I have tapped into the recent availability of
browser viewing enhancements (via developments in Ajax technology) to
prepare a mashup
for an effective display of Pakistani development indicators, projects
and news.
1. A project database browser using the MIT Exhibit Ajax
browsing/filtering tool with project data fetched from AiDA (first
converted via a Perl script into JSON format.) Internet
Explorer 7.0 had problems displaying all the 1600+ projects available
at AiDA on Pakistan (Firefox had no such problem,) so I filtered only
those with a valid starting date and with an 'ongoing' status. This
gave a list of 300+ projects which could be rendered easily by Internet
Explorer.
2. A newsfeed filtering tool written in Perl which allows the user to
select filtered content fed from Yahoo
News for the news tabs (which in turn are displayed using the YUI AJAX toolkit.)
3. A data transformation Perl script which takes data from the World Bank and
prepares it in the JSON
format required by the Dojo AJAX
Toolkit charting module.