Posts Tagged “explanations”
Three Reasons Why You Should Use FeedBurner
I just wrote a post on creating a feed using YQL and Pipes. Now that you’ve got a shiny new feed, what to do with it? Well, my suggestion is to run it through a service like FeedBurner, here are three reasons why: Cleaner URL What you may have noticed if you read that post is [...]
Screen Scraping and Creating a Feed with YQL and Yahoo! Pipes
Dav Glass recently asked if anyone could build him an RSS feed of the YUI download page using YQL and Pipes. I was somewhat confident of my Pipes and YQL skills so I decided to take a crack at it. The first thing I did was to scrape the page’s contents using YQL. Scraping with [...]
The Crisis of Credit Visualized
Jonathan Jarvis has made an awesome video that brilliantly explains what just happened to the U.S. economy. It’s called “The Crisis of Credit Visualized” and it’s definitely worth the watch. I’ve embedded it below for your viewing pleasure. The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.
5 Embarrassing Grammatical Mistakes
Improve your writing by reading Martha Brockenbrough’s article: 5 Embarrassing Grammatical Mistakes.
Do you know how to write a hyperlink correctly? You might be surprised.
I recently covered proper URI design after which I was rightly chastised for not following my own advice. Now I’d like to cover their correct implementation via hyperlinks. Knowing how to correctly create hyperlinks is very important for several reasons, not the least of which being that hyperlinks are the most basic and foundational component [...]