Posts Tagged “web development”
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 [...]
New Site Design
If you read this blog in a feed reader, then you won’t notice the change, but I’ve completely redesigned my site. There were two motivating factors behind the redesign. One, I was tired of the green look, and two, I really wanted to simplify the markup. The result is what you see. Suffice it to [...]
A Real-World Example Of Experiential Perspective
I was watching my four and a half year old daughter play Recipe Rhumba! on the Kids’ CBC web site with a banana in one hand and her other hand on the laptop’s trackpad. Now the game requires that you drag and drop recipe items (see the image below) which I figured she wouldn’t be [...]
Making Your Tweets Retweet Friendly
I don’t know how often I’ve wanted to retweet someone’s tweet, only to find that after adding “RT @username” it no longer fits in 140 characters. If I’m adamant about retweeting it, I might try and pare it down a little, but now I’m wasting time and energy. I’m sure that if there were stats [...]