Posts Tagged “yahoo”
Twitter FTW: or how after 10,543 tweets Twitter actually came in handy
For those who may not know, I work for Yahoo! remotely. As such, my development box is 4,795 km (2,980 miles) to the west of me. Now, this isn’t normally a problem, except for today when my box decided to stop responding. And if you don’t believe in Murphy’s Law, today was also Presidents Day [...]
YUICONF 2009, Day 1
What a week! As a new yahoo I attended orientation on Monday and Tuesday, and now I’m enjoying the first annual YUICONF. Late last night Christian Heilmann asked if I could contribute my impressions of the conference’s first day which was just posted to the YDN blog. Happy reading! What I didn’t mention in the [...]
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 [...]