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YQL opens up 3rd-party web service table definitions to developers
The Yahoo! Query Language aspires to be the last web service API that the normal developer will ever have to learn. By default we implement 50+ tables that grab data both from Yahoo! web services, some 3rd party web services … Continue reading
Build your own mail analyzer for Mac Mail.app
You’ve probably read about things like Xoopit and Xobni for analyzing both online mail and your outlook mail. As it turns out, Apple has done something great in this regard that I think has been mostly overlooked. Mail.app stores all … Continue reading
Yahoo! Application Platform (YAP) and Yahoo! Query Language (YQL) launch today
Since I moved into the platform group at the beginning of the year I had worked with the YAP and YQL teams to help them define their strategy and direction but without being part of the day-to-day operations. In August, … Continue reading
2008 Olympic Medal Counts by Population
There are obviously a lot of ways to measure how well a country did at the Olympics. This post takes a view that we should look at how many people the country had to draw on in order to send … Continue reading
Yuil is dead! 4hoursearch is now online.
As this was really just a demonstration of the power of Yahoo! BOSS, I have brought the site back as a demonstration site. Additionally, Yahoo! is making the source code to the new site available so anyone with a knack … Continue reading
Yahoo! BOSS is easy — meet Yuil
Updated Yet Again: Relaunched as 4hoursearch including the source code. See this blog entry. Updated Again: Yuil is dead. However, you can always get the same great search results here. Updated: Using Glue I was able to add some simple … Continue reading
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Better Javadoc results using SearchMonkey
When you are searching for things like java.util.HashMap one of the issues that you run into is that it will give you the result with the highest rank which more often than not is the 1.4.2 version of the documentation. … Continue reading
Using Google App Engine to Extend Yahoo! Pipes
Update: A commenter pointed out that you can from django.utils import simplejson instead of including it. Makes this even easier. Yahoo! Pipes has always been a great tool for manipulating data but often you have to go to great contortions … Continue reading
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Tagged google, google app engine, googleappengine, Java, json, pipes, python, web service, yahoo, yahoo pipes
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Using the Yahoo! Mail SOAP API 1.1 from Java’s JAX-WS 2.1
Using the Yahoo! Mail SOAP API 1.1 from Java’s JAX-WS 2.1 Continue reading
Versus: Argue why Foo is better than Bar
Versus: Argue why Foo is better than Bar Continue reading
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