Whilst looking around the open tables in YQL I found a table with earthquake information released by the United States Geological Survey. One thing the RSS feeds returned from that service had was quite a cool picture of Earth with the location as a star: Looking at the source I realised that the image URL […]

Just having spent a lot of time at the amazing open hack day in Bangalore, India I found that most of the questions about starting a hack using Yahoo technology revolved around a few issues: How do I access data on the web/from web services?How do I use YQL from JavaScript or PHP?How do I […]

The third open hack day in India is over and here I am in my hotel room waiting to be picked up for dinner before flying back to London. The last three days were a blur. I talked a lot about hacking, explained technologies and saw a massive avalanche of interest and questions and people […]

I am right now at the open hack day in Bangalore, India and just finished giving the keynote presentation showing people what hacking means and how to present at a hack day: The slides What the hack? The resources I talked about: Yahoo Developer Network for everything about Yahoo offersGoogle Visualisation API for displaying data […]

I’ve just started playing with Google Chrome Extensions heavily inspired by Mark Wubben’s talk at SWDC and of course the first thing I build is something to do with geographical locations. Geo This! adds a little Earth icon to Chrome that, when pressed, analyses the page and shows a map of the locations it found […]