The outline In this session Chris Heilmann will show how some of the traits we have as developers keep us from evolving and our market from maturing. Instead of picking and choosing from already amazing products we tend to want to build and maintain everything ourselves – and fail at keeping up the quality leaving […]

Displaying photos from Flickr can be daunting. The API needs authentication and the RSS, JSON or LOLcode output is very limited. The way around is using YQL and its Flickr tables. That way it is pretty easy to search Flickr: select * from flickr.photos.search where text=”panda” Try out the Panda search in the YQL console. […]

Yesterday I gave a talk at the Stackoverflow Devdays conference in London and as one example of the powers of YQL, I wrote a GreaseMonkey script that enhances the Stackoverflow question form to automatically add tags to the question. You can see a screencast of the script or install it yourself from GitHub. The script […]

I am about to leave for the London Stackoverflow DevDay, and speakers were asked to keep their slides to a minimum of two pages and then show code instead. Now, here are the “slides” of my talk at the end of the day today: presentation = { intro:’oh, hai’, stuff:{ type:’awesome’, win:{ state:’full’ }, frontend:{ […]

Things that made me happy this morning: A very cool infographic showing the average internet speed and prices around the world – let’s all move to Japan. The Fun Theory is a competition by Volkswagen to make every day things more fun to use. I talked earlier about the Piano stairs, now they also have […]