Yesterday’s announcement of YQL now supporting insert, update and delete somehow overshadowed another interesting new feature: XML with callback! XML with callback? On first glance having a callback parameter on an XML output doesn’t make any sense. The normal use case of callbacks is to turn JSON data into JSON-P so that you can use […]

A great flickr collection of Lego Minifig re-enactments of classic photos The w3c showing some very dry twitter humour How to fake time travel using twitter Gez Lemon shows how to create accessible drag and drop using ARIA. YQL is now not only read but also insert,update and delete. A great but also very graphic […]

This is a talk I’ve given at the YDN Tuesday on 7th of July 2009 in London. It is an introduction to Placemaker, a new geolocation service by Yahoo. Check the slides, audio and the notes below. Introducing Placemaker Download the PDF - 12MB Listen to the audio on archive.org or download the MP3 - […]

Things that made me happy this morning: Reboot Britain is today and I will pop by – got a cold though :( GeoMaker went nuts after the coverage on TechCrunch – but stayed up ProgrammerFish has the source code of several Atari 7800 games – assembly FTW PHPSecInfo is like phpinfo() but shows you security […]

In preparation for my upcoming tech talk about Yahoo Placemaker I thought I have a bit more fun playing with the API. The main thing I wanted to create is a tool that makes it easy to either get geo content from some text as microformats or as a map to copy and paste without […]