As part of my talk on YQL for Open Hack London I’ve thought of an easy way to get Flickr photos that you are allowed to display in your products and hacks. The wrapper API getFlickrBy works around the somewhat convoluted data returned from Flickr’s API methods and uses YQL to cut the information you […]

With the final planning steps for the London Open Hack Day this weekend, YDN just released two sweet handouts that explain the workings of BOSS and YQL on two pages each: You can download them from the YDN test server, in case you want them in the office: YQL cheatsheet BOSS cheatsheet

Things that made me happy this morning: May the fourth be with you – it is Star Wars Day! The YQL console now lists community open tables from github The Bay Area’s public transport system has a very nice API A nice photo series of old game controllers and consoles as X-Rays James Broad has […]

I love flickr to bits and I especially like the copy and paste boxes for embedding photos on my own photo stream when I check photos in different sizes. What annoyed me is that this is not available on other people’s photos. That’s why I wrote a small GreaseMonkey script that embeds a text box […]

I just came back from Paris where I talked apparently very animated to around 50 developers about all the goodies Yahoo offers developers: Fuel for a great web experienceView more presentations from Christian Heilmann. Get the slides without the notes [PDF, 8.6mb] Get the slides with notes [PDF, 8.6mb] I’ve spent the ride on the […]