Coming August 1st! http://lego.cuusoo.com/ideas/view/96
Create your own scraper and endpoints. Sort of…
YQL (Yahoo! Query Language) gives you some possible control over creating scrapers and rest endpoints very quickly. Uses basic SQL syntax. http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/console/?q=select%20*%20from%20html%20where%20url%3D’http%3A%2F%2Fnews.yahoo.com%2Fworld’%20and%20xpath%3D’%2F%2Fdiv%5B%40class%3D%22content%22%5D%2F%2Fdiv%5B%40class%3D%22txt%22%5D%2Fp’#h=select%20*%20from%20html%20where%20url%3D%27http%3A//www.pinterest.com/hersheycompany%27%20and%20xpath%3D%27//*%5Bcontains%28concat%28%22%20%22%2C%20normalize-space%28@class%29%2C%20%22%20%22%29%2C%20%22%20UserInfoBar%20%22%29%5D/ul%27 Hit test, this is a basic scraper that…
The Devil Does Not Cut His Own Grass
In AD 325, at the First Council of Nicaea, many of the bishops came together to consolidate all of the stories of the many versions of the bible that were…
Dont lose focus. Remember WHY you are where you are.
Strategy. $$ can sometimes shift focus from long term strategy to short term strategy. Usually, a successful company is known for something. If you are the best, do not compromise…
Only have Sysomos tweet context? Extract username from URL.
Using regular expressions you can extract the username from a twitter URL. var twitterURL = item.link; var twitterName = twitterURL.match(/https?:\/\/(www\.)?twitter\.com\/(#!\/)?@?([^\/]*)/)[3];
Placeholders in forms for IE9
Took about 3 min to get this in place. IE9 doesnt support placeholders. This adds that functionality with NO changes to existing code. https://github.com/mathiasbynens/jquery-placeholder
Google Analytics – must have filters.
Found these really important filters for anyone managing site analytics through Google Analytics. http://www.netcel.com/Resources/Insights/White-papers/6-must-have-google-analytics-filters/ Specifically the hostname filters, lowercase URLs and the internal IP traffic.
Image of the day: Ominous Clouds
On my way to work this morning.
Perspective and Context in the User Experience
Ever heard the term “Context is key”? This could not be more true in application development. Your users are getting shorter attention spans every time a new content channel is…
Alternative to Bootstrap: Gumby Framework
Good find by my very cool co-worker and partner in crime, Rob Lowe. @rhlowe http://gumbyframework.com/