To all potential PN50B850/860 “thin” plasma buyers please be aware that the abnormally loud buzz exhibited by these sets is deemed “normal” by Samsung and no exchange or replacement will be performed. Buy a different brand.
The sets have been returned in droves to Best Buy and other retailers because of the buzzing noise they make. [...]
Im still stunned by the entire unlikelihood of this but I thought I’d share the moment.
So Im driving along, and my iphone chirps at me, I reach out and see that its a meeting reminder. Being lazy I drop the phone in my lap. A few minutes later it slides off to the side of [...]
Last year I was invited to present at the Qcon conference in San Francisco. It was originally scheduled as a Pipes talk but the fortunate timing (shortly after YQL had launched) enabled me to cover both Pipes and YQL. InfoQ has just released the talk (video and slides) on their web site, so if you’re [...]
I’ve found that most after-sales support for products and services is pretty terrible. Trying to diagnose problems with my Apple airport extreme, or fix an issue with a DSL connection for example, tend to leave you feeling frustrated and seem to always be excruciating.
Not so with my Nikon D60. Just over a month after getting [...]
Check out the change log for some of the highlights.
One of the new tables is pretty cool, as requested;) :
select * from microformats where url=’http://wait-till-i.com’
Try it in the console, under “data”, or just run it from the public entrypoint directly.
Whats so interesting about the table, apart from the great microformat data it spits out, is [...]
DevX has published a quick introduction to YQL I wrote.
They got a few edits into the document that I didn’t get a chance to look at over the xmas hols before it was published – so there are a couple of odd phrases here and there. However all in all I hope it gives [...]
We pushed a shiny new (to use Nagesh’s terms) YQL out yesterday and here’s a quick overview of the new things (beyond fixes mainly to the HTML and XHTML handling). Our docs are about to catch up but for those of you interested in the new feature list, here we go:
@var substitution from GET query [...]
Today we pushed the latest version of YQL live, and it now supports a new “public” endpoint:
http://query.yahooapis.com/v1/public/yql?q=show%20tables
Unlike the oauth entrypoint, that requires oauth signing and so on, this one needs no signing, no app id, no nothing – just your query. Its that easy.
So you can just run it in a browser: show tables
… and [...]
Some recent discussion about the weather.forecast table lead to a really great example of mixing Yahoo and external services together.
The original poster wanted to get the forecast from the weather.forecast table for a non-US location. The table itself represents these types of location using a special key. For example, Prague (Czech Republic) is EZXX0012.
A followup [...]
We’ve been asked about this a few times: How can I run YQL from javascript with all this oauth stuff, I just want it to work!?
For real day-to-day use, the answer is you shouldn’t as any Javascript only technique inevitably exposes your shared secret. As with most secure APIs you should go via your own [...]
