tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85753712765290948552012-02-16T10:38:33.664-08:00Kimmohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18173266457545633922noreply@blogger.comBlogger21100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575371276529094855.post-81083045232106429642008-09-27T11:10:00.001-07:002008-09-27T11:25:02.525-07:00I just discovered <a href="http://pipes.yahoo.com/">Yahoo Pipes</a> a couple of days ago. After some clicking I got the hang of it and realized all the nice little things that can be done with it. First, as always I took the "a-bit-too-long-road" approach and tried to make an application that fetched an apartment listing rss feed based on the parameters the user put in. With that list it would go to a web page for each item, fetch the address information and plot it on Yahoo Maps. This is all possible and should come together relatively easily. I got it working to the point where the output is a nice JSON structure, but the location information was not fetched.<br /><br />This is the point I realized that maybe Pipes is not meant for this even though it is possible. The end application was sluggish and the tool itself still lacks some basic tools (like extracting a string and outputting it directly to the end pipe).<br /><br />What I ended up doing is piping my <a href="http://www.delicious.com/klahdenk/blogs">delicious blog bookmarks'</a> feeds to a single rss feed. This was dead simple and quick. <a href="http://pipes.yahoo.com/klahdenk/myfeeds">Have a look</a> (a bit sluggish since it fetches all of the feed items for each feed...).<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8575371276529094855-8108304523210642964?l=boxed-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Kimmohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18173266457545633922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575371276529094855.post-21242455780298903072008-09-27T10:03:00.000-07:002008-09-27T10:35:18.719-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ixKwOYUI8g/SN5o0cWcVKI/AAAAAAAAAAM/WZueKLMs42I/s1600-h/ff.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ixKwOYUI8g/SN5o0cWcVKI/AAAAAAAAAAM/WZueKLMs42I/s320/ff.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5250749465733387426" border="0" /></a>I was searching through the net and tried to find out a good looking Firefox theme that was as close to the native theme as possible, but with Vista Aero look-and-feel. <a href="http://community.winsupersite.com/blogs/paul/archive/2008/04/20/firefox-3-and-aero-glass-now-we-re-talking.aspx">This</a> is what I found. It's exactly what I was looking for... great!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8575371276529094855-2124245578029890307?l=boxed-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Kimmohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18173266457545633922noreply@blogger.com0