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Ruby script to get Facebook Like stats for your blog
In spite of my proposed Scala, HTML5, and Mobile learning, I will start this New Year learning Ruby :) – I am about to read Eloquent Ruby, but before that I wanted to wet my apetite with a practical case …
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SELECT * FROM Internet: examples of YQL, a powerful API crawler
YQL (Yahoo! Query Language) is not new, however the concept of a Web Service that accesses Internet data with SQL-like commands, is really cool so should be mentioned on this blog!
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How to scrape a webpage with Perl
I wanted to have a book category list for a potential feature in My Reading List. I found this page. Then I wondered how I could parse the html to reuse the categories. It turned out to be pretty easy in Perl :)
How to import an autocomplete list
This is a trick I learned in need of a specific list. You can check in the firebug console what URL and get variable is running in the background to reproduce the result list.
Finally here: The google+ API
We had to wait a bit but the google+ API was officially launched yesterday. Only public data and posts can be accessed, but it is a start to get familiar with the API.
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Google+ API still due? You can already do stuff …
After playing with some APIs, especially the Facebook one, I cannot wait till Google+ releases its API. However there are ways you can already import your profile and posts!
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Example Facebook PHP SDK: Post to Friend’s wall
I got a question from one of my readers how to automatically post to the Wall of a friend. I started to code a quick example, but I realized it might be valuable to more people, so here is the code and a short howto.
My first week of Perl
… has been quite effective. I already solved some easy to intermediate problems with less code. I am far from mastering the language, but it is one of the few times I saw results this quickly
Also posted in Perl Tagged learning, O'Reilly, parsing, perl, programming, regular expressions 1 Comment
A simple text-to-html parser written in Perl for WordPress
I just finished my first real-life timesaver script in Perl. I got a bit tired of the WYSIWYG WordPress editor to markup my blog posts. It does an insufficient job aligning what I intend to display, which in itself is already a time-consuming activity (selecting/clicking). Moreover, I have to peak into the HTML to correct [...]
Also posted in Perl, Wordpress Tagged css, hack, html, markup, parser, perl, productivity, regex, script, text editor, wordpress 2 Comments
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