Extending the weather API with YQL
Daniel Saxil-Nielsen has been playing with our weather API to offer different designs of a web site depending on the weather. In order to get the data from the weather API he hard-coded an RSS feed for Reading, UK and used Yahoo Pipes to filter it....

YQL Blog " Getting stock information with YQL and open data tables
Nice how to on extracting stock data from Yahoo via YQL.

Turning a web folder with data into an API using YQL execute
Yesterday Johan Bouveng challenged me on Facebook with another brain teaser. Johan had found a nice resource for weather forecasts for airports. The data came back in TAF or METAR formats and he already had a parser for this (thank f*** – what a mess...

Python YQL — Python YQL v0.2 documentation
Docs for Python-YQL

Frontloaded and zipped up – the Full Frontal 2009 keynote
Here are the slides, the audio recording and my notes for the keynote of the full frontal conference held yesterday in Brighton, England. It was a blast, thank you Remy and Julie! Slides on SlideshareFrontloaded and zipped up – the full frontal...

Wait till I come! » Blog Archive » Of Hamsters, Feature Creatures and Missed Opportunities – my talk at Fronteers 2009
"How some of the traits we have as developers keep us from evolving and our market from maturing" plus some good stuff on YQL.

Slides from Yahoo!'s presentations at the 2009 Cloud Computing Expo
"Accelerating Innovation with Cloud Computing", "Key Challenges in Cloud Computing and How Yahoo! is Approaching Them", "Walking Through Cloud Serving at Yahoo!", "Yahoo! Scalable Storage and Delivery Services",...

Of Hamsters, Feature Creatures and Missed Opportunities – my talk at Fronteers 2009
The outlineIn this session Chris Heilmann will show how some of the traits we have as developers keep us from evolving and our market from maturing. Instead of picking and choosing from already amazing products we tend to want to build and maintain...

Run YQL query in console: select * from wretch.albumService where guid = me
This uses the new wretch tables

Triplr - SPARYQL
Try these queries in the YQL Console. These are using the sparql.org SPARQL Protocol endpoint built with Jena/ARQ. Be nice!

Overview - YDN
The YQL Web Service enables applications to query, filter, and combine data from different sources across the Internet. YQL statements have a SQL-like syntax, familiar to any developer with database experience.

A call to the YQL console to run a nested query using Jonathan LeBlanc's Weather.com wrapper table and the predefined Yahoo! weather table
There is no guaranteed availability for Jonathan LeBlanc's open table

A call to the YQL console to run a query using Jonathan LeBlanc's Weather.com wrapper table
There is no guaranteed availability for Jonathan LeBlanc's open table

Jonathan LeBlanc's YQL open table wrapping the Weather.com API for fetchin weather data using a freeform string for location
There is no guaranteed availability for this table.

SmartClient quickstart tutorial: News Reader
Tutorial for building a news reader using SmartClient and YQL