http://simonwillison.net/2010-10-30T07:44:00+00:00Simon Willison2010-10-30T07:44:00+00:002010-10-30T07:44:00+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2010/Oct/30/predictable/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://icant.co.uk/whyyql/">A predictable web of data - the why of YQL</a></strong></p> Christian Heilmann is moving from Yahoo! to Mozilla to head up their evangelism team, and has marked the occasion by releasing the first chapter of a proposed book on YQL. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/christian-heilmann">christian-heilmann</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/mozilla">mozilla</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/yahoo">yahoo</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/yql">yql</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/recovered">recovered</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/evangelism">evangelism</a></p>

2010-03-02T08:14:30+00:002010-03-02T08:14:30+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2010/Mar/2/geoplanet/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://isithackday.com/geoplanet-explorer/">GeoPlanet Explorer</a></strong></p> Chris Heilmann’s YQL powered explorer for the invaluable Yahoo! GeoPlanet / WhereOnEarth dataset. Every API deserves an explorer of some sort. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/apis">apis</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/christian-heilmann">christian-heilmann</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/geoplanet">geoplanet</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/yahoo">yahoo</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/yql">yql</a></p>

2009-05-23T00:36:38+00:002009-05-23T00:36:38+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/May/23/jsplacemaker/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://icant.co.uk/jsplacemaker/">JS-Placemaker - geolocate texts in JavaScript</a></strong></p> Chris Heilmann exposed Placemaker to JavaScript (JSONP) using a YQL execute table. Try his examples—I’m impressed that “My name is Jack London, I live in Ontario” returns just Ontario, demonstrating that Placemaker’s NLP is pretty well tuned. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/christian-heilmann">christian-heilmann</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/geocoding">geocoding</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/geospatial">geospatial</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/javascript">javascript</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/jsonp">jsonp</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/nlp">nlp</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/placemaker">placemaker</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/yahoo">yahoo</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/yql">yql</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/yqlexecute">yqlexecute</a></p>

2008-02-03T22:18:44+00:002008-02-03T22:18:44+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2008/Feb/3/interview/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://developer.yahoo.net/blog/archives/2008/01/interview_simon.html">Interview: Simon Willison on OpenID</a></strong></p> Christian Heilmann interviewed me for the YDN blog. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/christian-heilmann">christian-heilmann</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/interview">interview</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/openid">openid</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/yahoo">yahoo</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ydn">ydn</a></p>

2007-07-11T15:12:45+00:002007-07-11T15:12:45+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2007/Jul/11/return/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://www.wait-till-i.com/index.php?p=465">Return of the HTTP overhead delay</a></strong></p> Christian proposes a neat way of improving page performance, by delaying non-essential images such as avatars until after the rest of the page has loaded. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/avatars">avatars</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/christian-heilmann">christian-heilmann</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/http">http</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/images">images</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/javascript">javascript</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/onload">onload</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/performance">performance</a></p>