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Ajax man charged for stabbing beau
Toronto Sun, Canada By TAMARA CHERRY, SUN MEDIA An Ajax man is accused of holding his girlfriend captive for several hours yesterday, before she escaped with stab wounds to a police station last night. The 35-year-old woman told police she was held captive "all afternoon" … Woman walks into Pickering police station after being stabbed |
Web 2.0 can help companies reduce costs but businesses that have not yet taken advantage of such technologies are unlikely to do so in the current downturn as they view investments in such projects as an “experimental” cost, say analysts. Steve Hodgkinson, public sector research director at Ovum, said companies which already deploy web 2.0 do realise its potential as a cost-saver. However, he …
I am a big fan of YQL, a terribly easy and fuss-free way to access APIs and mix data retrieved from them in a simple, SQL style language. Say for example you want photos of Paris,France from Flickr that are licensed with Creative Commons attribution, you can do this with a single command:
Try it out here and you see what I mean.
The next step of this interface was to open it out to the public. You can define an “Open Table” as a simple XML schema and bring your own API into this interface with that.
One thing that’s been burning on my tongue to tell the world about has been finally released now: YQL execute. Instead of making the YQL language itself much more complex (and thus running in circles) we now allow you to embed JavaScript in the Open Table XML that will run on the YQL server and allow you to access other web services, authenticate and scrape HTML with JavaScript and E4X. As Simon Willison put it:
This is nuts (in a good way). Yahoo!’s intriguing universal SQL-style XML/JSONP web service interface now supports JavaScript as a kind of stored procedure language, meaning you can use JavaScript and E4X to screen-scrape web pages, then query the results with YQL.
Using this, you can augment the original functionality of YQL to whatever you need. For example, you can scrape HTML with YQL using XPATH, but there was no way to use CSS selectors. Using an open table that invokes James Padolsey’s css2xpath JavaScript on the server side, this is now possible.
The data table is pretty easy:
Check the official Yahoo Developer Network blog post on YQL execute for more examples, including authentication examples for flickr and netflix.
Andrée Hansson has created 960 Gridder, a grid layout tool for web developers that you can either use as an integrated component to layout your websites or use it as a bookmarklet. The grid is fully customizable but it defaults to the “960px grid standard”.
960 Gridder will automatically identify if jQuery is present at the website and if it is not, it will include it.
It injects your website of choice and you can then work with this tool to help you out with whichever layout/design task you find it useful for.
By default, it is set to work with 12 columns, 60 pixel wide columns with a 10 pixel spacer left and right of the column, making it a 20 pixel wide gutter (which actually is the ones this gridder renders).
You can see and read about the “960 standard” at http://960.gs.
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Van to drive out of Everton
SkySports The former Ajax and Inter Milan ace does not figure in David Moyes' first-team plans and he will be looking for a new club in the summer. Van der Meyde's agent Chiel Dekker has confirmed the player is set to leave Goodison Park and that he would like … Van der Meyde exit close |
David Semeria has been working on LM, another Ajax framework, for a number of years and has just announced it.
The first demo app is a highly customizable Twitter client, Twiggler, that runs in the browser.
Unfortunately nothing is public on the framework so we can’t see how it actually works. It looks kinda like Squeak or X from an interface perspective, and you can see an interesting designer view.
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Chiefs' Isaacs solid as a rock
Independent Online, South Africa - Nkareng Matshe It seemed one of the thoughtless transactions of the season when Dominic Isaacs joined Kaizer Chiefs in a swop deal that included Mabhuti Khenyeza heading in the other direction to Ajax Cape Town. As Khenyeza's career blossomed almost instantly at Ajax … Soweto Derby War Of Words Begins Soweto Derby fever mounts Expect a Soweto Derby fireworks |
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Ajax Cape Town And Platinum Stars Share The Spoils
Goal.com, Switzerland Platinum Stars earned a valuable point as they held Ajax Cape Town to a 1-1 draw at the Newlands Stadium on Wednesday night. Bradley Grobler scored for Stars and the Ajax goal was scored by Cole Alexander. The visiting side scored first in the first … Ajax CT v Platinum Stars Khenyeza can stretch his lead Ajax Cape Town Aiming For Top-Eight Finish |