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Fiddler is an extremely useful tool for debugging any web traffic on Windows environments. While originally designed for use with Internet Explorer, it's very easy to use Fiddler along with any web browser on a Windows system. (more)

Christian Heilmann (Yahoo! Evangelist) has created GeoMaker - a great way to learn about Yahoo's Geo technologies like Placemaker. Here I put GeoMaker to the test with the lyrics from "I've Been Everywhere" by Johnny Cash. (more)

Still finding more reasons to play with and learn YQL, and following up from my experiment with random numbers, today I implemented YQL support for lipsum.com, a "Lorem Ipsum" text generator. (more)

I recently discovered a very cool random number generator site appropriately called Random.org. After poking around a bit at the various generators available on the site, I created a custom data table to access these random number services via Yahoo's YQL engine. (more)

Recently @tonyadam was asking about for a way to import Twitter search results into Excel via RSS or CSV. I couldn’t find a suitable method on my slightly out of date Excel 2003, but sent Tony a link explaining how Excel 2007 could get him closer to what he wants. Turns out he was on the Mac anyways, so we... (more)

Today is the last day the Yahoo! 360° service will be online; last chance to download or migrate old blog content over to the new Yahoo! Profiles service. (more)

Tonight the next major version of Yahoo! Messenger (9.0) was released. This release has been a long time in the making, with an extended beta period to help shake out as many bugs as possible. Check out the Messenger blog for the long list of feature improvements. One unique addition is the Pingbox, a Flash widget you can embed on... (more)

Today the new “Programming Q&A” site Stack Overflow launches. With the large tech crowd that follows founders Joel Spolsky (Joel on Software) and Jeff Atwood (Coding Horror), this new site should have no problem building an audience of its own. According to the About page: Stack Overflow is a programming Q & A site that’s free. Free to ask questions,... (more)