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Day's blog - Yahoo! Pipes Tutorial - An example using the Fetch Page module to make a web scraper

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Pipes Tutorial - An example using the Fetch Page module to make a web scraper. A new Fetch Page module which dramatically increases the number of useful things that Pipes can do. With this new pipe input module we're no longer restricted to working with well-organised data sets in supported formats such as CSV, RSS, Atom, XML, JSON, iCal or KML. Now we can grab any HTML page we like and use the power of the Regex module to slice and dice the raw text into shape. Pipes into a fully fledged web scraping.

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Day's blog - Pipe to filter the Google Code Issue Updates feed

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Pipe to filter the Google Code Issue Updates feed. Google Code provides various feeds. For every project they host. The "Issue Updates" feed contains entries for all the issues on the project. What if you're only interested in one issue. Filter the feed with Yahoo! Baked into an official release of flot. And will be tracking progress with this feed. Never published. Used to show your gravatar. If you have one. You can use Markdown syntax. HTML will be removed. Spam will be burned.

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Thieves - A Solitaire Card Game

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Thieves: A Solitaire Card Game. Thieves is a classic card game for solo play. Includes a scoring system and high score table that remembers your best plays. Click thumbnails for full size images. Download and run to see it in action. For Windows: thieves setup.exe. For Mac, Linux, DOS etc: thieves.tar.gz. For Windows, simply run the installer and then start the game from your start menu. For other systems (Mac, Linux or even DOS), unpack the tar ball to an empty directory of your choosing then run.

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Day's blog - CSS Resets and Grids

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CSS Resets and Grids. As promised in my last post. Introducing the website redesign, I'd like to expand on the various projects that I've used to put this together. Today I'll start with the CSS framework. Firstly, I use Eric Meyer's CSS Reset. And not making sure that the bottom margin of that level three header in your sidebar is the same height in IE as it is in Firefox. Which is well worth the read if you're not familiar with CSS resets. Hellip; I could attempt to make use of a tool like Sass. Are hi...

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Sliding Tiles Screensaver

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Sliding Tile Puzzle: A Screensaver. This screensaver resembles a sliding puzzle. And works by splitting your screen into several tiles and moving them about at random to mix them up. Click thumbnails for full size images. Download and run to see the tiles moving. After downloading, use Windows Explorer to right-click on the file and choose the "Install" option. You should then be able to configure the screen saver from the Display Properties entry in the Windows Control Panel.

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Day's blog - Now faster than 84% of sites

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Now faster than 84% of sites. It's official: according to Google Webmaster Tools. This site is now “ faster than 84% of sites. Can you tell when I made the switch. From using Drupal to Django? Graph for the same period:. Pingdom also show the same marked improvement around the end of August. In the pylibmc library that causes mod wsgi to hang). Time will tell how the caching affects things, but in the meantime, here's a “live” report from Pingdom for the last month:. If you have one.

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QBasic games for DOS, Windows, MAC and Linux

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A solitaire card game. This is Day Barr's personal website. A playground and a place for very occasional blog posts.

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Stockem Game - A Sokoban Clone

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Stockem: A Sokoban Clone. Stockem is a clone of the classic Sokoban game. With its own unique levels. A puzzle game with a simple premise, Stockem starts easy but soon gets fiendishly difficult. The aim is to fill all of the “parking spaces” with “marbles” by simply pushing them around a maze-like board. Click thumbnails for full size images. Download and run to see it in action. For Windows: stockem setup.exe. For Mac, Linux, DOS etc: stockem.tar.gz. For Mac and Linux, you will need to use DOSBox. This ...

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Day's blog - Disable suspend while using vpn on Ubuntu

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Disable suspend while using vpn on Ubuntu. My PC is set up to save power quite aggressively, by suspending after only 5 minutes of inactivity. This is fine most of the time, when the PC is periodically used by the family to quickly read email or check into facebook. But this causes me problems when working from home. To fix this without me having to remember to do anything special, we can automatically prevent the suspend (or hibernation) of the PC when the. As root, create a new file called.

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Day's blog - Browser support for built-in Ajax Libraries

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Browser support for built-in Ajax Libraries. The Ajax Libraries API in May, Dion Almaer noted. That it might be possible for browsers to further improve performance of applications using this API:. If we see good usage, we can work with browser vendors to automatically ship these libraries. Then, if they see the URLs that we use, they could auto load the libraries, even special JIT'd ones, from their local system. Thus, no network hit at all! And filed a feature request. At the Google Chrome support site.