Irrational Exuberance

Entries tagged with BOSS

1. Title: Releasing Source for Mahou
   Tags: BOSS Cappuccino Google App Engine

   Mahou is a simple but somewhat interesting web search I made using Cappuccino, Yahoo! BOSS Mashup Framework, and Google App Engine. I'm releasing the code for free use, and hope that it can be helpful for anyone interested in Cappuccino or in the Yahoo! BOSS Mashup Framework.

2. Title: Extending Mahou; Gotchas and Snippets
   Tags: BOSS Cappuccino Google App Engine Mahou

   A few thoughts and code snippets from further extending Mahou. Written in a rambling style with little purpose or direction. You've been warned.

3. Title: Writing Mahou; a Cappuccino Image Search
   Tags: BOSS Cappuccino Google App Engine Mahou

   I spent much of the day writing Mahou, which is the Japanese word for magic, and is now also a Yahoo! Boss Search Mashup Framework and Cappuccino (and Google App Engine, while we're at it) powered image search engine. It's a pretty interesting application, and even the least technical readers might enjoy playing around with it a bit.

4. Title: BossArray for list-like Yahoo search results
   Tags: BOSS python

   I recently put together BossArray, which is a simple wrapper around the Yahoo BOSS search results (relying on the Yahoo BOSS Mashup Framework for the heavy lifting). It provides a dirt simple interface mimicking a normal Python list for most interaction.

5. Title: Stripping Reddit From HackerNews With BOSS Mashup
   Tags: BOSS python

   This tutorial looks at using the Yahoo BOSS Mashup Framework (a simple Python library) to retrieve the RSS feeds for HackerNews and Reddit Programming and strip the union of those results from HackerNews, returning HackerNews to an earlier era.

6. Title: Polishing Up Our Django & BOSS Search Service
   Tags: BOSS django
   Series: Django & Yahoo BOSS Mashup

   This is a continuation to the first entry on using Django and Yahoo's BOSS Mashup Framework, and takes our search service from something very small and ugly to something that is fairly usable.

7. Title: Search Recipes for Yahoo's BOSS in Python
   Tags: BOSS python

   This entry is a bit of a cookbook for using Yahoo's Python library for accessing the BOSS Mashup Framework. It has full examples for searching the web, images, news , for paginating results, and for limiting searches to specific domains.

8. Title: Yahoo's Build your Own Search Service in Django
   Tags: BOSS django
   Series: Django & Yahoo BOSS Mashup

   This is a fairly simple look at how to use Yahoo's BOSS Mashup Framework with Django. In the tutorial we create a simple news search.