APSquared

This is the 3rd post in a short series discussing how I built an API to grab contact list information from Yahoo!, AOL, GMail and Hotmail.  In our first post we reviewed the high level approach to scraping sites.  In our second post we went over how...

This post builds on my previous post, in which we discuss how to scrape webmail sites for contacts.  Yahoo! is by far the easiest of the sites to scrape (of the major sites).  After you've sniffed the URLs used for the login you just need to replace...

Many new websites, especially those that depend on social networks, are now offering ways to import contacts from various WebMail sites.  I'm not going to go into the ethics of asking a user for their user name and password to a webmail site and...

For the past few weeks I've been playing with Taste, a Java based framework for collaborative filtering (basically the recommendation feature found on sites like Amazon and Netflix).    Hopefully in the near feature this tool will be incorporated...

This is probably old news to everyone but just in case there are other people like me out there I figured I would make this post.  When I started building my site, I began hand-coding a layout of HTML tables in my JSP code.  That was definitely a...

We've just released the latest version of MLB Tracker, version 0.85.  Amongst some minor bug fixes the biggest change is that we now have MLB Tracker working for both BIS and BES connected blackberry's.  If you own a blackberry and enjoy baseball...

After fighting with eclipse a little I was able to get my eclipse 3.2 running with WST to deploy my web application to the root context with Tomcat.   The trick was that I had to manually edit the...