Holovaty.comHolovaty.com is a weblog discussing technical aspects of news Web sites.New EveryBlock cities launched- (Found July 2, 2008 ) We've just added two cities to EveryBlock: Charlotte and Philadelphia! I've written more over at the EveryBlock blog.http://www.holovaty.com/blog/archive/2008/06/30/1926 Request: Headless HTML rendering engine- (Found July 2, 2008 ) Warning: Seriously geeky request ahead! I'm looking for a way to render arbitrary Web pages -- including CSS and JavaScript -- and access the resulting DOM tree programatically, i.e., in an automatedheadless fashion. I want to be able to ask the following questions of the resulting DOM tree: For a given element, what font family, size, and color is the text How tall and wide (in pixels) is a given <div>, <table>, etc. What are the xy coordinates of a given element (from the...http://www.holovaty.com/blog/archive/2008/05/02/0136 Check out my Radiohead remix- (Found July 2, 2008 ) Radiohead is holding a "contest" called Radiohead Remix, in which they're inviting fans to remix the song called "Nude" from their latest album. They've released the raw tracks -- separate, isolated audio clips of vocals, guitar, percussion, etc. -- and are encouraging people to remix the tracks to create something different, then upload it to radioheadremix.com. I put "contest" in quotes because there's no prize other than a guarantee that the band members will listen to your remix. But that's.http://www.holovaty.com/blog/archive/2008/04/04/0324 EveryBlock hiring a Python screen-scraping expert- (Found July 2, 2008 ) Attention Python screen-scraping experts! We're looking to hire another full-time developer at EveryBlock. Our site, which just launched a few weeks ago, compiles a wealth of granular geographic data and publishes it on a block-by-block basis. We offer a distinct Web page (plus an RSS feed and e-mail alerts) for every city block in Chicago, New York and San Francisco. We're expanding to more cities and more data sources. And we have a ton of fun features and projects up our sleeves. This...http://www.holovaty.com/blog/archive/2008/02/18/1928 A couple of EveryBlock interviews- (Found July 2, 2008 ) Back in 2006, I had a very enjoyable interview with Robert Niles at Online Journalism Review. Now, Robert and I have gotten back together for another e-mail conversation about my latest project, EveryBlock: check it out. And there's more! Earlier today, Rex Sorgatz published an interview with me about EveryBlock, with more of a technology focus. Thanks to both Robert and Rex for the great questions.http://www.holovaty.com/blog/archive/2008/02/15/0032 |