About the Cookbook
The Daylife Cookbook is a collection of recipes to help you bootstrap applications that use the Daylife platform (DayPI).
These recipes come from Daylifers and the cookbook community, with entries ranging from sample code to tutorials, half baked ideas, and spotlights of the latest deployments of the DayPI.
Feel free to share, steal, criticize, applaud, and feed back!
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Daylife is a perfect fit for our strategy of presenting the best and most tightly focused content, whether it is produced by us at USA TODAY or anywhere else on the Web. It helps us provide our readers with a full 360-degree view of a given topic, and adds depth and richness to niche areas important to our readers and advertisers.- Jeff Webber, SVP, USAToday.com
You guys have what seems like an amazingly powerful and easy to use API, we're pretty excited about playing with it and possibly integrating it with Hubdub. - Tom Griffith, Hubdub.com
It's amazing how simple this is to integrate into django. When a view is creating a page, it just calls a thin wrapper function that I put around the daypi module. - Bracket Boy
I found the Daylife API for PHP really easy to use, and coded something up quickly for my site, Brooklyn and Beyond - Brooklyn & Beyond
This tool makes it really easy to get a quick look or dive in deep thanks to our partner Daylife, who built a comprehensive service that yields up-to-the-minute results - The Washington Post
I was trying to make it work by using Google News RSS feeds but turned out impossible since they don't organize their data in the feeds. I now know its possible with the Daylife API - Akash Xavier
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April 4 2008 - 15:25
Green Topics on Telegraph.co.uk
By vineetWe have got more than a dozen requests for green topics. Daylife currently does not have pre-defined topics around "green concepts".
However, our partners at telegraph and treehugger have developed widgets and applications around green concepts by using our search APIs, thus, creating search based topics themselves.
Read below how to form these topics.
It is not the most optimal solution as these search based topics are not returned as Connections by any getRelatedTopics API call. But, if you have a list of topics, it sure lets you build pages for them.
For starters, here is a list of few green concepts that our partners have been creating pages for. They will help you to learn how to go about expressing your conceptual topic using a list of keywords.
- Global warming - ((climate AND change) OR "global warming" OR ("greenhouse effect"))
- Solar power - (solar OR photovoltaic OR (power AND sun*) OR (electric* AND sun*))
- Nuclear energy - (nuclear OR fission OR fusion OR reactor OR "fuel rod" OR "atomic energy" OR "fast breeder" OR (waste AND nuclear) OR "spent fuel" OR (uranium AND power))
- Wind power - ((wind AND power) OR "wind turbine" OR "windturbine" OR (wind AND farm) OR (wind AND electricity) OR (wave AND energy) )
- Hybrid cars - ((dual AND fuel AND car) OR prius OR (hybrid AND car) OR (electric AND car))
- Carbon capture - ("carbon capture" OR (carbon AND capture))
- Organic food - ((organic AND food) OR (organic AND farming) OR (sustainable AND farming)OR "pesticide free" OR pesticide-free)
- Recycling - (recycl* OR (waste AND management) OR landfill OR bins OR rubbish OR "waste disposal")
- Wave power - ((wave AND power) OR (wave AND energy) OR "wave turbine" OR "waveturbine" OR (wave AND converter) OR pelamis OR Pelamis OR (wave AND farm) OR (wave AND electricity) OR (tidal AND energy) OR (tidal AND power) OR (tidal AND electricity))
- Carbon trading - ((carbon AND trad*) OR "carbon economy")
- Conservation - (wildlife OR extinction OR endangered OR WWF )
- Renewables - ((renewabl* AND energy) OR (renewabl* AND power) OR (renewabl* AND electricity) OR "energy efficiency" OR (efficient AND energy) OR hydroelectric* OR dam)
- Flooding - (flood* OR tsunami OR (river AND burst))
- Drought - ((drought OR "water shortage" OR (water AND short* AND supply) OR famine OR starvation OR starving))
- Farming - (farm* OR agriculture OR "land management" OR farmer OR farm OR (crop AND prices) OR harvest)
- Forestry - (forest OR forestry OR rainforest OR timber OR hardwood OR softwood OR "forest fire")
- Greenpolitics - ((green AND politics) OR "green party" OR "green movement" OR "eco warrior" OR "ecowarrior" OR greenpeace OR "friends of the earth" OR "environmental pressure group" OR "environmental protest" OR "climate protest" )
- Eco architecture - ((environment* AND building) OR (ecolog* AND building) OR (environment* AND architect*) OR (ecolog* AND architect*) OR (environment* AND design) OR (ecolog* AND design) OR (sustainable AND architecture) OR (low AND impact AND hous*))
- Fish stocks - (overfish* OR (fish* AND stock*) OR (fish* AND catch*) OR (fish* AND hatch*) OR over-fish* OR (fish* AND threat*) OR (river AND pollution) OR (marine AND pollution) OR (marine AND environment))
- Air travel - ((air* AND pollution) OR (air* AND emissions) OR "aviation fuel" OR "budget airlines" OR (air* AND tax* AND green) OR (air* AND tax* AND environment*) OR (eco AND touris*))
- Biofuels - (biofuels OR biofuel OR (bio* AND fuel*)) ((sustainab* AND development) OR (sustainab* AND environment*) (eco AND friendly) (sustainab* AND touris*) OR (sustainab* AND design) OR (sustainab* AND farm*) OR (sustainab* AND agriculture) OR (sustainab* AND transport) OR (sustainab* AND travel) OR (sustainab* AND environment*) OR (eco AND touris*) OR (green AND touris*) OR (environment* AND touris*))
- Sustainability -
- Emissions - (emission* OR CO2 OR methane OR (greenhouse AND gas*) OR ("greenhouse effect") OR (Kyoto AND pollution) OR (Kyoto AND atmosphere))
- Eco Design - design AND (eco OR green OR sustainable)
- Water Conservation - "water conservation"