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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Testimonials
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
Cooking With Daylife
Daylife makes its technology platform available to developers, editors, publishers, and readers who want to dig their hands into the news and make new stuff.
The Daylife Cookbook is a set of recipes you can use to jumpstart your news fiddling. It's a motley collection of ideas, samples, step-by-steps, case studies, and so forth, that you should feel free to borrow or steal from as you build your own applications on top of the DayPI.
We've broken the cookbook up into several sections, listed below.
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Showcase profiles live examples of how the DayPI is being used in the field |
Sample Code and Tutorials walk you through how to build a complete implementation, sometimes with code sample and sometimes without. |
Lazyweb Ideas are notions and sketches that illustrate possible applications of the DayPI, that you could build if you wanted, or that we might build if we weren't so lazy. |
The recipes contained in the cookbook are updated all the time, with new additions and tweaks to old recipes in response to user comments coming every week. You can keep up with the new additions to the cookbook by watching our front page or by subscribing to our sitewide RSS.
You can also navigate the cookbook by tag (see the tag cloud to the left and note the tags at the base of each recipe).
Dig in!