On the first day (Tuesday), Jeremy Zawodny and I are both participating in the Executive Briefing. Jeremy blogged today about his panel (The Ghost in the Machine: The Impact of Open Source on Web 2.0), which is about the use of open source at Yahoo! and how we give back to the community. I will be in the "hot seat" with Tim discussing (as Tim wrote) "the first shots that have already been fired in the open data wars" (here's the full session description). I'm looking forward to it.

Here is a list of the sessions in which my Yahoo! colleagues will be presenting:

• Premshree Pillai, Handling Cross-domain XMLHttpRequests, Wednesday, July 26, 10:45am - 11:30am
• Andrei Zmievski, PHP 6 & Unicode: The Tower of Babel, Next Generation, Wednesday, July 26, 4:30pm - 5:15pm
• Rasmus Lerdorf, PHP and Web 2.0, Thursday, July 27, 10:45am - 11:30am
• Michael Radwin, Hacking Apache HTTP Server at Yahoo!, Thursday, July 27, 1:45pm - 2:30pm
• Jeremy Johnstone, Writing Your Own PHP Extensions: How & Why from A-Z, Friday, July 28, 10:45am - 11:30am

At various time before, during, and after the sessions, Dan Theurer, Jason Levitt, Andrei Zmievski, Jeremy Zawodny, Rasmus Lerdorf and I will be hanging out at the Yahoo! Developer Network booth, so please do stop by and say hello and grab some goodies.

See you in Portland!

Developers of all skill levels can get started fast with the SDK creating applications ranging from simple HTML to ActiveX controls providing greater functionality and interactivity. You can build projects for yourself, or take advantage of the new section of Yahoo! Gallery to feature your Plug-Ins.

With the Yahoo! Plug-Ins Gallery, every Yahoo! Messenger user can check out your application - how cool is that? We can't see what you come up with and how much users love it.

Whether on your business website, blog or personal site, you no longer have to ask for permission. Feel free to:

• Build Mashups and use our Maps for personal or business use as long as the applications are free of charge and under the rate limit.
• Link to Yahoo! Maps or Driving Directions to your heart’s content.
• Include advertising on the same page or site where you display Yahoo! Maps.

There are still some Usage Policy so make sure to have a look at those.
Finally, please make sure to register your application because we love to see all the exciting stuff you’re doing with our APIs. Should you ever need an exception for any reason the first step is to register your app with us.

Vince Maniago & The Yahoo! Maps Team

• New YUI controls for desktop-like user interface elements including menus, modules, panels, dialogs and tooltips.
• A new hugely-configurable AutoComplete control.
• A passel of CSS libraries to help with cross-browser normalization, layout and design.
• Over a dozen new patterns in the Design Pattern Library, including transitions and invitations.

In addition, the library download itself has moved to Sourceforge. This lets Yahoo! UI library development team post patches and updates more frequently.

See more details on the Yahoo! UI Library and Yahoo! Design Patterns pages or over on the Yahoo! User Interface Blog.

- Your cheery YDN announcementeer]]> http://developer.yahoo.net/blog/archives/2006/05/more_sweetness.html/feed 0 http://developer.yahoo.net/blog/archives/2006/02/announcing_rele.html http://developer.yahoo.net/blog/archives/2006/02/announcing_rele.html#comments Wed, 22 Feb 2006 22:21:30 +0000 Yahoo! Web Services blog http://developer.yahoo.net/blog/archives/2006/02/announcing_rele.html With the release of the Yahoo! Widgets Developer SDK for Windows, developers can download one handy bundle with all of the tools they need to get started building great Widgets. This kit includes a streamlined version of the Widget Engine 3.0 installer plus additional documentation, a handy creation script and a cool new tutorial.

In the future this SDK will be your one-stop shop for future software updates and new developer resources to help you keep up to date with the latest advances in Widget technology. Pull it down today and take your Widget making to the next level, and keep an eye on the Widgets Workshop for new releases and updates.

Today we're launching our new PHP Developer Center and announcing that many of our web services now return serialized PHP. PHP developers will now be able to consume these web services even more easily than before.

Yahoo!'s Search, Maps, and Travel REST web services now return serialized PHP by simply adding the output=php parameter to any web services request.

For example, suppose you want to search for PHP-related podcasts and return the first five results using our Podcast Search service:

http://api.search.yahoo.com/AudioSearchService/ V1/podcastSearchappid=YahooDemo&query=PHP& results=5&output=php

The request above returns the results as serialized PHP. A simple PHP script can trivially parse the request using PHP's unserialize function which is built-in to all PHP4 and PHP5 implementations:

<?php
$request='http://api.search.yahoo.com/ AudioSearchService/V1/podcastSearch?appid=YahooDemo& query=PHP&results=5&output=php';
$result = file_get_contents($request);
$phparray = unserialize($result);

echo '<pre>';
print_r($phparray);
echo '</pre>';
?>

Or, perhaps you'd like to see a list of public trips to Australia using Yahoo!'s Travel web service:

<?php
$request='http://api.travel.yahoo.com/TripService/ V1/tripSearch?appid=YahooDemo& query=australia&results=10&output=php';
$result = file_get_contents($request);
$phparray = unserialize($result);
echo '<pre>';
print_r($phparray);
echo '</pre>';
?>

With this release, we're continuing to push out the standards for developer-friendliness with our web services offerings. For more information, and a complete list of Yahoo! developer APIs, check out the Yahoo! Developer Network web site.

Using JavaScript and XML you can make Widgets that sit on users' desktops to provide fun and productivity during the day. What can you dream up using the new Yahoo! Widgets technology? Get the knowledge and tools to build 'em at the Widget Workshop and show off your creations at Widget Gallery.

To aim your search at a particular regional engine, simply pass in a region parameter (e.g. region=ca) to the Web Search API, and it will use the appropriate regional database.

In addition, Yahoo! Japan has made a Web Search API available in Japanese. Note that the Japanese Search Web Services are provided and supported separately from our other international web services; visit the Yahoo! Japan Developer Network for more information.

Finally, we've just launched Yahoo! Switzerland Search, and we'll have Swiss search functionality available through the web service in a couple of weeks. We'll update you then.
Until then, have fun!

Toby Elliott
Yahoo! Search Web Services