July 31, 2006

Search SDK 2.01 Released

Hot on the heels of last week's new Search SDK, version 2.01 is out. It contains an updated release of Jeffrey Friedl's Yahoo::Search Perl package. He discussed the bug on his site yesterday.

Thanks to Jeffrey for fixing this while in the middle of traveling!

Jeremy Zawodny

Posted at 3:17 PM

July 26, 2006

The New Multi-Lingual SDK

Managing the update of our Search Web Services SDK gave me the chance to appreciate some of the raw programming talent that exists both inside and outside of Yahoo!. Yahoo!'s own Premshree Pillai flexed his chops by quickly putting together new wrapper classes for both Ruby and Lua on short notice. Returning Yahoo! contributors Ryan Kennedy (Java) and Leif Hedstrom (Python) provided much-needed updates to their already popular contributions. Did I mention that our Flash developers rool? Yahoo!'s Caleb Haye has a particularly flashy Flash demo in the SDK while one of my fellow evangelists, Kent Brewster, offers a tasty bit of script tag hackery in his JavaScript sample.
Third party developers also came through with style. Martin Brown (C#/VB), Daniel Jones (C#/VB/Java), and Jeffrey Friedl (Perl), rounded out the offerings with strong contributions. Martin has updated his fine C# and VB.NET wrapper classes while Daniel Jones did the simpleSearch examples for C#/VB.NET and Java. Jeffrey has been maintaining his Perl wrapper in the CPAN archive for some time. All in all, an impressive bit of programming. Download it right here.

Posted at 10:44 PM

July 24, 2006

Come meet us at OSCON

The Yahoo! Developer Network team and a bunch of other folks from Yahoo! are going to be out in full force at OSCON in Portland this week.

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!

Posted at 8:45 PM