December 20, 2006

Comments are back

We had some problems accepting comments on the blog here, but everything is back up now, so keep those comments coming. Sorry about the outage.

Chad Dickerson

Posted at 2:49 PM | Comments (7)

December 19, 2006

Preview of the del.icio.us publisher api

The del.icio.us team gave me a preview of a new service for publishers that is really interesting. We'll post more details about it when they're available, but I did a short screencast (7 minutes) explaining some of the ways it can be used and why it matters. Enjoy.



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Matt McAlister

Posted at 8:30 PM | Comments (10)

December 18, 2006

Developer Notes are Open

Developer-contributed notes are a long-standing open-source tradition; see any page in the PHP or MySQL manuals, for example. As all programmers know, API documentation is fine, but when we're crunched for time (always) what we really need is a good example or two.

Enter Developer Notes. Currently up and running on most of the individual API calls under Answers, Search, and Utilities, Developer Notes are ready to serve. Before diving in, please read the full story on the Developer Notes page, just off the main Community area. (The short version: yes, you'll need to sign in to contribute notes; submitted notes will be moderated for quality and relevance; and requests for technical support will be gently redirected to their proper place, the individual Yahoo! group for the API family in question.)

Kent Brewster, Yahoo! Developer Network

Posted at 9:41 AM | Comments (1)

December 13, 2006

Check Out Our WADL

Sure, it's technically possible to use WSDL to describe a REST style web service, but is anybody using WSDL to do it? Marc Hadley's WADL (pronounced "waddle"), Web Application Description Language, is a convenient and simple alternative and we've got some tools to get you started using it.

Our own Mark Nottingham offers a sweet XSLT style sheet to transform WADL files into HTML documentation pages here. If you've got some Java chops, you can build Marc Hadley's wadl2java tool which takes WADL files and parses them into Java stubs for your applications. The WADL home page has the code as well as supporting documentation and even a Yahoo! usage example.

For developers that want to get started quickly with some new code, Yahoo! engineer Venkata Ramamoorthy created a small build package for our Web Search Service which you can download directly here. Have fun waddling...

Posted at 10:30 AM | Comments (1)

December 12, 2006

Reminder: Action required - Flash applications need to use yahooapis.com

If your Flash application makes requests to any service endpoint hosted on yahoo.com, you must change it to the appropriate yahooapis.com endpoint. Flash support on yahoo.com will end within the next 48 hours!

Non-Flash applications will not be affected by this change. More details can be found in the original announcement.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

Dan Theurer

Posted at 3:02 PM | Comments (0)