San Jose Convention Center on on June 13-14, 2012 Hortonworks and Yahoo! are proud to host the 5th annual Hadoop Summit. The two-day event will feature many of the thought leaders from the Apache Hadoop community who will showcase successful Hadoop use cases, share development and administration tips and tricks and educate organizations about how [...]
JUTE is throwing its hat into the Javascript ‘do-it-all’ testing environments showcase showdown.
This screencast shows you how to create a simple YAP application using the example from the tutorial in the YAP Developers Guide.
A quick screencast and step-by-step tutorial on how to turn four XML datasets into an interesting mashup using YQL, YUI3, and Yahoo Maps. Source code included.
Ever wanted to search Yahoo, Bing and Google on the same page and preview the results? Here’s how to build an interface like that in half an hour with YQL and YUI.
Using the new YQL insert, update and delete functionality and the twitter example table it is dead easy to build your own Twitter clients in PHP. Here’s an example, MultiTweet!
We have a useful new developer toy for you. Yahoo! Placemaker is a web service that extracts location information from any text or URL. Here’s a quick tutorial on how to use it with PHP.
Fork us on Github. Learn how to get a copy of the YQL Open Table code, update it, and send it back new and improved! With YQL Open Tables you can share your own tables for web services you like.
Following questions at the last University Hack Day here’s a quick step-by-step tutorial how to build a hack using PHP, YQL and YUI to find photos on flickr and the web.
Wikipedia is a great resource for information but hard to parse. Using YQL however you can retrieve the Microformats in Wikipedia and re-use them. In this example we take a list of data with geo information and create a map from it.
In case you didn’t know, Yahoo Alerts is quite a handy service to turn any data feed into email alerts – including twitter replies. Here’s how to get notified by email, IM, or SMS when someone sends you a direct reply on twitter, without sharing any personal login information.
Each of the major social networking containers implements its own set of rules for how developers can interact with its applications. This usually gives developers additional concerns when it comes time to migrate their application to another container. Flash is an excellent medium for building components and decreasing the time spent adjusting your app.
Updated: Spanish and Portuguese translation of tutorials added. One of SearchMonkey’s niftier features is the ability to create custom data services that uses XSLT to extract structured data from a site’s markup. If you don’t own the site in question, this is a great way to extract meaningful information and use it to build a [...]
In the course of going to Sunnyvale, I was playing with BOSS (Build your Own Search Service) and it tickled me that using BOSS to search for images was actually easier than using the Flickr APIs themselves. It occurred to me that photo mosaics require a large number of photos, and this need is perfectly served by the BOSS image search.
This tutorial is aimed at helping new developers with a background in PHP get started with the Yahoo! Address Book APIs. I assume no prior knowledge of Yahoo technologies, but I do assume that you are familiar with network programming and understand how HTTP works at a basic level.
