Yahoo Pipes adds Serialized PHP support
p. My friend John Herren dropped me an IM yesterday pointing me to his latest blog post,”Yahoo Pipes adds support for serialized PHP”:http://jhherren.wordpress.com/2008/04/03/yahoo-pipes-adds-support-for-serialized-php/. Not only did “Yahoo’s Pipes”:http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/ Team add support for serialized PHP but they did so within 3 days of him requesting the feature!
bq. Two points to be made: first, I’m damn impressed that one of the largest sites on the ‘net would roll a feature request from an outside developer in less than three days. Second, developers should never resist the urge to ask for help from an API provider. If a company is taking the time to support an API, chances are very good that they will listen to developers and react. I can personally say I’ve gotten immediate results from Technorati, Dapper, and now Yahoo!. So blow off the idea that a big website would never listen to little ol’ developer you.
p. by the way, if you’ve not played with “Yahoo! Pipes”:http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/ yet, it’s a seriously cool tool. It’s now a little bit cooler thanks to John and the Yahoo! Pipes team.
About Cal Evans
Many moons ago, at the tender age of 14, Cal touched his first computer. (We're using the term "computer" loosely here, it was a TRS-80 Model 1) Since then his life has never been the same. He graduated from TRS-80s to Commodores and eventually to IBM PC's.
For the past 10 years Cal has worked with PHP and MySQL on Linux OSX, and when necessary, Windows. He has built on a variety of projects ranging in size from simple web pages to multi-million dollar web applications. When not banging his head on his monitor, attempting a blood sacrifice to get a particular piece of code working, he enjoys building and managing development teams using his widely imitated but never patented management style of "management by wandering around".
Cal is currently based in Nashville, TN and is gainfully unemployed as the Chief Marketing Officer of Blue Parabola, LLC.
Cal is happily married to wife 1.28, the lovely and talented Kathy. Together they have 2 kids who were both bright enough not to pursue a career in IT.
Cal blogs at http://blog.calevans.com and is the founder and host of Day Camp 4 Developers
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April 5, 2008 at 1:08 am
It’s odd they would add something so specific like serialized PHP.
Why not just stick with JSON then?
Seems like people are starting to use Ruby, Python, etc. just as much as PHP now. I find it odd they would add such a specific method of data exchange.
(Note: I am a fan of PHP and only PHP, I just find this confusing! Especially since PHP’s got native JSON support already)