My friend John Herren dropped me an IM yesterday pointing me to his latest blog post,Yahoo Pipes adds support for serialized PHP. Not only did Yahoo’s Pipes Team add support for serialized PHP but they did so within 3 days of him requesting the feature!
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.
by the way, if you’ve not played with Yahoo! Pipes yet, it’s a seriously cool tool. It’s now a little bit cooler thanks to John and the Yahoo! Pipes team.
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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)