p. My friend John Herren dropped me an IM yesterday pointing me to his latest blog post. Not only did Yahoo’s Pipes Team add support for serialized PHP but they did so within 3 days of him requesting the feature!

So, you want to create your own mashup? Great! Mashups — web applications that grab information from different external sources and mix it together in new and exciting ways — are fun to build and popular with users.

Today, we are going to talk to the PECL princess herself, Sara Golemon. Sara is one of the core contributors to PHP and when she’s not coding for PHP, speaking at conferences or writing books she fills her time working at Yahoo. I had the privilege of sitting down with Sara at php|works earlier this year in Atlanta GA and talk with her about her background, why she likes PHP and anything else that came to mind.

p. I’ll have to admit that when I sat down to interview Jeremy Johnstone at OSCON I didn’t know who he was or anything about him. Most of the other interviews I at least knew who they were and what they had done with/for PHP. I had nothing on Jeremy, all I knew was that he was speaking at OSCON and he worked at Yahoo. As it turns out, it was a very interesting interview. Not for the normal reasons though. If you want more, you’ll have to come inside and read the interview.

p. Here is more catch-up from announcements preceding this past weekend’s “Hack Day” at Yahoo. Flickr now supports JSON or serialized PHP responses. This one is a short one but interesting to anyone doing PHP Mashups.

p. On Sept 28, 2006, Upcoming.org released it’s new PHP 5 wrapper class. They also announce they are “Looking for That Special Someone”. Click on inside and I’ll tell you everything I know about it plus a few things I’ll make up.

p. Here’s the next installment the OSCON Interviews series. This time we talk with Andrei Zmievski of Yahoo. We talk about working at Yahoo, Unicode, PHP 6 and other interesting topics. Grab a cup of coffee and come on in as we sit down for “30 Minutes with Andrei Zmievski”.