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Editor's note: Greetings from 360 Flex was originally posted on the Yahoo! Flash (R) Blog, which features news and articles on Yahoo! Flash components and libraries.
The Flash Platform team is hanging out at 360 Flex. On Sunday we had a Yahoo! API hands-on workshop showing how to use some of our most popular components such as ActionScript 3 Maps and the Flex AutoCompleteManager. A few lucky folks won a copy of the beginner’s Flex book Learning Flex 3 by yours truly. For those of you who missed the workshop, we’ll be posting a screencast of that session tomorrow, so stay tuned for that.
Along those lines, there’s something new this year for those of you who couldn’t attend (or who’d like to review your favorite sessions). The conference is posting videos of the sessions that you can preview and purchase, and over at Ted Patrick’s blog you can view the sessions for free, and in HD, using the Adobe Media Player.
We’re also hosting an API contest in conjunction with OpenFlux. The winner will receive a game console and other goodies, so show us what you got.
As for me, I just enjoyed a great session on Flex with Rails and RubyAMF by Tony Hillerson, and now I’m attending Josh Tynjala’s Polishing Components for the Masses session. I’d better stop writing and pay attention…I could learn something.
Alaric ColeIt was almost 20 years ago when, as a Computer Science student, I listened to Philippine President, Corazon Aquino, address a packed amphitheater at the University of California at Berkeley. In her speech, President Aquino called for Filipinos to return home to help rebuild the country. I didn't realize then that I would have the potential to heed that call a few years later when setting up the Philippine subsidiary of another global technology firm, and now with Yahoo!, while reiterating that same message to our Pinoy developer community.
Since joining Yahoo! a year ago, I often get questioned about the meaning of being a platform company. I have to reiterate that Yahoo! is not just a platform company, we are working on being an open platform company. This provides great potential for any Pinoy developer who now has an opportunity to leverage the Yahoo! infrastructure and technology and catalyze the Internet economy in the Philippines to help drive the country forward.
Yahoo! is the leading internet brand in the Philippines, and our platform provides the scale to make developers’ creations stand out. Although we have only just started our developer initiatives in the Philippines, I believe that our Hack Day at the University of the Philippines last year and our more recent Yahoo! Developer Network meet-up at TGI Fridays in Makati City last week – will help drive local innovation on the web.
It was good meeting the 80 Pinoy developers who braved the thunderstorm to attend our event. All their feedback will go a long way as we create new initiatives to support the develop community in the Philippines.
We know there are lots of talented Pinoys out there and we want the world to know that there's more to the Philippines than SMS, Boracay and the Love Bug virus. If you are a developer from the Philippines, I would like to invite you to submit your application form by 5p.m. 22 August for a life-changing trip to the Yahoo! HQ in Sunnyvale, California, and represent the Pinoy developer community. Click here for details and good luck!
Lastly, congratulations to Christine Amarra who won our lucky draw and walked away with an iPod.
Onward and upward in the Philippines!
Jojo A. Anonuevo
General Manager, Yahoo! Philippines
I spent the weekend at Barcamp in Leeds. Barcamps are getting quite common now, but it is really nice to see communities all around the UK joining in.
With almost 100 attendees, the technology community in the North of England is really buzzing. I was impressed by the range of people that came--everyone from UNIX hackers, web developers, startup founders, and designers.
Some of the strangest parts of this particular event: the very adorable ferret and the YMCA singalong. Still, there was plenty of geekery as well. One of the most interesting sessions for me, and something that would be useful all over the world, was a discussion on how to create and support local tech communities.
There were a few really good ideas on ways to encourage community. Events are an obvious thing, but starting them can be really hard. Two valuable resources: a list of geek-friendly venues and contacts among university professors (with access to lecture halls). Communities also need resources to get going; several people highlighted how visiting larger cities with more mature, established tech communities has been helpful in finding sponsors and identifying investors interested with an interest in engaging more locally.
YDN loves community. If you have a community that you are trying to bootstrap, maybe we can help. Drop me a mail to croucher at yahoo hyphen inc dot com I'd love to hear from you.
Tom Hughes-Croucher
Yahoo! Developer Network
If you've been hanging around the YDN recently, you've probably heard a thing or two about SearchMonkey.
And why not? SearchMonkey is pretty darn cool.
It lets you enhance the appearance of search results for your favorite sites. So the next time you need to look up, say, restaurants, a SearchMonkey app can distill all of the important information, like location, price range, and rating all into one place, right there in your search results.
A ton of people have been tinkering with SearchMonkey since it launched in May. One of the main reasons for this (aside from how cool it is...and never mind the $10,000 contest they held recently), is how easy it is to pick up and start developing with.
In this article, I'll go over XSLT and RDF--two of the fundamental concepts that power SearchMonkey. If you're looking to build your first app or you've built a few and want to get more out of it, you'll definitely want to read on.
Continue reading "RDF, XSLT, & the Monkey Make 3"
If you've been waiting 'till now to build a SearchMonkey application, you're in luck — we're pleased to announce that two intrepid SearchMonkey developers have independently created some great tutorials to help you get started.
First, Mark Birbeck of webBackplane has released a set of SearchMonkey tutorials that cover the DataRSS format, creating a DataRSS XSLT extractor, and creating a presentation application. Mark's specific focus is on government websites and expanding the ways these websites can share information with citizens. In fact, one of the reasons Mark is so interested in SearchMonkey is that SearchMonkey apps enable people to see what's possible when you embed RDFa in your pages. Mark also points out that custom data services are an excellent way to prototype these kinds of features before you go to the trouble of changing your markup.
If that weren't enough, Chris Lindsey of the Yahoo! Search Editorial team has posted a two-part SearchMonkey tutorial series on How to Build a Custom Data Service [PDF] and How to Build a SearchMonkey app (Infobar) [PDF]. These step-by-step tutorials are written with the newbie developer in mind, and cover various pitfalls that you might encounter when you're first learning how SearchMonkey works.
Finally, it's worth noting that a number of people have posted SearchMonkey-related presentations on slideshare.net, including Chris Heilmann, Neil Crosby, and David Berkowitz. If you've got SearchMonkey tutorials or interesting apps to share, feel free to let us know.
Evan Goer
Yahoo! SearchMonkey Team
Earlier today the Fire Eagle team at Yahoo! Brickhouse opened the Fire Eagle location platform to the public. What does that mean?
Until today access to the Fire Eagle project had been limited to developers with invitation codes. Now anyone can log in and use the exciting applications that have been built. If you are a developer, you can now log in to develop applications based on location without a special invite code, or you can try out some of the existing apps. The only thing you need to get started is a Yahoo! ID.
You can see the official launch announcement on the Yahoo! Next blog and read more about Location, location location on Yodel Anecdotal.
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