APIs
10 Apr 2009
Today I had to use a private API while spiking a feature for an iPhone app I'm working on and I ran into a couple of gotchas along the way. There doesn't seem to be a simple step-by-step guide for using private iPhone APIs in XCode, so here's goes:
Tom -- who, incidentally, also happens to be a speaker at the <head> web conference and the man behind the <head> San Francisco hub at Yahoo!'s Sunnyvale campus -- just alerted me that the lovely folks over at Yahoo! Pipes have posted a blog entry detailing How to find your Pipe ID after customizing your Pipes URL.
I had blogged about this just a few days ago when I ran into the issue.
I just noticed that the Yahoo! GeoPlanet API made an API change to its JSON API that breaks existing apps. (I noticed because it broke the sign-up process for the new Singularity teaser site.)
Googling around, I couldn't find any announcements from Yahoo! about this. I don't know if there's a notification feed somewhere that I'm missing -- if so, I'd appreciate it if someone could point me in the right direction. Otherwise, in case any other developres are using the Yahoo! GeoPlanet JSON API and are affected by this, here's a summary of the change from the post I just made on the yws-geo forum:
The 19 20 22 entries that we received for the SWX Contest have now been published on the SWX Contest page for public viewing.
Due to the manageable number of entries, we're going to forego the first round of public voting (although you are welcome to leave comments on the entries) and allow our outstanding panel of judges to pick the winners from the Web, API, and Mobile categories in a single round of voting.