Synopses & Reviews
With the Yahoo Query Language (YQL), you can easily query web services, filter the results, and join data from several services into your application. This book demonstrates every aspect of YQL usage, from setting up queries to adding new services. You'll learn how to access information through the YQL Console, a clear and consistent interface that works across many web services. It's an ideal guide for programmers seeking data either for mashups or for populating their site.
- Learn how to gain easier access to web services information from a wide variety of applications
- Reduce maintenance costs substantially by building applications with YQL
- Integrate YQL with a variety of projects at different scales
- Use several specialized query tools, including one for geolocation
About the Author
Guilherme (a.k.a. "GC") is Sr. Engineering Manager at Yahoo! Inc. and has worked in web development since 1999. He is specialist in high-scalable and high-performing web applications development using Java, Python, JavaScript among a broad variety of languages and technologies. Practitioner of agile software development, he has worked with many methodologies like eXtreme Programming (XP) Scrum and Lean. Now he is helping to implement these practices at Yahoo! developing world-class web applications.
Pedro is a Sr. Product Manager at Yahoo! Inc. and has worked in web development since 1997. He's a journalist that became web developer, with a passion for open data and civic hacking. His "horizontal" mindset led him to a wide range of experiences, as a writer and editor, print and web designer, PHP and Python developer and since 2008 as the Product Owner of an agile team, responsible for strategic and business decisions. He has spoken in conferences about YQL, open data and hacking to diverse audiences, telling journalists about the value of writing code, and telling developers about the journalistic importance their hacks can have.