http://marti.textdriven.com/yodel/

I tried it and it works well, but somehow doing IM in Emacs seems clunky. This may seem blasphemous to some, but perhaps some things are best not done in Emacs.

OK, there are some things I won’t miss. Like trying to park my car in the morning and gcc 2.95. But then there are a lot of other things and people that I will miss.

Where am I going? After a brief vacation (this weekend!), I will start at VMware on Monday. You’ll be hearing about that shortly…

Here’s an example of using it:

marc@tbird:~/projects/scheme$ mzscheme
Welcome to MzScheme version 352, Copyright (c) 2004-2006 PLT Scheme Inc.
> (load "yahoo-web-search.scm")
> (for-each-result
        (lambda(x)
                (let ((result (result->struct x)))
                        (printf "~s~n" (result-url result))))
        "query=coroutines")
"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coroutine"
"http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/03/09/CoroutinesinNET/default.aspx"
"http://www.sidhe.org/~dan/blog/archives/000178.html"
"http://lua-users.org/wiki/CoroutinesTutorial"
"http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/300019"
"http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/coroutines.html"
"http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0342/"
"http://www.softpanorama.org/Scripting/pipes.shtml"
"http://c2.com/cgi-bin/wiki?CoRoutine"
"http://cs.hubfs.net/forums/ShowThread.aspx?PostID=676"
(# # # # # # # # # #)

I’m no Scheme expert so this code is probably not particularly smart or readable, but maybe it will inspire somebody…

If you’re interested, please email your resume to msabramo {at} yahoo(.)com

Software Engineer – Flex Force

Description

The Flex Force team at Yahoo is dedicated to providing highly skilled engineers to a variety of projects. We act as an internal “consulting” team, providing short to medium term resourcing to dedicated product engineering teams that have critical or time sensitive problems. In the past we’ve contributed to highly visible products such as Yahoo! Mail and anti-spam, Yahoo! Messenger, Yahoo! Photos, Overture, Yahoo! Search and others.The ideal candidate is a technically strong engineer who likes a dynamic environment and assignments that change every 3-8 months. As a member of the team you will get wide exposure to a variety of Yahoo’s products. Due to the rapidly changing team environment, strong communications and teamwork skills are a must.

Skills/Qualifications

Required:

• MS/BS in Computer Science (or equivalent experience).
• 5-7+ years industry experience building scalable systems in C/C++ on a Unix platform
• A proven track-record of technical leadership, including responsibility for design or architecture
• Good development-process skills: structured design documentation, build processes, coding styles, testing frameworks, etc.
• Demonstrated ability to identify and take opportunities for code re-use
• Interest and demonstrated ability to work in complex team environments, with evolving team membership

Preferred:

• Experience working in a consulting firm or relevant experience within an internal staffing pool
• Experience w/ building highly available clustered applications
• Experience w/ relational databases, particularly Oracle and MySQL
• Experience w/ web-scripting languages including Perl or PHP
• Experience with agile methods, such as test-driven development

 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/05/if-you-dont-use-delicious-you-will-now/

The above link has 1411 diggs and counting – pretty cool.

 Forbes.com: Yahoo! Digs Panama

• cl-delicious: for accessing the del.icio.us API
• cl-yahoo: for accessing the Yahoo! Search API
• Clickr – for accessing the Flickr API

In the case of cl-delicious, it was a little harder to install (into SBCL on my Ubuntu Edgy system), as the author’s site has a bzipped file instead of the gzipped file that ASDF-Install expects.

~/.sbcl/site$ wget http://jarrodkoehler.com/cl-delicious/cl-delicious-0.1.tar.bz2
~/.sbcl/site$ tar -xjf cl-delicious-0.1.tar.bz2
~/.sbcl/site$ cd ../systems
~/.sbcl/systems$ ln -s ~/.sbcl/site/cl-delicious/cl-delicious.asd .

Now, at this point, I was running the current SBCL version from the Ubuntu Edgy repository and this version of SBCL seems to have a slight problem with the cl-delicious.asd file so I had to do:

~/.sbcl/systems$ vim cl-delicious.asd .     # Remove the line with LICENSE

It seems that upgrading to the release version of SBCL from the SBCL web site (1.0.2 as of this writing) also solves the problem and is perhaps a preferable solution.

and then

~/.sbcl/systems$ sbcl

or if you prefer, fire up Emacs and SLIME.

and then

CL-USER> (asdf:operate 'asdf:load-op 'cl-delicious)
...(a bazillion messages about loading and registering)...

and now you’re ready to do stuff, as shown in the cl-delicious page:

CL-USER> (in-package :cl-delicious)
#<PACKAGE "CL-DELICIOUS">
CL-USER> (defparameter *du*
           (make-instance 'delicious-user
                          :username "user"
                          :password "password"))
*DU*
CL-DELICIOUS> (recent-posts *du* :count "2")
(#S(POST
    :HREF "http://www.cs.indiana.edu/dfried_celebration.html"
     ESCRIPTION "Daniel P Friedman: A Celebration"
    :EXTENDED NIL
    :HASH "9821f03f10279cad407aa8b2e5c2bef1"
    :OTHERS NIL
    :TAG "programming video"
    :TIME "2007-02-22T23:06:22Z")
 #S(POST
    :HREF "http://www.math.gatech.edu/~cain/textbooks/onlinebooks.html"
     ESCRIPTION "Online texts"
    :EXTENDED NIL
    :HASH "79b0c74c3d2941dbd57ac922b471e781"
    :OTHERS NIL
    :TAG "math books"
    :TIME "2007-02-22T20:50:26Z"))

It was easier to install cl-yahoo.

CL-USER> (asdf-install:install 'cl-yahoo)

However, I ran into problems getting Web search to work:

CL-USER> (asdf:oos 'asdf:load-op :cl-yahoo)
NIL
CL-USER> (use-package :cl-yahoo)
T
CL-USER> (ysearch :web :query "lisp" :type 'any :results 2)

XML parser encountered eof before end of entity.
   [Condition of type S-XML:XML-PARSER-ERROR]                                                                                  

Restarts:
 0: [ABORT] Return to SLIME's top level.
 1: [TERMINATE-THREAD] Terminate this thread (#)                                               

Backtrace:
  0: (S-XML::RESOLVE-ENTITY
      #<SB-SYS:FD-STREAM for "a constant string" {B477469}> >
      "invalid value: uri - http://api.search.yahoo.com/WebSearchService/V1/webSearch?"
      #<HASH-TABLE :TEST EQUAL :COUNT 6 {B47C031}>
      "appid=cl-yahoo&query=lisp&type=any&results=2&start=3&adult_ok=1</Message>^M
     ^M
     <!-- ws02.search.scd.yahoo.com uncompressed Sat Mar  3 16:16:03 PST 2007 -->                                         >
     ")
  1: (S-XML::PARSE-TEXT
      #<SB-SYS:FD-STREAM for "a constant string" {B477469}>
...

I guess I’ll email the author about that.

And a few choice quotes:

“Del.icio.us changed my life. Download the extension right away, get organized and share! Feel the difference.”
http://getfirefox.biz/delicious-changed-my-life.html

“I am slowly becoming a more frequent user of del.icio.us. … the recent update they rolled out appears to be borderline brilliant”
http://www.pointy-stick.com/blog/2007/02/23/upgraded-delicious-firefox-extension/

“New and improved del.icio.us extension for Firefox”
http://www.fortysomething.ca/mt/etc/archives/006372.php

“Your del.icio.us bookmarks and tags are now accessible from the Firefox bookmarks toolbar as well as the menu bar.”
http://labnol.blogspot.com/2007/02/delicious-bookmarks-firefox-extension.html

“Alright, it’s now official: I decided to switch from Yahoo! MyWeb to Del.icio.us. This new Firefox extension is just so sweet.”
http://insideyahoo.net/2007/02/24/switching-to-delicious/

This Firefox extension adds a "Yahoo! Search" item in Firefox's View | Sidebar
menu (Alt+Y is the shortcut key) that opens a sidebar tailored for Web searching with Yahoo! Search.

More info at the Yahoo Search Sidebar page

This Yahoo! Widget Engine widget allows convenient viewing of the contents of your Yahoo! Briefcase with a Windows Explorer/OS X Finder like interface as well as upload and download capabilities.