YAHOO! HACKS: Tips & Tools for Living on the Web Frontier

reviewed by Robert Pritchett

Author: Paul Bausch; http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/catalog/view/au/1200   Booksite: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/yahoohks/index.html Published: October 2005. Pages: 489 $25 USD,  $35 CND, £17.50 GBP, 22€ EUR ISBN: 0596009453 Requirements: A desire to know YAHOO! Strengths: Talks all about YAHOO! Weaknesses: None found.

YAHOO! HACKS: Tips & Tools for Living on the Web Frontier by Paul Bausch is intended for those who have a real desire to tweak the heck out of YAHOO!

If you are into shortcutting keys, customizing YAHOO! Mail, creating apps using web services, knowing how to properly un-register an account from YAHOO!, do mash-ups and remixes, blogging, tracking and feeding with Flicker and RSS, listing sites and get into YAHOO! Groups and fine-tune searches than this is your book.

Paul Bausch divided the book into six short chapters categorized into searching, using services, communicating, using web services such as Perl, PHP5, Python, VBScript, ColdFuson, XSLT, java, Ruby and REBOL), running applications and webmastering.

Of course the author didn’t do this all on his own. He had help from at least 13 others in order to come up with 100 Tips and techniques for mastering YAHOO!

If you want to come up to speed quickly and want to get geeky with YAHOO!, this book fits the bill.