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Here’s how I literally wasted eight hours of my life. :-) We signed up for Yahoo! Search Boss last week. The process itself was pretty straight: Sign into your Yahoo! account at https://developer.apps.yahoo.com/ Click “New Project”, fill out the form. Then click on the project name, activate “Yahoo! Search Boss” by suppling some billing info. Consumer key rejected? The above process doesn’t even take five minutes, but then I spent eight hours figuring out what oauth_problem=consumer_key_rejected means....

After running away screaming from Zend_XmlRpc we migrated of our internal webservices are RESTful nowadays — which implies that we make heavy use of HTTP status codes and so on. On the PHP side of things we implemented almost all of those webservices using the Zend Framework where some parts are replaced by in-house replacements (mostly stripped-down and optimized versions equivalents of Zend_Foo) and a couple nifty PEAR packages. RESTful — how does it work?...