Author: Jeff Barr

The newest issue of Business Week includes an article called Mix, Match, and Mutate. As the author says, “hordes of volunteer programmers are taking it upon themselves to combine and remix the data and services of unrelated, even competing sites.” In the AWS world we’ve already seen this happen with cool applications such as  Book […]

Vance McCarthy tells us how to Unlock XML’s Secret Powers, providing 5 handy tips.

Recognizing the ever-growing importance of Web Services, Microsoft has consolidated a lot of useful developer information within the Web Services and Other Distributed Technologies Developer Center on MSDN.

This application is a bit different than most of the others that have  been covered in this blog, but it should be of interest nevertheless. ZipKeys simplifies repetitive data entry tasks. It can be used as a customer support tool, making it easier to reply to emails with canned replies or “blurbs.” It can also […]

The Hiking Outpost site blends Amazon product data pulled from ECS with camping and trail information taken from all over the web into one convenient and very useful interface. The site also uses the ECS Remote Shopping Cart.

Dot Net Nuke is a free, open-source content management system (CMS) for the Microsoft ASP.Net platform. The WCC Amazon Portal is an instant Amazon store for DotNetNuke. Using AWS, product data and images are integrated seamlessly into DotNetNuke pages for a professional presentation and a smooth user experience. the product supports every locale supported by […]

We are in the process of rolling out Developer Token validation for ECS 3.0 today. As we have been saying for a while now, if you don’t pass in a valid developer token, your ECS requests are going to fail. Read more at the Developer Token Validation FAQ.

An XSLT tip: Implement a loop using recursion with XSLT. You can find many more interesting articles and tips related to XML and XSLT in the IBM Developerworks XML Zone.

In the Perl community, DBI is a database abstraction layer (read more about DBI here and here). Using this layer, an application can access a number of different data sources using a single, common API. There’s even a DBI Tutorial. The newest member of the DBI family is DBD::Amazon.

IBM’s developerWorks is publishing a 3-part series on the use of AWS with Java, under the title  Boost application development with Amazon Web Services. Written by Eric Giguere, the tutorial is described as follows: This tutorial provides an overview of Amazon Web Services (AWS). AWS exposes raw product information and key parts of Amazon.com technology […]