Author: Jeff Barr

Photo: Phil H. Webber/Seattle Post-Intelligencer Microsoft’s Robert Scoble paid a visit to the Amazon office in Seattle earlier this week. If you are coming to this blog as a result of Robert’s blog entry, thanks for coming, and welcome. Robert interviewed Jeff Barr and Steve Rabuchin of the Amazon Web Services Developer Relations team. We […]

Developer John Kern has developed DidUKnow, an AWS-powered application for the Nokia Series 60 Phone. DidUKnow features searching, a tabbed interface, and and detailed information on each matching product. John has made the product available for free downloading at http://kernj.cnc.net/portfolio.html .

If you are trying to use the AWIS service in conjunction with VB.Net, you may find this sample program helpful.

A new article (“Running the Amazon Web Services Sample Application in Netbeans“) starts out with a complete set of step-by-step directions for installing the proper “moving parts” needed to run Java applications and the NetBeans integrated development environment. After the prerequisites are out of the way, the article then shows how to create a NetBeans […]

According to a recent article (“Lack of Skilled Devs Slows Web Services“) in Integration Developer News, a lack of skilled developers is hampering the adoption of web services in the enterprise. Development managers are having a hard time finding people who understand the various specifications and the ways to build the interfaces. Based on a […]

TitleZ retrieves current and historic sales rank data for Amazon book titles, displaying trends in graphic and numeric form for each analysis and decision making. The product is targeted at publishers, acquisition editors, agents, marketers, and authors; it can be used to make competitive buying, selling, and publishing decisions. Learn more about how it appeals […]

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 […]