Author: Jeff Barr

IBM DeveloperWorks has published a new article: XML Matters: Beyond the DOM. Written by Dethe Elza, the article covers advanced DOM functions such as insertAfter and prependChild, a technique for making the Internet Explorer DOM a bit more consistent with the DOM standard, some shortcut functions, and advanced traversal of the DOM tree.

There’s a new AWS Integration project on sourceforge.net. Here are the goals: The AWS Integration project provides a Java DAO layer to client applications making the Amazon Web Services (AWS) even easier to use, especially for J2EE developers. Using the integration API, you don’t have to work with the web services directly, or even through […]

The new TicTap service lets you search the Amazon product catalog using an SMS (text) message. To get started with TicTap, simply send an ISBN number, a UPC code, or even some keywords to 763-807-3927 and wait for the reply. TicTap performs an ECS search and returns the results to you as a text message. […]

StrikeIron has released the OnDemand Web Services for Microsoft Excel. Using this product it is easy to  add web services calls to any Excel spreadsheet using simple point and click operations. You can download and try the product for free,  and you can see the product in action by watching the screencast.

To continue to provide high-quality, reliable and secure web services, ECS will enforce a stricter Developer Token validation policy. Please check that you are passing in a valid Developer Token with your request. If you are using an invalid Developer Token, you will need to replace it with a valid Subscription ID. For help, visit […]

Many people  find WSDL (and the new WSDL 2) to be hard to create, and hard to use, even with tools and other high-level support. Tim Bray of Sun has been talking about Replacing WSDL. Candidates include Norm Walsh’s NSDL and Tim’s own SMEX-D. It is premature to talk about any Amazon support for these […]

Dealazon has just released their Amazon Dashboard Search Widget for the Tiger release of Mac OS X: The Widget supports 6 Amazon locales (US, UK, Germany, France, Japan, and Canada) and is available now as a free download.

Application Development Trends magazine has published a new Case Study: Amazon.com sets up shop for developers.

Jesse Andrews has built Book Burro, a Firefox extension to display competitive pricing information for books. The information is presented in an inobstrusive, semi-transparent popup window. In order to install this you will need Firefox and Greasemonkey. Greasemonkey allows your browser to run client-side scripts against any web page. Think of it as local post-processing […]

The Simple Queue Service has been updated with performance and bugs fixes, most of it driven from the developer community that has helped shape it since its introduction in November, 2004. The Amazon Simple Queue Service Beta 2 provides a means for web service applications to quickly and reliably queue resources generated by a component […]