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MSDN Web Services Development Center
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.
Read MoreZipKeys — Simplify the Creation of Amazon Marketplace Listings
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 […]
Read MoreHiking Outpost
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.
Read MoreAmazon Store for Dot Net Nuke
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 […]
Read MoreDeveloper Token Validation
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.
Read MoreXSLT Programming Tip
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.
Read MorePerl DBI Module for ECS
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.
Read MorePerl Interface to SQS and AWIS
Leon Brocard wrote a Perl interface to the Amazon Simple Queue service earlier this year. You can find Net::Amazon::SimpleQueue at any CPAN site. You can start with the README and then download and install the module. Leon also wrote a module for the Alexa Web Information Service, Net::Amazon::AWIS (and the README).
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