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Decay in the Amazon APIs 24 Feb 2011 | 02:35 am
In Chapter 17 of Pro Web 2.0 Mashups, I created a mashup of an Amazon Wishlist and Google Spreadsheets. When I returned to examine my code last night, I learned that it no longer worked. Why? First,...
Mapper for serializing XML ElementTree with SQLAlchemy 2 Jul 2010 | 03:40 am
This morning I've been working out how to configure a SQLAlchemy mapper to enable me to store an XML blob to relational databases. Storing the XML element is a bit of hack right now; ultimately, I w...
LinkedIn API: First steps using Python 6 Feb 2010 | 12:27 pm
My enthusiasm for LinkedIn increased dramatically once I learned that LinkedIn had opened up its API to the public at large. What is still unclear to me is how much the API allows one to get data in...
Zotero REST API: early developments 29 Jan 2010 | 07:58 am
Readers of my book know that I'm an avid user of social bookmarking and online bibliographic systems. As a big fan of Zotero ("a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and c...
Updates to Chapter 1 26 Jan 2010 | 06:35 am
Some updates I'm making to Chapter 1 Re: LibraryLookup Bookmarklet -- http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/stories/2002/12/11/librarylookup.html -> http://jonudell.net/LibraryLookupGenerator.html . T...
Creating book XHTML from DocBook 22 Jan 2010 | 11:38 am
Ever since Pro Web 2.0 Mashups came out, I've wanted to get the book on the web. Publishing PDFs was a start -- but I have envisioned developing a full-blown web application, a book that would could ...
a rough XHTML version of my book is now live 21 Jan 2010 | 06:43 am
I'm pleased to announce that I've posted an XHTML version of Pro Web 2.0 Mashups: Remixing Data and Web Services. This should make it much easier for folks to use my book. It also opens up some goo...
Google Mashup Editor will be shut down 19 Jan 2009 | 11:31 am
I'm sad about the announcement that Google is shutting down its Mashup Editor -- one reason being that I had spent a fair amount of effort writing about it in Chapter 11 of my book. Oh well. The Go...
Services built upon Amazon EC2 19 Dec 2008 | 12:05 pm
According to How To: Getting Started with Amazon EC2 - PaulStamatiou.com, the following services are built on top of EC2 (and thereby perhaps make scaling up EC2 easier): Web-based Cloud Computing Ma...
S3Ajax: creating buckets and uploading keys 18 Dec 2008 | 05:50 am
Continuing on Mashup Guide :: listing keys with S3Ajax, here I present a Chickenfoot script to create a bucket and upload a file (specifically, it creates a bucket by the name of raymondyeetest and up...