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Brian Graf's software blog
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Tuesday, July 16, 2002 |
Amazon API. Cool, Amazon releases their a web service API! Interfaces to the Amazon API are an rpc/encoded SOAP endpoint described with WSDL and a raw XML over HTTP endpoint described using XML schemas & prose. Savvy move. There are already some quite interesting uses of the API: BookWatch combines RSS, the Google API and the Amazon API; and Similarities Graph which creates diagrams of the similarities between books. For example, check out the Similarities Graph for C# Essentials. One thing I noticed was that both the WSDL and XSDs type everything as string even if a more specific schema type exists. For example, in the SOAP API /Details/ImageUrlSmall is typed as xs:string, I would have expected this to be xs:anyURI. Any thoughts on why they chose this route? [Peter Drayton's Radio Weblog]
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Smoking is not as hard to quit as they tell you it is. The first week is relatively difficult, while your body is dealing with the physical addiction, and then it gets a lot easier.[Scripting News]
This very realization was what made my most recent attempt to quit so successful. The mental aspect of this particular addiction is the killer.
10:33:19 AM
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 We're up to 36 - a big thank you to all who have joined! [jenett.radio]
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Last Update: 10/25/2002; 5:10:01 PM
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