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Y! Traffic Data RSS Feed
Yahoo!’s jumped on the Dashboard bandwagon with their Y! Local Traffic widget. As someone who has been hacking around with Dashboard, I know that for this to work, Yahoo has to expose the data in an...
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When in doubt, POST.
The original eBay Web services API is neither REST nor SOAP. It’s a bastardized version of REST, where you always POST to the same URI. (The verb is located inside the POST data, which is an XML...
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Wanted: One Kick Ass eBay Evangelist
I am on the look out for a top notch evangelist for my team at eBay. If that’s you, or someone you know, contact me. The eBay Developers Program enables third party programmers to write applications...
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Tim Bray on the 80/20 Rule
I’m listening to Tim Bray talk about technology winners and losers over the past decade or two. He’s framing it within the context of Web services (REST vs SOAP), but one of his key takeaways is that...
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Adam’s Fall Conference Schedule
Now that’s I’m back from FOO Camp, I’m checking my calendar to see what conference events I have coming up. For those of you keeping track (hi mom!), here they are: Microsoft PDC: September 13-16 in...
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How eBay Uses Metadata to Enhance Its Web Services
Alan Lewis has a great article up on XML.com on embedding meta-data inside WSDL files. Since we rev our Web services API every two weeks, we run into versioning problems that aren’t well covered by...
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ApacheCon Slides Are Finished
ApacheCon has begun and I am happy to say I have finished my ApacheCon slides. My talk on Consuming Web Services Using PHP 5 isn’t until Wednesday afternoon. Therefore, I technically have a few days...
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Dirty Secrets of OSCON 2006
Under the heading of better two weeks late than never, here are my slides for my OSCON talk Dirty Secrets of PHP 5’s ext/soap Extension. As usual, I had a great time at the show. It was fun to see all...
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PHP Trivia Contest: DOM + Default Namespaces
Here’s a question based on a recent PHP bug report which shows why DOM is fun. Given the following line of PHP: $xml = DOMDocument::loadXML( '<r xmlns="urn:a"/>'); The easy way to print the...
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PHP SOAP vs. SDO
In my role as eBay Platform Evangelist, I spend a lot of time exploring different XML technologies. SOAP is obviously the big one. I use the PHP 5 ext/soap extension, which is great, but there’s...
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