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Title: Mining Amazon Web Services: Building Applications with the Amazon API by John Paul Mueller, Sybex ISBN: 0-7821-4307-5 Publisher: Sybex Pub. Date: 23 January, 2004 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Amazon Web Services in Detail
Comment: I don't regularly program anything, so I approached this book with more than a little concern about my ability to comprehend it. I've created a few VBA macros for Word, but that's about it. This book got me going very quickly. First, it told me what I could expect and that's something most books don't do very well. After that, it told me that Web services are actually pretty simple, and the author used coding techniques that made it apparent that he wasn't lying. In fact, let me take that back, the first example didn't really need any code--it used a specialized URL to do the job.
I'll admit that I didn't read the whole book, but the author said I probably wouldn't need the whole book in the introduction. My main concern was the VBA examples, but I also tried the JavaScript examples out of curiosity. All of the examples I tried worked as the author said they would on the first try even. All of the details were there and in a logical order.
The highlight of the book for me is that the author tells you what you can do with Amazon Web Services in detail. I wasn't aware that you could do all this stuff with Amazon. I have a nice new Word macro now that downloads all of the latest books from my favorite authors on a weekly basis and prints out a report for me. What used to require hours of searching now takes moments. If you're an Amazon junkie like I am, you really need this book!
Rating: 4
Summary: Amazon needs tinkerers
Comment: With all of the hype about Web Services, Amazon, Google and eBay stand out as offering actual Web Services, on real databases that are many gigabytes in size, as opposed to the much smaller simulated databases that other experimental Web Services might deal with.
This book explains Amazon's approach. Mainly for developers at this stage. This is largely a programmer level interaction. While it is driven by the clear commercial prospects of third parties being able to sell through Amazon, the necessary interfacing is still too complicated for the average nontechnical person. Which may actually be incentive for some programmer to write a simpler, general purpose interface to Amazon's offerings.
All this is still early days, of course. What is needed is for people to get their hands dirty with this stuff and dream up the next stage. How about it, then?
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Title: Amazon Hacks: 100 Industrial-Strength Tips and Tools by Paul Bausch ISBN: 0596005423 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 20 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Google, Amazon, and Beyond: Creating and Consuming Web Services by Alexander Nakhimovsky, Tom Myers ISBN: 1590591313 Publisher: APress Pub. Date: 01 January, 1970 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: eBay Hacks: 100 Industrial-Strength Tips and Tools by David A. Karp ISBN: 0596005644 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 25 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Windows XP Hacks by Preston Gralla ISBN: 0596005113 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 22 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Spidering Hacks by Kevin Hemenway, Tara Calishain ISBN: 0596005776 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 01 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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