Jeff Barr is an evangelist at Amazon on its Web Services team, where his job is to tell developers all about the Amazon Web Services with the goal of having them build useful, cool and interesting applications.
Prior to 2002, developers with a need for Amazon's product data resorted to scraping the site. Since the site can change at any time, scraping is a tedious and error-prone process. With the introduction of standard data formats such as XML, XSLT, and SOAP, the foundational pieces were ...
Feb. 21, 2006 09:00 AM EST Reads: 3,049
