MySpace is not LAMP either - they run a Microsoft stack and rely heavily on SQL Server. They spoke at the Microsoft MIX conference and were very complimentary of Microsoft. Check your facts, dude.
You are missing the point. This is a new web service targeted at developers building apps that need online storage. It is not targeted at geeks who want to upload their personal porn collection via FTP or rsynch. For web service developers, REST and SOAP are both good options. You should be looking at something like box.net (no vast data mining operation there), or waiting for G Drive (although G are the data-mining kings, so they are probably off your short list).
Short answer: No, you no longer have to pay. At our developer conference earlier this week we announced that there is no longer a fee to certify your application (which gives you access to the production systems).
Alan Lewis Technical Evangelist eBay Developers Program
One could certainly develop a tool that uses eBay Web Services to filter eBay search results in ways that are not supported out of the box. You could use the XML over HTTPS or SOAP APIs to do this, and we recently released a REST API that supports our search call (GetSearchResults). With the increased call limits and removal of the certification fee, writing such an application for your personal use (or to share with/sell to others) is now feasible.
One application I want to write when I get some time -- maybe after eBay Live -- is a tool that automatically includes the static or calculated shipping price in the current price of auction listings, so that I can then sort search results by the real total cost.
Alan Lewis Technical Evangelist eBay Developers Program
You're right. 50 calls a day is kinda restrictive. That's why we've come to our senses and upped the limit for the individual tier to 10,000 calls a month (about 6 times as many calls). Oh, and as Bruce mentioned, we've gotten rid of the fee that you had to pay to make calls to the eBay production server.
Alan Lewis Technical Evangelist eBay Developers Program
Here is how you set the option. Click on Advanced Search, then on Customize search options, then click the Customize Display tab. Move the "Shipping cost" option into the Colums to Display window and click Save.
If you want to get all geeked out, you could write a cool search utility using the eBay APIs (http://developer.ebay.com/) that included the shipping cost in the total cost for each search result.
How funny is that if the one thing that actually may make Flash useful (one-screen Web GUIs) would be patented? As if people needed more reasons not to use Flash...
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Pierre Omidyar = guy who started eBay. Surely you've heard of it, no?
MySpace is not LAMP either - they run a Microsoft stack and rely heavily on SQL Server. They spoke at the Microsoft MIX conference and were very complimentary of Microsoft. Check your facts, dude.
You are missing the point. This is a new web service targeted at developers building apps that need online storage. It is not targeted at geeks who want to upload their personal porn collection via FTP or rsynch. For web service developers, REST and SOAP are both good options. You should be looking at something like box.net (no vast data mining operation there), or waiting for G Drive (although G are the data-mining kings, so they are probably off your short list).
Short answer: No, you no longer have to pay. At our developer conference earlier this week we announced that there is no longer a fee to certify your application (which gives you access to the production systems).
Alan Lewis
Technical Evangelist
eBay Developers Program
One could certainly develop a tool that uses eBay Web Services to filter eBay search results in ways that are not supported out of the box. You could use the XML over HTTPS or SOAP APIs to do this, and we recently released a REST API that supports our search call (GetSearchResults). With the increased call limits and removal of the certification fee, writing such an application for your personal use (or to share with/sell to others) is now feasible.
One application I want to write when I get some time -- maybe after eBay Live -- is a tool that automatically includes the static or calculated shipping price in the current price of auction listings, so that I can then sort search results by the real total cost.
Alan Lewis
Technical Evangelist
eBay Developers Program
You're right. 50 calls a day is kinda restrictive. That's why we've come to our senses and upped the limit for the individual tier to 10,000 calls a month (about 6 times as many calls). Oh, and as Bruce mentioned, we've gotten rid of the fee that you had to pay to make calls to the eBay production server.
Alan Lewis
Technical Evangelist
eBay Developers Program
Here is how you set the option. Click on Advanced Search, then on Customize search options, then click the Customize Display tab. Move the "Shipping cost" option into the Colums to Display window and click Save.
If you want to get all geeked out, you could write a cool search utility using the eBay APIs (http://developer.ebay.com/) that included the shipping cost in the total cost for each search result.
I'll speak on behalf of every other Californian. You're welcome.
Have at it: http://tivohme.sourceforge.net/
ten points if you can name another company that does what halliburton does
Schlumberger. I'll take my ten points, please.
In fact, "infact" is two words.
I took a look at the demo site here, and it actually is kinda impressive. However, at the bottom of the reservation system I noticed this:
Circle-C 2001 Webvertising Circle-R Patent Pending
How funny is that if the one thing that actually may make Flash useful (one-screen Web GUIs) would be patented? As if people needed more reasons not to use Flash...