Forum OpenACS Development: Bookshelf package integrated with Amazon Web Services

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1: Bookshelf package integrated with Amazon Web Services
Posted by Bart Teeuwisse on 01/06/03 05:08 AM
I've integrated the Lars's Bookshelf package with Amazon's Web Services. Using tDom I've been able to parse Amazon's XML repsonses efficiently and integrate Amazon reviews, similar books as well as an Amazon Quick-Link buying link with Bookshelf reviews.

The information from Amazon is cached to minimize network delays.

Visit http://www.thecodemill.biz/publications/bookshelf/ for an example.

I could commit my changes to the OpenACS repository if the community feels that this addition is a valuable one.

/Bart

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2: Re: Bookshelf package integrated with Amazon Web Services (response to 1)
Posted by Sam Snow on 01/06/03 04:12 PM
Bart,

http://www.thecodemill.biz/publications/bookshelf/ is currently hic-uping up a Request Error instead of the example. 😢

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3: Re: Bookshelf package integrated with Amazon Web Services (response to 1)
Posted by Lars Pind on 01/06/03 05:28 PM
Bart,

Sounds like a very valuable addition indeed. Thanks for doing this.

It would be really nice if the Amazon functionality could be available for other packages as well.

I'd say go ahead and commit (once you've fixed the bug that causes the page you linked to give a server error :).

/Lars

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4: Re: Bookshelf package integrated with Amazon Web Services (response to 3)
Posted by Bart Teeuwisse on 01/07/03 05:19 AM
Sorry guys,

my you happend to hit our server while we switched Internet provider. The error is caused by a timeout on the connection to Amazon. I've taken advantage to make all communication to Amazon (including yours Lars ;)) more robust.

We're expected to be online some time tomorrow (Tue Jan 7th 2003).

/Bart

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5: Re: Bookshelf package integrated with Amazon Web Services (response to 1)
Posted by Venkatesh Goteti on 01/08/03 03:36 PM
Has anyone done anything with Bookshelf package for Oracle? Currently, it only seems to work with Postgres
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6: Re: Bookshelf package integrated with Amazon Web Services (response to 5)
Posted by Bart Teeuwisse on 01/08/03 08:58 PM
Venkatesh,

no port to Oracle exists that I'm aware of. However, it should not be hard to do.

/Bart

P.S. The bookshelf integrated with Amazon's web services is available again at http://www.thecodemill.biz/publications/bookshelf/.

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7: Re: Bookshelf package integrated with Amazon Web Services (response to 1)
Posted by Dave Bauer on 07/18/03 07:26 PM
Does anyone have this code? Bart's bookshelf page is timing out.

Thanks!

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8: Re: Bookshelf package integrated with Amazon Web Services (response to 1)
Posted by Yves Goldberg on 01/28/04 09:54 AM
In bookshelf; the code is Lars' amazon-procs.tcl

Is Bart's amazon code available somewhere?

thanks.
Yves.

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9: Re: Bookshelf package integrated with Amazon Web Services (response to 1)
Posted by Malte Sussdorff on 08/16/05 07:17 AM
Does anyone have this code? I'd like to update bookshelf to make use of it.