May
14
Professional Web APIs with PHP eBay Google Paypal Amazon FedEx plus Web Feeds
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by Paul Reinheimer (Author)
Product Details
Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: Wrox (July 31, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0764589547
ISBN-13: 978-0764589546
Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.3 x 0.9 inches
Book Description
- Offers hands-on tips and numerous code examples that show Web developers how to leverage content and feeds from today’s top Web sites-including Google, eBay, PayPal, Amazon, Yahoo!, and FedEx
- Introduces APIs (Application Program Interfaces) in general and uses real-world examples that show how to produce and document them
- Explains how to use the popular scripting language PHP to create APIs that interact with unrelated applications over the Web
- Examples take readers through each stage of the API process, from basic test implementations to integration with existing sites
From the Back Cover
As the only book that details how to integrate different APIs and web feeds in PHP so websites can leverage content from eBay, Google, PayPal, Amazon, and FedEx, this hands-on guide takes you step by step through each stage of the API process. Experienced PHP programmer Paul Michael Reinheimer walks you through the production and consumption angles of web feeds and discusses XML-feeds so that you can access one of the fastest growing trends on the web. With real-world examples covering everything from basic test implementations to integration with existing sites, you’ll learn how to produce and document your own APIs, which will allow you to expand your sites and may even prompt you to re-examine how you structure your code.What you will learn from this book
- How to add a third party API to your site or program one of your own
- Ways that a small ISP can use the Yahoo!® XML feed to publish recent technology on a site
- Why APIs are the preferred method for disparate applications to interact over the web
- Differences between the functions of APIs and web feeds and the benefits each has to offer
- The basic structure for REST and SOAP APIs
Who this book is for
This book is for programmers who have a strong understanding of PHP and are looking for detailed coverage of multiple APIs in PHP.
Wrox Professional guides are planned and written by working programmers to meet the real-world needs of programmers, developers, and IT professionals. Focused and relevant, they address the issues technology professionals face every day. They provide examples, practical solutions, and expert education in new technologies, all designed to help programmers do a better job. Read more
May
14
Pro PHP XML and Web Services
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by Robert Richards (Author)
Product Details
Hardcover: 936 pages
Publisher: Apress (March 27, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1590596331
ISBN-13: 978-1590596333
Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 7.1 x 2 inches
Book Description
— Nathan Smith, Godbit Project
Pro PHP XML and Web Services is the authoritative guide to using the XML features of PHP 5 and PHP 6. No other book covers XML and Web Services in PHP as deeply as this title. The first four chapters introduce the core concepts of XML required for proficiency, and will bring you up to speed on the terminology and key concepts you need to proceed with the rest of the book. Next, the book explores utilizing XML and Web Services with PHP5. Topics include DOM, SimpleXML, SAX, xmlReader, XSLT, RDF, RSS, WDDX, XML-RPC, REST, SOAP, and UDDI.
Author Robert Richards, a major contributor to the PHP XML codebase, is a leading expert in the PHP community. In this book, Richards covers all topics in depth, blending theory with practical examples. Youll find case studies for the most popular web services like Amazon, Google, eBay, and Yahoo. The book also covers XML capabilities, demonstrated through informative examples, in the PEAR libraries.
About the Author
Robert Richards, currently an independent contractor, has worked in various fields including Medical Information, Telecommunications, Media and E-Learning. Having been exposed to XML since its inception and used for various projects during his career, his most extensive work with the technology was within the E-Learning space. He helped created a proprietary XML based application server which used XML for data publishing, defining application business logic as well as data querying. He was also the lead engineer for the company’s involvement in SCORM (Shareable Content Object Reference Model), used for Web based learning, established by the Department of Defense through its Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) initiative.
After becoming the latest casualty of the “dot-com” implosion in 2001, Rob had his first taste of PHP and began contributing code to the domxml extension in 2002. Since then he became one of the authors of the DOM extension for PHP 5, contributes to the other XML based extensions and has authored the xmlReader, for PHP 5, and xmlwriter, for PHP 4.3+, extensions. Also on occasion, he contributes bug fixes to the libxml2 project found during the development of these extensions. Read more
Apr
21
Apress The Definitive Guide to Building Java Robots.
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By Scott Preston
Amazon Sales Rank: #323433 in Books
Brand: APress
Published on: 2005-11-11
Product Description
The way Scott lays out the book is really good too . . . He explains everything in easy to understand terms and provides sample code that you can use right away.
— Jim Brown, Robots.net
The Definitive Guide to Building Java Robots is for educators, students, hobbyists, and startups looking for Java/hardware interaction. This book shows you how to use your PC to build robots, and how you can interface with a microcontroller to do the basics. Youll learn to design your robot to navigate, see, speak, recognize your face, listen to you, and build maps.
For up-to-the-minute information, check out Scott’s Bots, the author’s own website.
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Apr
21
Programming Spiders, Bots, and Aggregators in Java
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By Jeff Heaton
Amazon Sales Rank: #434219 in Books
Brand: Sybex
Published on: 2002-02
Product Description
The content and services available on the web continue to be accessed mostly through direct human control. But this is changing. Increasingly, users rely on automated agents that save them time and effort by programmatically retrieving content, performing complex interactions, and aggregating data from diverse sources. Programming Spiders, Bots, and Aggregators in Java teaches you how to build and deploy a wide variety of these agents-from single-purpose bots to exploratory spiders to aggregators that present a unified view of information from multiple user accounts.
You will quickly build on your basic knowledge of Java to quickly master the techniques that are essential to this specialized world of programming, including parsing HTML, interpreting data, working with cookies, reading and writing XML, and managing high-volume workloads. You’ll also learn about the ethical issues associated with bot use–and the limitations imposed by some websites.
This book offers two levels of instruction, both of which are focused on the library of routines provided on the companion CD. If your main concern is adding ready-made functionality to an application, you’ll achieve your goals quickly thanks to step-by-step instructions and sample programs that illustrate effective implementations. If you’re interested in the technologies underlying these routines, you’ll find in-depth explanations of how they work and the techniques required for customization. Read more
Apr
5
Google Hacks 100 Industrial-Strenght Tips & Tools
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Product Details
- by Tara Calishain (Author), Rael Dornfest (Editor)
- Paperback: 325 pages
- Publisher: O’Reilly; 1 edition (February 1, 2003)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0596004478
- ISBN-13: 978-0596004477
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
Everyone loves Google, and it’s the first place many people turn to locate information on the Internet. There’s a big gap, though, between knowing that you can use Google to get advance information on your blind date and having a handle on the considerable roster of fact-finding tools that the site makes available. Google Hacks reveals–and documents in considerable detail–a large collection of Google capabilities that many readers won’t have even been aware of. Want to find the best price on a pair of leg warmers? Try the Froogle price-searcher that’s hidden within the Google site. Interested in finding weblog commentary about a particular subject? Tara Calishain and Rael Dornfest call your attention to the special Google syntaxes for that purpose. This book makes it clear that there’s lots more to the Google site than typing in a few keywords and trusting the search engine to yield useful results. If you’re a programmer–or even just familiar with a HTML or a scripting language–Google opens up even further. A large part of Google Hacks concerns itself with the Google API (the collection of capabilities that Google exposes for use by software) and other programmers’ resources. For example, the authors include a simple Perl application that queries the Google engine with terms specified by the user. They also document XooMLe, which delivers Google results in XML form. In brief, this is the best compendium of Google’s lesser-known capabilities available anywhere, including the Google site itself. –David Wall
Topics covered: How to get the most from the Google search engine by using its Web-accessible features (including product searches, image searches, news searches, and newsgroup searches) and the large collection of desktop-resident toolbars available, as well as its advanced search syntax. Other sections have to do with programming with the Google API and simple “scrapes” of results pages, while further coverage addresses how to get your Web page to feature prominently in Google keyword searches.
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Mar
26
Social Software and the Next Big Phase of the Internet
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Social Software and the Next Big Phase of the Internet
A Conversation with Clay Shirky
If you’re suffering from Internet fatigue, this is the interview that may revive your enthusiasm! Since the dot-com crash we’ve tended to assume that everything about the Internet has been said and that most of it was overblown, irrelevant to business, or just plain wrong. But while many Internet companies have died, and many e-business models have been discredited, the Internet itself remains alive and well.
In fact, over the last several years, new computer technologies have kept improving, new software has evolved, new users have continued to connect and expand the network, new constituencies have formed, and new life forms have come to populate the Web. Once again the developments happening on and through the Internet are becoming important for businesses to watch-for very different reasons than before.
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Mar
26
Can Internet TV have frontiers
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Can Internet TV have frontiers?
RAND Europe informs the European Commission’s TVWF impact assessment
This brief summarises the results of RAND Europe research, requested by the European Commission (EC) to inform the EC’s assessment of options for revising and extending the existing ‘TV Without Frontiers’ (TVWF) Directive.
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Mar
26
Codev2 by Lawrence Lessig
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Codev2 by Lawrence Lessig
From the Preface: “This is a translation of an old book—indeed, in Internet time, it is a translation of an ancient text.” That text is Lessig’s “Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace.” The second version of that book is “Code v2.” The aim of Code v2 is to update the earlier work, making its argument more relevant to the current internet.
Code v2 was written in part through a collaborative Wiki. That version is still accessible here. Lessig took the Wiki text as of 12/31/05, and then added his own edits. Code v2 is the result.
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Mar
26
Java Pro Magazine, 2006 Vol.10 No.2
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Java Pro Magazine, 2006 Vol.10 No.2
Java Pro Magazine: The guide to Enterprise Java
The #1 independent resource that Enterprise J2EE developers turn to every day.
Cover Story: Finding the Best Value in Java IDEs
Productivity is critical in today’s enterprise development environments, and it should be among your primary criteria when evaluating development tools. However, productivity is difficult to measure absolutely because of the nature of developer skills and the projects to which those skills are applied, Free and open source IDEs further complicate the picture. Free solutions might seem to deliver the best value, but does free translate into productive development? Get acquainted with several IDE offerings and decide for yourself.
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Mar
26
New Rules for the New Economy
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New Rules for the New Economy
by Kevin Kelly
Kevin Kelly’s New Rules for the New Economy is regarded as the bible of cyber economy. Kevin Kelly, Wired’s chief editor, is a guru in the Internet research area. His book has got a insight into the differences between cyber economy and traditional solution, and concludes 10 classical laws. Although proposed in the age of Internet 1.0, since having grasped Internet’s deep-seated law, they are also suitable for Internet 2.0. Through the comparison, the advantage of Internet 2.0 over 1.0 can be seen.
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