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Tomorrow I will present Fun and Profit with the Google Checkout API at XML 2006. Checkout is a REST XML + HTTP API relying on Basic Auth over SSL and HMAC_SHA1 signatures for security. It is one of the most simple Google APIs: for level 1 integration all you need is a generated snippet of […]

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Last friday we released an HTML API for Google Checkout. This is a middle ground between the pregenerated static ‘Buy Now’ Buttons and the XML API that most people would implement on the server side. You just build a form with a list of hidden fields and an image to represent the button. No more […]

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Today I presented 5 Google APIs in a keynote at SOA Kongress in Mainz, Germany. Google APIs: Search, Advertising and Commerce slides (PDF, HTML) • API technologies: SOAP, REST and Ajax • What: Google Ajax Search API • Where: Google Maps API (Ajax) • When: Google Calendar Data API (REST) • Advertising: Google AdWords API […]

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Logging this weird platform specific inconsistency in java jar tool as an example of why the java mantra “Write Once, Run Anywhere” is difficult to achieve. Recently I received a code drop from a third party, a java application that they developed on Linux. When I built it I received an IO Exception in jar. […]

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See the talk details on the SIG site: How to design a Domain Specific Language (DSL)” by David Pollak “Domain Specific Languages allow a domain expert to describe computational behavior using high level semantics and simple syntax. Designing a DSL requires learning the “words” used in the domain, choosing appropriate expressive tools, and “crawling into […]

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Google Checkout has an API and I start playing with it. Today I registered for a merchant account, in 30 minute (15 of them eaten in creating store.chanezon.com in my dns, then creating a virtual host, then creating a directory for it), then asked for a custom Checkout button to sell dummy emails: you can […]

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I’m doing an AdWords API lib in C# these days, and since I do most of my dev on Mac , I decided to give Mono a go. The install of Mono on Mac OS X is a snap: download, mount, install, done! However the wsdl generation tool’s not there yet: wsdl “https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/v5/AccountService?wsdl” Mono Web […]

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After using Radio UserLand (C), Movable Type (Perl), Blojsom (Java), Roller (Java) and Typo (Ruby) I move my blog to WordPress. My main reason for moving is that the version of Typo I’m using is very unstable and it crashes Apache every day. I ended up having a cron job to kill -9 ruby processes […]

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Personal This is Patrick Chanezon’s blog, an online place where I share thoughts, code, and a few haikus. I’m old, married to Dorothee Chabas, a brilliant neurologist specialized in Multiple Sclerosis. We have 3 great kids: Eliette (), Simon () and Charlotte (). Professional I have worked as a software engineer for 10 years at […]

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