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At the Graphing Social Patterns conference last week, I was lucky to meet Rodney Rumford from the excellent FaceReviews blog. He asked me some very interesting questions about OpenSocial and the future of social applications. You can find the interview on his blog, or from YouTube. I’ll expand on one of the themes we talked […]

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The SOA Kongress 2006 organizers were kind enough to invite me to give a keynote about Google APIs: Search, Advertising and Commerce. • 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 (SOAP) • […]

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Here are the slides from this session that I presented at the Zend conference yesterday with Jason Chen. I presented the work of my apprentice Thomas Steiner, ie a business mashup of the Google AdWords and Checkout APIs. The mashup I presented yesterday still needs to be cleaned up a bit before we post it […]

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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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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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