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Sunday, May 18, 2003
Amazon.com is Next Target of O'Reilly's "Hacks"
Tech book publisher O'Reilly plans to follow up its smash hit "Google Hacks" with a title about how to manipulate another one of the Web's burgeoning platforms -- Amazon.com, with its Amazon Web Services initiative.
The AWS is similar to Google's Web API, and both of these technologies are based on web services, the "holy grail" of Internet programming that's supposed to link all web apps to one another. To learn more about how you, too, can hack the e-commerce giant, read on.
Oh, and in case you were wondering about the "Hacks" series, O'Reilly explains that they adopted the "hacking" label for this book series (other titles include "Mac OS X Hacks" and "Linux Hacks") not to indicate the malicious activities that is usually associated with the concept, but to "reclaim the true spirit of hacking," which is an activity engaged in by adventurous programmers looking to solve problems or devise creative programs.
To see an example of the Amazon Web Service in action, check out Amazon Lite.
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Cory Kleinschmidt
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