Web & Programming Goodies

As part of a side project that I have been working on in my spare time, I've created a website called Deal Hammer  which can be used to search the depths of Amazon for discounted items and free super saver delivery etc. One of the features i wanted to add to my site was to be able to pull a list of the best selling items back from the API. Now with the Amazon Product Advertising API, there is, as some of you will know, no option or quick way to pull back these items. You could head over to the affiliate site and use their tool to generate a custom link with your associates tag to 1 specific item (repeat for how ever many items you want link for) and update them every week or so, but that defeats the point of making a dynamic website, plus it would be a massive time waster also! Another option is to use their RSS feed and parse the XML, which works quite well, but you don't really have much control over the data you display, the issue i found was that Amazon brought back a

Hello and welcome to what will hopefully be a blog full of helpful and handy web / programming based posts. During my time as a web developer, I've searched through google countless times trying to find answer to issues i might have had whilst programming. For the majority of it I've found what I've been after, but for all those other times I've had to figure it out myself and it's those times that i want to blog about, so that hopefully someone who has the same problem as me, will be able to find my blog posts which will hopefully point them in the right direction!