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Decay in the Amazon APIs

In Chapter 17 of Pro Web 2.0 Mashups, I created a mashup of an Amazon Wishlist and Google Spreadsheets. When I returned to examine my code last night, I learned that it no longer worked.  Why?  First, the  Amazon Ecommerce API morphed into the Amazon Product Advertising API; I was puzzled why the API wasn't […]

Mapper for serializing XML ElementTree with SQLAlchemy

This morning I've been working out how to configure a SQLAlchemy mapper to enable me to store an XML blob to relational databases.  Storing the XML element is a bit of  hack right now; ultimately, I want to map all the relevant pieces of the XML to appropriate Python object attributes.  But until I figure […]

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