Some friends and I are off to Idaho for the weekend, to go to the Idaho State Fair. This will be my first experience of the Idaho State Fair. Will it be my last? We’ll just have to wait and see. I’m planning to take the camera along, so hopefully I’ll return with a photo gallery full of pigs, cows, other livestock, deep fried snickers bars , deep fried twinkies (I feel arteries clogging just thinking about it) and whatever else they have at the fair.
Three day weekends generally mean more than usual free time (always a good thing).This last weekend was no exception and yesterday I got a little bored so I decided to play around with Amazon Web Services. First I got a developers token, then played around with the xml scratchpad to see what kind of information I could pull.
About the only useful thing I could think of was pulling an XML feed of my wish list and publishing it on my weblog homepage. After much php experimentation, I now have a nice listing of the items on my Amazon wish list. Will I keep it on the page? I dunno, I did it more to see if I could do it as opposed to actually wanting it on there. I haven’t used the wish list much anyway, most of the things on there were a little out of date so I went through and updated it (sort of). However, now that I have a good idea of how to manipulate XML data using php, there may be more…what’s the word…worth while? enhancements to come.