Curiouser and Curiouser! on web-services http://matt.blogs.it/ RSS feed for topic web-services Copyright 2006 Matt Mower Squib/0.1 self@mattmower.com self@mattmower.com en-gb Interactive soap Thu, 21 Aug 2003 19:53:58 +0100 <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <P><A href="http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/2003/08/21.html#a778">Acrobat and InfoPath</A>. Look at Adobe's <A href="http://www.adobe.com/products/server/readerextensions/pdfs/incometaxform.pdf">interactive income tax form</A>. That document is licensed, by the Document Server for Reader Extensions, to unlock the form fill-in and digital signature capabilities of the reader. Filling in a form and then signing it digitally is an eye-opening experience. It's more interesting now that the form's data is schema-controlled and, Myers adds, can flow in and out by way of WSDL-defined SOAP transactions. The only missing InfoPath ingredient is a forms designer that nonprogrammers can use to map between schema elements and form fields. That's just what the recently announced Adobe Forms Designer intends to be. I like where Adobe is going. The familiarity of paper forms matters to lots of people. And unless Microsoft's strategy changes radically, those folks are far likelier to have an Adobe reader than an InfoPath client. [Full story at <A href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/08/15/32OPstrategic_1.html">InfoWorld.com</A>] <B>...</B> [<A href="http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/">Jon's Radio</A>]</P></BLOCKQUOTE> <P>Acrobat really do have it to lose.&nbsp; I do like the idea of forms being able to make interactive SOAP calls.</P> http://matt.blogs.it/entries/00001575.html Something i've noticed about Amazon Mon, 16 Jan 2006 15:46:04 +0000 <p>I've gotten into the habit of leaving a bunch of stuff in my Amazon shopping cart. If I see something interesting I put it in the cart and click the <em>Later</em> button so I don't accidentally order it. Now, when I go back to my cart it tells me if the price of items in the cart has gone up or down. Quite often I will go there one day and find a bunch of items 5UKP cheaper. Sometimes this is a cue to me to buy them although I have resisted that urge for about 3 months now (economy drive).</p> <p>It did make me wonder whether you could build a service that let me enter the price I <em>would</em> pay for particular items and then automatically buy those items for me if and when they reach that price. Could you do it with the Amazon API?</p> http://matt.blogs.it/entries/00003219.html