Amazon provides the very best web services for affiliates by frickin' far. I've been working with AWS a lot lately now that I'm pretty much settled into my new home Tonight I found a slick tool Amazon provides for  Amazon  developers called Scratch Pad. Oh baby this is sweeeet.  There's no better documention than code itself and Scratch Pad delivers just that.

For example, if I want to write a method for my own personal Amazon Web Services library (    ) that creates an Amazon shopping cart for a site,  but I'm not sure how to do it;  I can just drill down through scratch pad to this page. Since I'm a C# developer I click the "Code It!" tab enter my parameters, select C sharp in the drop down of course, and click the Code IT! button. Viola! C# code  is generated instantly.  It actually generates the entire code to create a C# console application for the operation you specify.

Looking at the code (which does end up being a bit bloated), I can fully understand how to create an Amazon shopping cart in 1/3 of the time it would have taken me to read the documentation.

Well done Amazon.

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