[LRUG] User Group Programs / Addison Wesley Promo Code

[Murray Steele]

Pulling them might be a bit hard and maybe illegal, do Amazon claim
ownership of the review text once you post it?

We can certainly link to them though.  I've done a wee bit of poking about
and there seems to be a named anchor for each review, so it shouldn't be too
hard to work out the URL structure link straight to your review, at worst we
can just link to the product page.

Also there might be a plugin for radiant or rails that makes use of the
amazon webservices to do stuff it in a less hacky way.

Muz

On 09/01/07, Anthony Green <Anthony.Green at bbc.co.uk> wrote:
>
>
> My Ruby book reviews are on Amazon. Is there a way to pull these in to the
> LRUG site ?
>
>
> Anthony Green
> Client Side Developer IPS Toolkit
> BBC Radio & Music Interactive
>
>
>  ------------------------------
> *From:* chat-bounces at lrug.org [mailto:chat-bounces at lrug.org] *On Behalf Of
> *Murray Steele
> *Sent:* 09 January 2007 10:21
> *To:* London Ruby Users Group
> *Subject:* [LRUG] User Group Programs / Addison Wesley Promo Code
>
> Hi all,
>
> During my begging for prizes both the O'Reilly folk and the AW folk
> pointed me at their User Group programs.  The deal seems to be that if we
> ask for stuff and promise to provide reviews then we might actually get it.
> All we need to do is link to the reviews from the LRUG website and we should
> be good.  So, if anyone has reviewed some Ruby books (or plans to, perhaps
> because they recently acquired one at a pub quiz) then let us know and we
> can link to it and use that as leverage for more swag.
>
> As well as a copy of The Ruby Way 2nd Edition, the kind folk at Addison
> Wesley sent me a flyer for their Professional Ruby series.  The flyer has a
> discount code that'll get you 35% off at their online store and judging by
> the code it's not ruby specific.  I won't post the PDF here because the
> archives for this list are publicly available on the net and posting the
> discount code might therefore sour the arrangement.  So if you think you
> might use it (or just want a nice picture of Obie Fernandez the series
> editor) reply to this e-mail and I'll forward you a copy.
>
>
> Cheers
>
> Muz
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