Yesterday I mentioned about doing some sort of web services client / server type thing for OverStock.com datafeed sites.

I set up a subdomain to contain the database stuff and from there I set up an XML-RPC server to read the DB and forward it to the client per request.

The system works nicely. Just been doing testing so far, next step is to set up some actual sites that use the system.

It’s set up in a way that means that I could technically use the site as a gateway between overstock affiliates and myself if I wanted to. Hmmm, might be worth considering down the road since I don’t store the affiliate IDs on the server side, only on the client side.

Wonder if that is against their regulations to have an XML-RPC gateway set up and sell access to it to other affiliates?

Ok, time to shut my mouth with these ideas.

So, a couple weeks ago, I wrote about a new XML-RPC system I wrote that lets me set up links pages easily on my sites.

I’ve now got all my sites properly set up with the links client and they are working nicely. It’s a pretty cool piece of technology that I plan to play with some more later. Maybe set it to return links in a random order or something like that.

Ok, so I haven’t posted much since the new shift started 14 days ago. It took some getting used to, but now I have gotten used to it.

Been busy with various scripting projects lately and also trying some new stuff.

I wrote an XML-RPC server/client system that I store all my sites in, then when I want to display links on one page, I simply call the XML-RPC client and have it return sites under the category I am in. This helps keep all my shopping sites current, as well as all my other sites current.

Also been busy on a new CMS which I’ll be using to replace the existing CMS on freekrai.net very shortly.

Basically, been busy.