Just a little Cooqy

After Cooqy was submitted for the eBay Developer Challenge ‘06, I did minor tweaking in February, primarily building some of the extended search functionality that previously existed in AuctionVision. Cooqy’s design was done ad-hoc, so it was very, very rough at this point in time. Cooqy continued to run on my home PC […]

I started to code Cooqy the week of Christmas 2005. OpenLaszlo proved to be unusually productive…a little code went a long, long way. I initially had difficulty communicating with eBay’s web services. I never could get OpenLaszlo’s built-in SOAP to work against eBay, so I abandoned that and used Java XML-RPC from the Tomcat server.
Cooqy […]

Before beginning a line of code of what was to become Cooqy, I had to pick a name for the “thing” I was about to create. I remember agonizing over the name for a full week due to finding an available dot-com name. It truly is a matter of naming your service based […]

Wow, my first post. My first blog. And to think I’ve been on this revolving rock for roughly 14,500 spins without having created a blog yet…what have I’ve been doing with myself?
Actually, I have been very busy for the last year creating Cooqy. Now I find myself sort of regretting that […]