Wishlist Art

I was excited about putting the wishlist thumbnails on my weblog and followed all the directions to do so, but instead of thumbnails it provides a boring text link instead.

I must have messed it up somehow.

Hmm, I see the wishlist on your sidebar? Maybe it took a second for the image to pop up?

Anil - this is pretty cool stuff... Will ya'll be making this code avail to MT users as well?

I don't know if we'll do it in exactly this form (MT users tend to be a little picky about exactly how things are presented) but I think between the functionality in BookQueueToo and MT-Amazon, it should be doable in MT with plugins right now.

Sadly, MT-Amazon seems to have become basically useless since late 2003, when Amazon stopped allowing applciations to call their web services more than 1x per second, which MT does during rebuilds of pages with MT-Amazon tags. This is an intermittant problem--people seem to be making BookQueueToo work--but it's annoying.

(Actually, how are you getting around this in Typepad? It would seem that to build a page that listed, say, 40 books would require no less than 40 seconds to build, even if you throttle back the calls to Amazon.)

It would be really nice to have something like Typelists in MT.

I found a solution to my MT-Amazon rebuild problems. Although it's probably too ghetto to use in everyone's case, it works ok in mine. In short, sleep MTAmazon.pm's call to Amazon web services one second per call, and you're fine. Downside, it takes 50 seconds at least to build a page listing 50 books.

More details are in an entry on my site.