During the last couple of years, a series of architectural patterns for web design software have consolidated and become popular through frameworks , which facilitate the development and maintenance of these systems. Simultaneously, servers had increased accessibility and reduced costs. Creating a web project became a far easier, faster and cheaper thing to do. However, for the project to succeed, there is still one obstacle that is not easy to overcome: scalability.

boo-box has successfully conquered this obstacle and currently has its infrastructure set up in layers capable of being interwoven horizontally, and that are sufficiently robust to serve thousands of requests per minute. Throughout this post we will present some of the practices currently in use to guarantee a good performance from Communications Systems for Social Media such as Ruby, MERB, CouchDB, Thin, Nginx, Beanstalkd.

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Boo-box has received the 100% Clean seal from the website Softpedia.

Softpedia is an online library that contains in its archives over 70,000 free software’s. All the library’s software’s are periodically tested and analyzed to guarantee the quality of their code.

Softpedia’s 100% Clean seal is just one more guarantee that the boo-box plugin for firefox does not contain viruses, malware or adware, and can be installed in any computer, without restrictions.

To earn this seal we performed important updates to our tagging-tool, such as:

a. improving security
b. correcting bugs
c. checking compatibility with Firefox 3

boo-box always aims to improve the quality of the service it renders, and this seal is a just reward for the excellent wok done by the ninjas!

Hi! My name is Dirceu and as a boo-box ninja I’ve come to announce some big news:

It is now possible to use more than one tag in our product search system. This was already possible with the widget on the fixed list, but now the function is available both in the virtual shopping window and directly through the API. The tags need to be separated by commas, for example:

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The boo-box tool was born from a mix of Web Services and ecommerce APIs, links with affiliate codes in HTML, libraries, frameworks and plugins in free code. Without these open source tools we would not have been able to create applications that have been helping over 1,000 content originators to earn more (and more objectively) with what they publish on the web.

In November 2007 we released boo-api, which allows developers to use our infrastructure to search for offers in any of the ecommerce retailers with which we are integrated. Our intention is to develop, for the community, knowledge that we gained using their tools.

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Hi, I am Wendely Leal, a ninja-developer from boo-box, and it’s a pleasure to announce that now we have a JSON API.

This is a common and modern way to transport data between web applications. With JSONP you can do cross-domain requests through JavaScript.

The access is almost the same way as our XML API (check out the release post):

Examples:

To use it with jQuery, put “/jsonp:=?” at the end of the URI. Example:

See a practical example on http://boo-box.com/labs/jsonp/.

Have fun, and if you have any trouble or suggestions, contact-us by tech@boo-box.com.

boo-box, which already works with Amazon.com for new and used products and eBay for auction offers, is glad to announce its integration with Shopping.com. This will allow you to place product offers with price comparison inside your content.

The difference between Shooping.com Partner Program and the Amazon/eBay affiliate market programs is that Shopping.com pays when you generate traffic for an e-commerce website, while Amazon and eBay pay you when the product you recommended is sold.

It is simple to do it. First you should apply for Shopping.com Partner Program and wait until they accept your subscription; then choose Shopping.com on our add-on; put your user ID and you are ready to start recommending products with price comparison from Shooping.com.

For Brazilian users we have two major e-commerce stores: Americanas.com and Submarino. Check-out our Portuguese blog for more info.

Have fun with your boo-box ;)