Saturday, April 27, 2024
The latter part of this week was busy. The following list shows some of the things I worked on or happened, starting late Wednesday, 24 April 2024.
- Became a member of Reddit (my profile link).
- Finding, debugging, and correcting a problem with the Yelp application I maintain on the WiredPages Dining & Travel page.
- Unboxing an Amazon order.
- Preparing to update my ZipCode applications to use the Developer API USPS tools because the USPS Web Tools I currently use will retire in January 2025.
- Happy, I received the $50 reward for opening my new Mastercard account.
So many online services and offerings are changing including my advertising resources. Some of these include Google Adsense, Google Ad Manager, and Amazon's Unified Ad Marketplace (UAM) which I use in conjunction with Google Ad Manager for header bidding. I also have various affiliate and marketing partnerships and relationships, however, on qisoftware.com related site areas I use mainly Amazon's UAM header bidding resource.
Because I do all of my own integrations where advertising is concerned, I
have to keep up with new services being offered and sometimes it is a little
overwhelming. I found a forum on Reddit that seems to cover a lot of ground
in this area and I decided to join.
On Thursday, I noticed I had a problem with the Yelp application I maintain on WiredPages. I had errands to run on Friday, and thought I would get to it later in the day. I did not get to it until today, and happy to report the quick fix I decided on is working.
Recently, I ordered several items from Amazon which arrived today. I am very pleased with everything however wanted to talk about two specific items, the new lids for my glasses and a set of shawl scarfs.
The shawl scarfs I ordered were a great price and I am going to find all sorts of ways to use and wear them.
The last item, the USPS Developer API updates. Sometime ago, I developed two
applications using the USPS Web Tools APIs. Both applications are found on
this QiSoftware demonstration products page. As noted from the email shown
below, the USPS Web Tools resource will retire in January 2025.
I set up new applications with the USPS Developer service to allow calls to the new API resources. I do not foresee problems with this changeover, however, as of this date, I have not fully completed the task.
