Could you code a clean, usable web widget using the eBay API.
Required functionality
• The widget will display a user’s eBay items for sale (and possibly some other stuff) on their blog or homepage, using a script tag that renders the widget’s content.
• Users will add the widget to their pages using Snipperoo’s neat widget management system.
• The widget will fetch the data it needs via the eBay API.
• We want you to write both the client-side javascript responsible for displaying the items, and the server-side code that communicates with the eBay API and that is ultimately responsible for the content shown via the script tag.
• The server-side code can be either PHP5 or Rails. Snipperoo will host this code.
• We expect this development to take 2 or 3 days.
• eBay don’t have a widget that displays items for sale at the moment but they’ve asked us to build this and make it available to the world as an experiment.
Drop me a line (steve@snipperoo.com) if you’d like to have a go. Please let me know your price for the job.
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