I've always found shopping at Amazon a bit of a cumbersome experience. The pages seem a little cluttered and when choosing between products there's lots of back-and-forth as you switch between search results and product detail.

So I thought I'd make use of the Amazon Product Advertising API and write my own interface. The result is That Big Shop¹. It's not old browser or search engine friendly but it does, I think, have a more responsive feel to it than the standard Amazon interface.

To create the site, I choose to use the Cappuccino framework and I'm glad I did. The painful part of writing web applications is getting them to look and work the same across browsers. With Cappuccino I didn't need to worry about that; as long as I coded to the framework API, Cappuccino would take care of rendering what I wanted consistently across browsers.