The latest version of Amazon’s SimpleDB service is available, and happily it now allows for sorting of query results. This highly-anticipated feature will make the service much more useful.
Sorting still suffers from some limitations: you can only sort by a single attribute, you cannot perform sorting in queries that contain union or not predicates, and [...]
Category Archive for 'Coding'
When developing a web site or application, you may sometimes need to expose the development version running inside your network to the public Internet. This can be necessary to test the communication between your application and an external service, such as PayPal.
I have added an article about my PAWS Marketplace example application to the AWS resources site: PAWS Marketplace - A Rails Marketplace Application in the Cloud.
The PAWS Marketplace is a proof-of-concept Ruby on Rails web application that runs entirely on Amazon Web Services. The application’s web site allows anyone with an Amazon Payments account to [...]
If you need to compile or run Java programs from the command line, it can be a real hassle to identify all the jar libraries the program requires and include them in your classpath.
Here is a short script that will do this work for you on Unix, Linux or Mac systems. It finds all [...]
Amazon has announced beta support for the Copy Object operation in S3. This feature was pre-announced in March.
The copy functionality allows you to copy objects within or between your S3 buckets, and optionally to replace the metadata associated with the object in the process. The single new operation makes it possible to copy, move, [...]
I have added an article about the S3 service’s POST upload feature to the AWS resources site: Browser Uploads to S3 using HTML POST Forms.
The article describes how to create HTML POST forms that allow your web site visitors to upload files into your S3 account using a standard web browser.