Contemplating the brave new present
I have updated my small java-xmlbuilder project with some nice new features.
First, here’s a reminder of what this project does:
XML Builder is a utility that creates simple XML documents using relatively sparse Java code.
It is intended to allow for quick and painless creation of XML documents where you might otherwise be tempted to use concatenated [...]
I am reading the book Xcode 3 Unleashed to get to grips with Apple’s Xcode IDE.
While configuring a local Subversion code repository I came across a couple of problems that had non-obvious solutions.
After creating an SVN repository in a local directory using the
svnadmin create
command, Xcode 3.1 refused to recognise the repo and complained [...]
The latest version of JetS3t (jet-set), my Java library for Amazon’s Simple Storage Service, is now publicly available.
Visit the JetS3t web site to download version 0.7.0, to run the latest online applications, or to read the updated documentation.
Version 0.7.0 includes a number of bug fixes and support for some of the newest features of Amazon [...]
I have long been irked by the difficulty of creating simple XML documents in Java code. While Java has excellent support for handling XML in general, if you just need to whip up a quick document — say, to interact with a web service API — you can quickly get lost in a messy quagmire [...]
Amazon has added a new service to their arsenal. CloudFront is a content delivery service that works closely with S3 to make public objects in your account available through a distribution network with edge locations in the US, Europe and Asia.
CloudFront uses two techniques to deliver your data quickly. It caches S3 objects in the [...]
A couple of weeks ago, a new API operation was added to Amazon’s SimpleDB service: QueryWithAttributes. This operation makes it possible to retrieve all the attribute data for SimpleDB items that match a query. Previously, to retrieve item attributes it was necessary to perform a Query request, then perform follow-up GetAttributes requests for each result [...]