Author: Jeff Barr

The title of this session’s description is, “Gosling, the Father of Java.” What a title! Imagine going to a party and introducing yourself like this: “Hi, I’m James Gosling, the father of Java.” I suppose that would work better as some parties than others, like maybe a LAN party, but I digress. (I should point […]

George opened up his speech with this statement: “I’m interested in how thing begin…what was the first computer?” Anyone? It was at the University of Princeton, per Dyson. You got to love the cathode-ray tube era of computer technology. John Von Neumann wrote the “Theory of Self-Reproducing Automata”. Even before that, Thomas Hobbes wrote about […]

Introduced by Larry Tesler. Interested in beginnings of things, computing has a very clear beginning. Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, John von Neumann. Deserves a lot, but not all, of the credit. Picture, canisters, memory tubes. 32×32 matrix, 1024 bits, actually pixels. Dots on a CRT screen. von Neumann, theory of self-reproducing Automata. Thomas […]

Introduced by Rick Dalzell, site translated into over 30 languages. Started in 1991 at Microsoft, started Fog Creek Software; wrote 2 books. Good quotes about refactoring and XML, bloatware (a mental health problem), Unicode. Talk about the news, Jay Leno style! No royalty in this country, use Jen & Brad instead. Read questions he gets […]

For the next two days (January 19th and 20th, 2005), Amazon.com is hosting a number of well-known technologists and luminaries at a private event for our software development team. We (the Amazon Web Services Developer Relations Team) have special permission to blog each of these speakers in near-real-time, so watch this space throughout the conference […]

The AWS Zone now includes a code generator! The generated code provides a complete, ready-to-compile example of how to make a call to ECS. The generator now supports C#; other languages will be added in the future. Here’s all you have to do to generate some code for the ECS 4.0 ItemSearch operation: Visit the […]

From time to time we get email from developers asking us to install the files needed to allow Flash applications to make use of ECS. The file in question has actually been in place for some time and Flash applications should not have any problems making calls to ECS. For Amazon.com, the file can be […]

The following newsletter was sent to the entire AWS developer community today (sections that were specific to an emailed newsletter have been removed). Most of the information in the newsletters has already been posted to this blog. Amazon Web Services Newsletter #10 – January 13, 2005 Welcome to the latest edition of the Amazon Web […]

A number of well-known technologists and software developers will be coming to Amazon Headquarters Seattle this week to take part in a conference for the software development community within Amazon. While we don’t have the facilities to accommodate anyone from outside of Amazon, we do want to give you the highlights of their talks. Therefore, […]

JAMM Consulting has released ImageTracker, a tool for Amazon merchants. The tool detects missing images in ECS-powered sites and provides for immediate notification. Other features include: Checks browse and detail images Lists products by ASIN and description for easy identification Daily status reports Easy signup Automatic updates when the merchant changes products,  no need for […]