Category: Developer Tools

I met dozens of entrepreneurs and developers at last night’s Start-Up Seattle event (you can read more about it here, here and here). Among those I met were David Busby of Edoceo.com . Through his company, David provides small and medium-sized businesses with IT solutions powered by open source technologies. David told me that he […]

Earlier today, Tyler Hall of Sitening announced that they were releasing a set of open source PHP interface classes for Amazon S3, Amazon EC2, Amazon SQS, and the Amazon Mechanical Turk. The classes are hosted in Google Code, and can be downloaded here. Tyler also let me know that these classes were used to build […]

WPF/E is Microsoft’s next-generation presentation for creating rich web experiences. Using an XML vocabulary known as XAML, WPF/E supports both cross-browser and desktop applications which run on Windows and on the Mac. If you would like to learn a bit about the use of WPF/E in conjunction with the Amazon E-Commerce Service, you should check […]

Ruby got a new face-lift with the new Rails framework. I was always fascinated with the Ruby language. 25 lines of Java code gets shrunk to 4 lines of equivalent Ruby code plus its more readable. And with Rails, it gets a new kick. It is always impressive to hear people say “I am a […]

Earlier today Jeff barr told me that he uploaded all his photos to amazon S3 using S3Fox Organizer. S3Fox Organizer, developed by Rahul Jonna, is a firefox extension for managing your objects in Amazon S3. We had blogged about it earlier. Motivated by the number of hits he received, Rahul released a new version (v0.3) […]

Hiya, I am Jinesh Varia! This is my first blog post on the AWS blog. Its so cool to be an evangelist, travel around, talk about what cool things people are building and most importantly talk about what cool things YOU can build. Nowadays, Anything and everything that has a high “coolness-factor” gets immediate attention […]

Mamoon Yunus, author of the SOA Testing Blog and advisor to Crosscheck Networks sent me a link to an interesting and relevant How-To document. Using SOAPSonar to Provision Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud covers downloading and installation of a free trial version of Crosscheck’s SOAPSonar product and then shows the steps needed to load the X.509 […]

Tom White dropped me a note to tell me that he had created an implementation of java.util.Map on top of Amazon S3. As Tom notes, “Normally we strive for an implementation that is efficient in terms of speed, however in this case I was very aware of the monetary cost of each method.” Tom took […]