Category: Launch

Over at Ask Metafilter, a questioner asks “When you imagine XSLT transformations happening in your mind’s eye, what does it look like?” This is a very powerful question to ask, because ancient, procedurally oriented developers like me sometimes have trouble following the non-linear, pattern-driven processing that takes place when an XSLT template is applied to […]

By law, every blog must have at least one cute picture of a dog or a cat, and here’s ours! We’d like to introduce Rufus, the newest member of the Amazon Web Services Developer Relations Team. Rufus is a Rhodesian Ridgeback. Today he has been diligently studying and practicing REST. When he’s a bit older […]

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Since the beta launch of the Amazon Mechanical Turk last month, members of our developer community have been working hard to encode their HITS (Human Interface Tasks) into the system. One of the first to make it to this point is the Casting Words site (itself still in beta). Casting Words uses the Mechanical Turk […]