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We have just published a new tutorial document, “Chained Requests Using XSLT.” The technique illustrated in this document allows you to execute a sequence of AWS requests under the control of a script written in XSLT. Excerpt: This tutorial walks through creating a simple two-page web site that uses chained requests in XSLT to display […]

Here‘s another ECS scratchpad, this one with a Japanese-language user interface. There’s also a link to the source code behind the page.

We have updated the list of AWS Articles and Tutorials. Many of these articles are based on ECS 4.0; this could be a great way for you to learn what you need to know in order to upgrade your application to the newest version. Please send us email if you have suggestions for this page.

Find24x7.com is powered by the new Alexa Web Information Service. The site includes a browse hierarchy based on the AWIS Browse Category function, along with a search engine powered by the AWIS Web Search function, and advanced “whois” functionality powered by the URL Info function. The developer behind this site also built www.simplest-shop.com, This site […]

Here are some good articles on REST: How to Create a REST Protocol Building Web Services the REST Way Of course, no mention of REST would be complete without a link to Roy Fielding’s original thesis, where the term originated. Modified 3/10/2021 – In an effort to ensure a great experience, expired links in this […]

In case you need to know even more about what’s going on around Amazon, check out these blogs: All Things Distributed – Werner Vogels (Amazon’s Director of Systems Research)  talks about building scalable and robust distributed systems. Amazon Web – The AWS blog for Japanese speakers. Some material is translated from this blog, but much […]

Riaan (author of Amazon Messenger) blogged about his experiences with ECS. It is great to know that our efforts are appreciated, and that we are meeting the needs of developers with our developer program. Thanks, Riaan!

The Business::ISBN Perl package should be useful to developers building ECS-powered applications (courtesy of brian d foy, who prefers not to capitalize his name). This package provides methods to create and validate ISBNs, and to extract data within the ISBN, including the publisher code and country code. It can also convert the ISBN to an […]