NotesThe framework was pretty helpful for us as a team to optimize (or āforce multiplyā as we say in the Amazon Principal Tenets) the impact of our super awesome Principal Engineer community. We used the role framework to assess Principal Engineer engagement for our most important projects across Amazon S3/Glacier. In some cases, we changed the role of the Principal Engineer.
NotesIf youāre using Amazon S3 to store your websiteās files, and you want some of them to be private, only accessible to certain users, and particularly if youāre using Django, hereās how.
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NotesA collection of random tips for Amazon Web Services (AWS) that I wish I'd been told a few years ago, based on what I've learned by building and deploying various applications on AWS.FeedUnfurl
NotesThis tutorial will show you how to add a Kodi (XBMC) icon shortcut to the main menu. You can now access Kodi (XBMC) from the home screen. No root required. Normally, you would have to go to through the Settings menu to access the app.
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NotesAmazon just released a bunch of new services. My favorite is Lambda. Lambda allows me to deploy simple micro-services without having to setup any servers at all. Everything is hosted in the AWS cloud. Another cool thing about Lambda services is that the default runtime is Node.js!
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NotesIāve just setup this blog using an S3 bucket as the origin server, CloudFront as my CDN, and SSL for under $10. Since there were so many articles to read along the way, Iām gathering up what worked for me all in one place.Unfurl
NotesThe following example shows the complete process for constructing a policy and form to upload a text area. Uploading a text area is useful for submitting user-created content, such as blog postings.Unfurl
NotesThis article shows how WIF can be used to give many users a "Personal File Store" all housed within a single Amazon S3 bucket without the need for any backend infrastructure.Unfurl
NotesWeb identity federation simplifies the development of cloud-backed applications that use public identity providers such as Facebook, Google, or the newly launched Login with Amazon service for authentication.Unfurl
NotesThe General Availability (GA) release of the AWS SDK for Node.js is now available and can be installed through npm as aws-sdk. We have added a number of features since the preview release including bound parameters, streams, IAM roles for EC2 instances, version locking, and proxies.Unfurl
NotesIn fact, many workers even have a public Amazon profile page containing their real name and sometimes even a photo, at http://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/workerID.Unfurl
NotesI just want us all to get along. I want my disparate equipment to talk to each other. I don't want to live in a house where ever component has to be made by the same company otherwise nothing works correctly. I don't want to be stuck using a crappy product because they're the only ones offering service X.FeedEmbedUnfurl
NotesAmazon wipes a woman's Kindle and shuts down her account. This is why I strip the DRM from every Kindle book I buy, and archive each away on my home server. And, also, why I rarely buy Kindle books.FeedEmbedUnfurl
NotesCross-origin resource sharing (CORS) defines a way for client web applications that are loaded in one domain to interact with resources in a different domain. With CORS support in Amazon S3, you can build rich client-side web applications with Amazon S3 and selectively allow cross-origin access to your Amazon S3 resources. Unfurl
Notes when I tried to delete personal documents from the archive I realized that it is too boring to delete them one by one. Then with the help of Aei, created a bookmarklet to delete them page by page. FeedUnfurl
NotesThe Descriptive Camera works a lot like a regular cameraāpoint it at subject and press the shutter button to capture the scene. However, instead of producing an image, this prototype outputs a text description of the scene. Modern digital cameras capture gobs of parsable metadata about photos such as the camera's settings, the location of the photo, the date, and time, but they don't output any information about the content of the photo. The Descriptive Camera only outputs the metadata about the content.Unfurl
NotesAs ebook sales mushroom, the Big Six's insistence on DRM has proven to be a hideous mistake. Rather than reducing piracy[*], it has locked customers in Amazon's walled garden, which in turn increases Amazon's leverage over publishers. And unlike pirated copies (which don't automatically represent lost sales) Amazon is a direct revenue threat because Amazon are have no qualms about squeezing their suppliers ā or trying to poach authors for their "direct" publishing channel by offering initially favourable terms. (Which will doubtless get a lot less favourable once the monopoly is secured ...)FeedUnfurl
NotesIn the name of due diligence, TPM called up UC Davis to make sure we identified the same pepper spray police used on protesters last week. Itās the same brand, though the police use a 7 percent formula. Itās not clear whether this formula matches exactly what the police used.Unfurl
Notess3cmd is a command line tool for uploading, retrieving and managing data in Amazon S3. With s3cmd we can perform other related tasks as well, such as creating buckets, removing buckets, listing objects and synchronizing directory trees.Unfurl
NotesBezos runs through the features that will soon set the tech world ablazeāthe $199 price tag, the easy-to-hold size, the seamless access to Amazonās rich and growing collection of digital media. When the Fire is introduced, analysts will declare it the strongest competitor yet to the iPad. Yet the Fire is not just a rival gadget, but something essentially different. The iPad is the flagship of the post-PC eraāin which the desktop is replaced by lean, portable, gesture-driven tablets. As people will learn when Amazon ships it today, November 14, the Fire is an emblem of a post-web world, in which our devices are simply a means for us to directly connect with the goodies in someoneās data center.Unfurl
NotesFile Conveyor is a daemon written in Python to detect, process and sync files.
Designed to sync files to CDNs. Amazon S3 & CloudFront and Rackspace Cloud Files, as well as any Origin Pull CDN or FTP Push CDN are supported.Unfurl
Notes"This is a instruction guide on how to modify the Synology Server to backup files to Amazon's S3 service, an online storage space, offered by Amazon.com<br />
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Notes"If I finished putting my archives on S3 it would cost me well over $200 a month. Iām not even going to get into much deep math here because all I gotta tell you is that there are 1 TB USB 2 External drives on Amazon for under $150. So I can buy a new TB every MONTH, copy a backup to it and ship it offsite and let it sit and itās cheaper than S3"Unfurl
Notes"The Ubuntu and Debian EC2 images published on http://alestic.com allow you to send in a startup script using the EC2 user-data parameter when you run a new instance. This functionality is useful for automating the installation and configuration of software on EC2 instances."FeedUnfurl
Notes"This project allows you to host a "private instance of S3" on top of Google's infrastructure (big table, etc), leveraging existing client S3 libraries and applications - no need to reinvent the wheel."Unfurl
Notes"Amazon EC2 Instances currently cost $0.10 USD per hour to run plus bandwidth charges (which for standard web browsing will be negligent). This gives Amazon EC2 the potential to be an incredibly cheap on-demand proxy server. Finally you only pay for what you use rather than paying an extortionate monthly rate."Unfurl
NotesDamn - I had this idea for use on my own work, if I ever got around to self-publishing. "Amazon's newly-patented System and Method for Marking Content, which calls for 'programmatically substituting synonyms into distributed text content,' including 'books, short stories, product reviews, book or movie reviews, news articles, editorial articles, technical papers, scholastic papers, and so on' in an effort to uniquely identify customers who redistribute material. "Unfurl
Notes"This is ugly for all kinds of reasons. Amazon says that this sort of thing is ārare,ā but that it can happen at all is unsettling; weāve been taught to believe that e-books are, you know, just like books, only better. Already, weāve learned that theyāre not really like books, in that once weāre finished reading them, we canāt resell or even donate them. But now we learn that all sales may not even be final. "Unfurl
Notes"Leslie Michael Orchard is a hacker, tinkerer, and creative technologist working in the Ann Arbor / Detroit, MI area. He lives with two spotted Ocicats, two dwarf bunnies, and a very patient and understanding wife. On rare occasions when spare time comes in copious amounts, he plays around with odd bits of code and writing, sharing them on his Web site named 0xDECAFBAD (http://decafbad.com/)."Unfurl
Notes"Amazon removed its customer-based reporting of adult books yesterday. I guess my game is up! Here's a nice piece I like to call "how to cause moral outrage from the entire Internet in ten lines of code"."Unfurl
NotesI own these, but I keep forgetting what they're called. "With the Sony MDR-EX85LP you can shut out the distractions of the world with your favorite audio. These super-light earbuds give you high performance sound quality and help you enjoy your songs everywhere you go. The premium sound delivered by a 13.5mm driver combines with a soft silicon-rubber compound for great audio and hours of comfortable wearing. The closed acoustic structure blocks out most external noise, for a superior listening experience and the clearest sound reproduction possible. Whether you're going to work or class, walking to the shops or working out at the gym, you'll get stunningly rich sound quality. "Unfurl
Notes"Elastic Utility Computing Architecture for Linking Your Programs To Useful Systems - is an open-source software infrastructure for implementing "cloud computing" on clusters. The current interface to EUCALYPTUS is compatible with Amazon's EC2 interface, but the infrastructure is designed to support multiple client-side interfaces. EUCALYPTUS is implemented using commonly available Linux tools and basic Web-service technologies making it easy to install and maintain"Unfurl
Notes"You should now have an operational laconica instance using the default template. The webserver is apache2. Jabber provided by ejabberd and electronic mail courtesy of sendmail. There is also a script provided that will back up your database to s3."Unfurl
Notes"Bid designed to keep Yahoo from deal with Amazon.com, report says." Now, there's a merger I wouldn't absolutely hate, given Amazon's developer resourcesUnfurl
Notes"I saw in the corner of my eye my faithful notebook, which now lay on the ground. Once unmarred, I saw now the small mark which I had made with the devil's own pen"Unfurl
Notes"When someone buys a book, they are also buying the right to resell that book, to loan it out, or to even give it away if they want. Everyone understands this."Unfurl
Notes"In a recent office action, the USPTO has rejected the claims of the Amazon.com one-click patent following the re-examination request that I filed on 16 February 2006. "Unfurl
AWS Tips I Wish I'd Known Before I Started - W(e)blinks
Add Kodi (XBMC) Icon to Fire TV's Home Screen | Sideload Fire TV
The Tapir's Tale: Lambda, Javascript Micro-Services on AWS
Web Identity Federation with Mobile Applications : Articles & Tutorials : Amazon Web Services
I Donāt Want To Be Part of Your Fucking Ecosystem by Terence Eden has a Blog
Outlawed by Amazon DRM Ā« Martin Bekkelund
Hacks Bookmarklet to delete archived personal documents quickly - MobileRead Forums
Introducing Syllabus, Vox Media's S3-powered liveblog platform | Vox Product
Descriptive Camera
Cutting their own throats - Charlie's Diary
Amazon's Kindle Cloud Reader storms into Firefox on an HTML5 chariot -- Engadget
baltic-avenue - Project Hosting on Google Code
Eucalyptus
Amazon.com - Wish List