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S3Ajax: creating buckets and uploading keys

Continuing on Mashup Guide :: listing keys with S3Ajax, here I present a Chickenfoot script to create a bucket and upload a file (specifically, it creates a bucket by the name of raymondyeetest and uploads a file (D:\Document\PersonalInfoRemixBook\examples\ch16\Exported Items.rdf from my WinXP machine) to the key exportitems.rdf in the bucket: include("D:\\document\\JavaScriptLib\\sha1.js"); include("D:\\document\\JavaScriptLib\\S3Ajax.js"); var AWSAccessKeyId = […]

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2008 12 17 raymond.yee AJAX
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listing keys with S3Ajax

In a previous post (learning how to use S3Ajax to access Amazon S3), I show how to use Chickenfoot and S3Ajax to list S3 buckets. Here is a slight elaboration of the code to list the keys within buckets (in addition to the buckets): include("D:\\document\\JavaScriptLib\\sha1.js"); include("D:\\document\\JavaScriptLib\\S3Ajax.js"); var AWSAccessKeyId = "[AWSAccessKeyId]"; var AWSSecretAccessKey = "[AWSSecretAccessKey]"; S3Ajax.DEBUG […]

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learning how to use S3Ajax to access Amazon S3

In a previous post ( Amazon S3 signature calculation in JavaScript), I show how to calculate using JavaScript a "signature" need to access Amazon S3. In this post, I show a code snippet for using Leslie Michael Orchard's S3Ajax, which I'm evaluating for using to connect Zotero with Amazon S3. (Like the code from my previous […]

2008 11 25 raymond.yee AJAX
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Amazon S3 signature calculation in JavaScript

On pp. 478-479 of Chapter 16 of my mashup book on online storage APIs, I show how to how to reproduce the calculation of an API signature in Amazon S3 in Python and PHP. Recently, because I now want to access S3 from within the browser, I have figured out how to do the same […]

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2008 11 25 raymond.yee AJAX
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Amazon startup challenge

It's tempting to enter an idea into the Amazon.com: Startup Challenge. Alas I don't have enough time to flesh the idea sufficiently to become a serious contender.  I've long wanted to pull together some deep personal computational infrastructure by combining S3 and EC2 and SQS — but writing up those ideas will have to wait.

2007 10 28 raymond.yee Amazon Comments (0)

Chapter 16: What services to cover?

I've been captivated by the potential of Amazon S3 (Amazon's "Simple Storage Service"), which is described in the following way: Amazon S3 provides a simple web services interface that can be used to store and retrieve any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web. It gives any developer access to the […]

2007 05 23 raymond.yee Chapter 16
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