erlang is a functional language with strong support for concurrency and distribution. it is quite trivial to start erlang on multiple hosts and connect them. however you have to write custom scripts to start these nodes. for example on a set of local machines ssh with publicprivate keys can be used to start cluster of nodes. if you dont have the computing environment you can lease your servers usi...
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this is a simple tutorial on how to get prices from amazon with their web services sdk. first you need an amazon sdk account hop on over here if you havent gotten one already. more......
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i recently played with building a c media player with builtin music library and wanted it to show album covers like windows media player 11 does. it proved quite difficult because there is no free service for downloads of album covers as far as i know. then i stumbled upon a coding4fun article that used the amazon web service for retrieval of book covers and thought it might al...
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amazon web services has recently made available a beta service called the amazon elastic compute cloud which allows for rapid deployment of virtual servers. as some of the documentation was wrong and some of the resource materials were incomplete we thought that it might be useful to create a walkthrough for the entire process of developing server images transferring them to amazons simple storag...
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this email confirms that your latest billing statement is available on the aws web site. your account will be charged the following subtotal 0.01 plus applicable taxes please see the account activity area of the aws web site for detailed account information http awsportal. amazon.com gpawsdevel operaccoun tindex.htm lactionact ivitysumma ry tha...
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the php code sample below demonstrates how you can get a webistes alexa traffic rank with php and the amazon web services. youll need a secret access key and an aws access key id which can be obtained from amazon web services. url......
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