I wanted to start using the Amazon Simple Notification Service (http://aws.amazon.com/sns/), but I have not found any PHP libraries that I can use to access the service. I would rather not create my own library, I wanted to see if anybody has used any PHP libraries for the SNS service, and if they would recommend any. ...
I have created a small game in Java and I would like to add the ability for a player to publish his highscores online. I'm willing to write the server software myself (it's easy these days with Ruby Mongrel, or even C++). I just need to have some sort hosting. One solution that immediately comes to mind is Amazon EC2. But that's kind of...
Unless I'm missing something, it seems that none of the APIs I've looked at will tell you how many objects are in an S3 bucket / folder(prefix). Is there any way to get a count? ...
I'm using Amazon S3 to put the mp3 file then allow our site visitor to download the mp3 from Amazon AWS. I use S3Fox to manage the file, everything seems working fine until recently we got many complaints from visitor that the mp3 was streamed via the browser instead of displaying browser save dialog. I try for some mp3 and notice that f...
I have a HIT on Mechanical Turk that requires a file upload of an MP3 file. <h2>Upload your file here</h2> <input type="file" name="audiofile" /> <input type="submit" /> When I review the results from my HIT, mechanical turk will give me the filename but no upload path or link to download the file. How can I download the file that ...
I am using the Amazon and eBay API via PHP5 and Curl to get product listings for a client. When I ask the API to give me a description or a category for a product, I'm sometimes getting something that looks like this: Estée Lauder When I go look at the XML download from the API, it shows this entry inside: <categoryName>Estée Laude...
I want to create an mturk HIT that has a URL like so: www.example.com?source=worker_id where worker_id is the worker's ID code. I'm initially going to create these from the mturk web UI, then once I get it working right, from PHP. But I can't figure out how to get at the worker's ID from the modified-HTML syntax of an mturk HIT. ...
I'm struggling with the final part of getting my first bit of code working with the AWS - I have got this far, I attached the web reference in VS and this have this amazon.AWSECommerceService service = new amazon.AWSECommerceService(); // prepare an ItemSearch request amazon.ItemSearchRequest request = new amazon.ItemSearchRequest(); r...
I'm posting search relevance evaluation task. Basically I'll provide a query and a bunch of URLs which may or may not be relevant. Turkers need point out which ones are relevant and which ones are not. To not to bother Turkers to click on the url and comme back again,I've put "iframe"s in the HIT. But since there are 25 urls in a HIT, i...
Hi All, I have the following requirement. I have with me a database containing the contact and address details of at least 2000 members of my school alumni organization. We want to store all that information in a relation model so that This data can be created and edited on demand. This data is always backed up and should be simple to...
I'm using a simple example from Amazon documentation for ItemSearch and I get a strange error: "The remote server returned an unexpected response: (400) Bad Request." This is the code: public static void Main() { //Remember to create an instance of the amazon service, including you Access ID. AWSEComme...
I've found instructions to point my domain's CNAME to Amazon's CloudFront service but ideally I would like to point the root name (A record name). For example, foo.com instead of www.foo.com. Is this possible? ...
i am developing a ruby on rails (2.3.8) application with data storage amazon simpledb. i am using the aws-sdb gem in the version aws-sdb (0.3.1) there are a few bugs, but the problems are outlined in the comments of this tutorial from amazon: http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry.jspa?externalID=1242 i am wondering if it ...
I'm working on a Facebook app for book sharing, reviewing, and recommendations. I've scoured the web, searched Google using every search phrase I could think of, but I could not find any tutorials on how to access the Amazon.com API for book information. I signed up for an AWS account, but even the tutorials on their website didn't help...
</slitting wrists in anger> I've spent hours trying to find a decent up-to-date Java library for Amazon Products API (a.k.a. 100 other names... WHY do you keep changing it, Amazon?). Everything is either very outdated and doesn't work, or is overly complicated with about 100 external JARs and is impossible to configure. Then I downloa...
I need to run a web crawler and I want to do it from EC2 because I want the HTTP requests to come from different IP ranges so I don't get blocked. So I thought distributing this on EC2 instances might help, but I can't find any information about what the outbound IP range will be. I don't want to go to the trouble of figuring out the e...
I am considering the following a "complex" query, given the fact that simpledb is a really simple data storage: I am trying to query a aws-sdb domain with an OR query. using ruby, rails (2) and ActiveResource. I am using the code examples from http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry.jspa?externalID=1242 (which don't show Or ...
i am using amazon simpledb with the aws_sdb gem and aws-sdb proxy as outlined in a documentation from amazon with ruby on rails and a local aws proxy that runs on webrick (providing a bridge with ActiveResource). see http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry.jspa?externalID=1242 i am wondering if the aws-sdb-proxy (webrick!)...
I need to redesign my server solution for usage as software-as-a-service. Currently the user has to install the Manager service on one machine in the LAN and one or more Processor service instances on other machines. He then puts files to process into a select folder, the Manager service fetches the files, sends them to Processor instan...
I am in Europe. How do I set the Region to EU (ireland) when using AmazonS3Client to copy files? ...