Tag: Amazon Web Services

One issue that’s been nagging me as I refactor www.cocktailsrus.com from a RAD site focused on jQuery Mobile to a properly architected site that just happens to use jQuery Mobile is the way I’ve been storing images on the file system. The file system approach is quick and easy and doesn’t clog the database with […]

Having earlier created some tables for our application we will now quickly see how to store some items. Using the AWS SDK it could be done programmatically very simply as follows: Figure 1. Code to populate the Players Table with sample Items. A couple points to reinforced: Not all items need to have the same […]

When I teach Learning Tree’s Introduction to Cloud Computing course I often get questions about how components from different public cloud vendors can be used together in an integrated application. The answer, of course, is: “it all depends on the application.” Here I would like to give a more comprehensive response than that. This will […]

For a while now I’d been meaning to add a ‘contact us’ page to www.cocktailsrus.com and I finally got around to it this week. Sending SMTP email is very straightforward – but you do need to have access to an SMTP server. I suppose I could have just turned on the SMTP component in Windows […]

Recently I’ve been needing to make a few tweaks to the hosting for my cocktailsrus project. It’s hosted on Amazon EC2, and until now I have been logging on to the Amazon console whenever I need to make changes. That’s not a great hardship, as it is (unsurprisingly) a well constructured and user friendly interface. […]