Here is a small script I’m using to backup files to S3. Actually it implements all the basic operations you need for S3 (bucket creation, listing, file upload and download).
It’s rather trivial but I was able to keep it so simple, thanks to it’s use of the Boto python library to do all of the AWS heavywork. Anyhow I think it may be useful.
A few examples:
Here is the code:
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This is so amusing: buttons is a blind camera, or better a camera that doesn’t make photos but rather that shows you the photos that other people have taken in the very same moment.
It pushes to the limit the act of taking photos to remeber moments, it just records the time and day, and connects your memory of that moment with what someone else (somewhere else) were experiencing.
technorati tags:art, memory, photography
My article Tips for Optimizing Rails on Oracle has been published on the Oracle Technology Network site! I can’t say how much i liked working on this.
I tried to synthesize in one place all that needs to be known to make the best from the two technologies and explained all of the tips in oracle-specific terms.
Rails on Oracle comes out as a good performer, but my only regret is that i did not have time to investigate (and maybe contribute back to the community) on adding proper bind variables support to ActiveRecord, which would have been the definitive optimization, but I see that the subject is being actively discussed on the core developers ML, so we may get there soon ;)
On the side, for those interested, I made “a Rails “version” of the HR schema that has been modified to directly comply with the common Rail conventions”
I hope that what i wrote there makes sense and I’d love to hear what you think!
technorati tags:oracle, xe, ruby, rubyonrails, database
I got a nice easter present yesterday: The Typer got reviewed on the Rails App Week by Darren at The Web2.0 Show
They nailed it right: it’s simple by purpose, and i’d dare to say that it has been a big experiment for me in building a clean and simple interface that makes sense for the application.
Posts about thetyper have been very few in the last months, but this is not because the application itself was abandoned, but rather because the typer achieved its goals, and was good enough for my own use.
Some of the techniques i learned while developing it have been useful for me and will spark in various projects that I’m doing as a freelance. Moreover I’m planning some improvements to the interface which will go towards further reducing modality of the interface and improving keyboard commands.
I hope that more people will use it and find it useful, and I’ll be listening to their suggestions to improve it (if you wish you can contact me at luca (at) thetyper.com ).
technorati tags:thetyper, rails, theweb20show