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Fetching multiple SimpleDB items in a single request
The only way to retrieve multiple items at a time, along with their attributes, from Amazon SimpleDB is with the Select operation. Typically, you query for some property of the items which you want to retrieve, not by item name: … Continue reading
The State of SimpleDB Clones
Over the past couple weeks I’ve been updating the DataMapper SimpleDB adapter for DataMapper 0.10, an effort which yesterday culminated in the release of version 1.0.0. Testing against Amazon SimpleDB can be an excruciatingly slow process – not only can … Continue reading
Copying Amazon SimpleDB Domains
Just a quickie today. Amazon SimpleDB has no built-in way to copy a domain – for the purposes of backing it up, for instance, or for populating a development domain with data from the production domain. Using the RightAws tools … Continue reading
ISO8601 Dates in Ruby
ISO8601 is a standard for representing date/time information as a string. ISO8601 dates look like this: 2009-10-26T04:47:09Z. There are a lot of good reasons to store dates in the ISO8601 format. The format is… Unambiguous. There is never any question … Continue reading
