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Ruby/AWS 0.4.0 Released
It’s been pouring with rain here all day, so I seized the opportunity to knock out a quick release of Ruby/AWS. Version 0.4.0 allows the user to retrieve existing shopping-carts from AWS using the new Amazon::AWS::ShoppingCart::Cart#cart_get method. I hadn’t originally … Continue reading
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Ruby/AWS 0.3.3 Released
It’s only been a week since the release of Ruby/AWS 0.3.2, but 0.3.3 is here already. Actually, there are almost no visible changes for the user. The only development of note is that the library is now available as a … Continue reading
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E90 and untrusted certificates pt. II
I wrote last year how the Nokia Communicator E90 telephone had no ability to permanently accept an untrusted (e.g. self-signed) certificate when picking up e-mail over SSL. This omission required the user to go through the rigmarole of setting up … Continue reading
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Gigabit Ethernet
With the recent arrival of our truly excellent ReadyNAS NV+ box, the time had come to upgrade the house’s internal network to gigabit Ethernet, i.e. 1000 Mbps instead of 100 Mbps. The house’s internal cabling is all CAT5e, so all … Continue reading
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Ruby/AWS 0.3.2 Released
Ruby/AWS 0.3.2 has been released. This release addresses (de)serialisation issues with Marshal and YAML, caused by the inability of objects spawned from dynamically defined classes to be reinstantiated at load-time.
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