Amazon Germany, Kindle Daily Deals / Kindle-Deal des Tages RSS feed (and Android App)

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After the US, UK, Italy, Spain & France versions, I created an Android Application to monitor the Amazon.de Kindle Deal of the Day / Kindle-Deal des Tages and a:

RSS feed for Amazon.de Kindle-Deal des Tages

Exporting DynamoDB data to CSV

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Another itch I needed to scratch. I needed the basic ability to export data from (an Amazon Web Services noSQL store:) DynamoDB to CSV. I first built a solution for my specific issue (which included some transformations) and then decided it’d be worth building something more generic for people. While you can do this using AWS Pipeline, EMR and S3, I found it immensely complicated for such a simple task.

You can find my solution, DynamoDBtoCSV on github

AWS DynamoDBtoCSV

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typically, to use you’d run:

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AWS Cloudwatch to Graphite (cloudwatch2graphite)

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Like many, we gather a lot of our system information (business and technology) into Graphite. One thing we were missing was some of the AWS services metrics that you’d typically use Cloudwatch for. So I wrote a little utility in node.js that does exactly that. You’d typically run this in a cron and throw the output into Graphite every 10 minutes or whatever.

You’ll find the application here: https://github.com/edasque/cloudwatch2graphite

Here is the documentation as it stands:
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Some great Twitter Bootstrap 2.x resources [Updated]

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New and of interest: Twitter Bootstrap 2.2.0/

Previously, previously:

Getting an Oauth2 token for GitHub, command line

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If you’re looking to use the GitHub API outside a web application, you’ll need to generate an OAuth 2 token. GitHub provides a good way to add a non web app to your account. It’s done with a curl, command-line:

            curl https://api.github.com/authorizations \
            --user "myuser" \
            --data '{"scopes":["user"],"note":"GitHub Stars to Bookmarks"}'

which will ask you for your password and return a json document which will contain your token.

Your scopes selection might be different from mine, refer to this document to chose them.

You can check that this process went well by hitting: https://api.github.com/user/watched?access_token=YOUR_TOKEN_HERE . You’ll see the application authorizations on https://github.com/settings/applications.

I am using this in my githubfav2pinboard application.