I have just uploaded python-cloudfiles to pypi available here This make things easy to add as a dependence of your project like you can have something like this in your setup.py : requirements = ['python-cloudfiles'] and it will automatically download it as part of the dependence with easy_install or pip. cool kids on latest debian/ubuntu can do stuff like this (from python-stdeb package) : pypi-install python-cloudfiles which would automatically download the tarball from pypi and install it as a packages (like the way it should be for prod machine!) ...

Fireuploader is a Firefox addon that gives you a nice GUI to upload files via your firefox browser. I have made a special version of the extensions to make it works with the RackSpace Cloud UK. Install the addon from here : http://www.chmouel.com/pub/firefox_universal_uploader__fireuploader_-0.4.5-fx+mz+ukcf.xpi Allow the website by clicking Allow in the yellow bar on the top as seen in this screenshot : Click on Install Now and restart Firefox. ...

One of the last library I didn’t documented in my earlier post was php-cloudfiles. You need to have at least the version 1.7.6 released to have support to different auth_server and when you have that you can do it like this to get access to cloud files via the library : <?php require_once("cloudfiles.php"); # Allow override by environment variable $USER = "MY_API_USERNAME"; $API_KEY = "MY_API_KEY"; $auth = new CF_Authentication($USER, $API_KEY, NULL, UK_AUTHURL); $auth->authenticate(); ?>

It seems that my post about using duplicity to backup your data on Rackspace CloudFiles got popular and people may be interested to use with the newly (Beta) released Rackspace Cloud UK. You would just need to have a environnement exported at the top of your backup script like this : export CLOUDFILES_AUTHURL=https://lon.auth.api.rackspacecloud.com/v1.0 and it will use the UK auth server (the same goes for OpenStack auth server if you have your own Swift install). ...

If you are wondering howto use a graphical client like Cyberduck to access the Rackspace Cloud UK this is how you do it. We are going to use the Swift OpenStack support in Cyberduck to access the UK CloudFiles instance. You first Open Cyberduck and Click on open connection : In the Menu choose Swift (OpenStack Object Storage) and in Server field you specify : lon.auth.api.rackspacecloud.com and enter your Username and Api Key (in Password field) : ...

Rackspace just released the public beta for the UK version of Rackspace Cloud. The UK Rackspace Cloud doesn’t have the same auth server as the US Cloud so there is a few change you need to do to support the UK Rackspace Cloud. This is the same way Amazon has different zone for EC2 we have now different geographical zone between the US and now the UK. If you access directly, you just need to adjust the Auth URL in your code to go to : ...

Lately I had to spawn some cloud servers and automatically customise them. I have used the python-cloudservers library and installed it automatically with pypi (works for Debian/Ubuntu you may want to check for other distros): pypi-install python-cloudservers From there writing the script was pretty straight forward, I needed to know what type of CloudServers I wanted which in my case the smallest was good enough which is number 1 for me. ...

I don’t have to use much of the Windows Operating System except when I have to synchronize my Garmin GPS to use the excellent SportsTrack software for my fitness training. I wanted to get safe and backup my SportsTrack ’logbook’ directly to Rackspace Cloud Files; while this is easy to do from Linux using some other script I made but I haven’t had anything at hand for Windows without having to install bunch of Unix tools. ...

All my music players (Spotify, XBMC, Rythmbox etc…) are scrobbling over lastfm but not all of them display song lyrics properly so I came up with a quick Google AppEngine app that grab the latest or current song scrobbled over last.fm and display its lyrics. No fancy HTML or javascript just the lyrics displayed for your enjoyment. This is available here : http://getlastlastfmlyrics.appspot.com/ for the scripter around you can just get (via curl or other) : ...

This post is literally to test the embedding track feature from Garmin Connect ….. This is a easy bike ride, it start from Ealing to to Decathlon in Canada water and stop in Parsons-Green on my way back to watch Liverpool-Arsenal at mates place before coming back home, my pace was kind of slow since I have a broken thumb and I am trying to respect London traffic now and stop at traffic lights ;-) ...