IAM (AWS Identity and Access Management) enables you to manage access to your Amazon resources and give access to specific resources for users. In my case I wanted to give a customer access to a S3 bucket, but I didn’t want them to see all the other buckets (none of …

Just a quick heads up that there will be some changes in the near future to the Exchange Rate API as we move our servers over to the Amazon cloud. We will try to keep backward compatibility where possible.

To collect all information about our APIs and other services for our developers we’ve decided to create a new site simply called Xavier Media Developers Network. This way we can collect everything for developers who want to use our services at one place, namely developers.xaviermedia.com At the moment we’ve just …

Welcome to a new blog that I created after starting to use the Amazon cloud. I noticed that even if you’ve been using servers, shared web hosting accounts and been doing some PHP and MySQL programming before you start using the Amazon cloud services, it’s not as easy as just …

Solar panels are becoming the latest must-have items and it seems like all the cool kids are getting them. Are you thinking about keeping up with the Joneses? You have probably heard how wonderful solar panels are and you might even feel like you’re going to single-handedly save the planet …

On Monday Altavista was closed by Yahoo! and an era came to an end.

I do not drop a ton of comments, however after looking at some of the remarks on this page %BLOG_TITLE%. I actually do have a couple of questions for you if it’s okay. Could it be just me or do some of these comments look as if they are coming …

On the 3rd of December 1996 Xavier Media® was founded and the first service that was launched was free email at XavierMail.com. Tomorrow Xavier Media is turning sweet 16 and to celebrate that we’re giving away free gifts to all our fans.

Tomorrow it’s the 16th birthday for Xavier Media®. Back in 1996 when I started this company I don’t think it would still be active after 16 years, and also in Internet times it’s a huge amount of time.