Someone recently asked me if I knew of a web based uploader that returned the Akamai CDN URL of the file. I looked around and found this site but it wasn’t quite what was wanted. I decided to edit the code in the example from that site and came up with this.
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Category Archives: real life
Uploading to Rackspace Cloud Files with PHP
Posted by robert
on August 30, 2011
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Using Rackspace DNSaaS with curl (part 1)
Posted by robert
on July 8, 2011
2 comments | 774 views
With the release of Rackspace DNSaaS (blog post here), I thought I would put together some examples of using curl with the service. With this release, you now have programmatic access to DNS via the API where you can set TTLs, create and delete various record types, and create and delete domains.
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Why work for Rackspace?
Posted by robert
on March 10, 2011
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This is a post I originally wrote for my employer, Rackspace Hosting. You can find it here.
Lately, I’ve had several friends approach me about working at Rackspace. When I ask them why they want to work here, they seem surprised that I would ask.
“Why wouldn’t I?” is the response I most often hear. When they say that I reply with:
Funny Conversation
Posted by robert
on July 31, 2008
2 comments | 219 views
Yesterday someone sent me an email that was written in Spanish and made some references to me being his grandfather. For some reason, I usually get emails meant for other people to my Gmail account. They are usually meant for “Richard Collazo” or “Roger Collazo” or some other “Robert Collazo”. I usually just ignore them and if I keep getting email for that person, I politely respond and say that I’m not the droid they’re looking for and they go on their merry way.
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