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* [http://people.mozilla.org/~rhelmer/mockups/tinderbox/ajax.html An example page using the data]
* [http://mavra.perilith.com/~luser/tboxtest.html Another example page using the data]. (Requires a [http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/ recent Firefox 3 build]
== Buildbot and EC2 ==
[http://buildbot.net/trac The BuildBot] is software for automatically building and testing other software. [http://aws.amazon.com/ec2 EC2] is Amazon's "Elastic Compute Cloud", a service that lets you run Virtual Machines on Amazon's computing grid using a web API. It would be awesome if BuildBot had an EC2 module, and could spawn Virtual Machines on-demand to perform tasks. Conveniently, BuildBot is written in Python, and there's [http://code.google.com/p/boto/ a Python library for interfacing with EC2].
References: [http://jimmyg.org/2007/09/01/amazon-ec2-for-people-who-prefer-debian-and-python-over-fedora-and-java/ Amazon EC2 Basics For Python Programmers]