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Just posting as previous domain names are going away, want to have some sort of results on google if anyone looks up SeaFlex.

We’re all still around, we meet at the same time, we just have more HTML/JS in our diet
New meetup group is here:
http://www.meetup.com/Seattle-Web-App-Developers-Group/

I’ve released 1.1 of the Identifi App. Check out the changes here:
http://identifi.mobi/version-1-1-released/

Or download here:
https://market.android.com/details?id=mobi.Identifi.app

1. sudo yum groupinstall Development\ Libraries
2. sudo yum groupinstall Development\ Tools
3. wget latest from http://nodejs.org/#download
4. tar xvfz node*.gz
5. follow instructions here: Node JS Installation
6. Install NPM: curl http://npmjs.org/install.sh | sh
7. Install Express: npm install express

1. get an account at dyndns.com
2. download ddclient from here.
3. tar xvfz ddclient*.gz
4. sudo cp ddclient /usr/bin
5. sudo mkdir /etc/ddclient
6. sudo nano /etc/ddclient/ddclient.conf
7. generate conf here, paste into nano, update password
8. sudo chmod u=rwx,go= /etc/ddclient/ddclient.conf
9. sudo cp sample-etc_rc.d_init.d_ddclient.redhat /etc/init.d/ddclient
10. chkconfig –add ddclient

So, you think you want to install Jira on EC2? This might not help that much, it’s mostly a note to myself, but hopefully it’s packed full of goodies to help you out.

OK, so first things first.. start up the Linux EBS Image on EC2. If you’re connecting on windows, you need to generate a ppk instead of a pem, and make sure you give putty your autologin name (currently ec2-user, and NOT root, despite what their instructions say).

OK, now you’re connected… You’ll need to install the Sun JDK (Atlassian doesn’t support OpenSDK, and even if they did, it crashes looking for fonts). Go find the linux download (*.rpm.bin), download it (wget +URL), chmod + x, then sudo it to install. This will install the jdk in /usr/java (not /usr/lib/jvm, where openJDK is installed). Make it the default java with: alternatives –install /usr/bin/java java /usr/java/jdk1.6.0_24/jre/bin/java 20000

Now download (wget +URL) Jira for Linux, untar the file. Create ‘jira-home’ in your ~ directory, and create the users like the tutorial asks. It’ll take a couple minutes to startup, but eventually everything will come online.

Want to see the query strings of the page, and not just the swf? Add this little gem:

var queryStrings:Object = ExternalInterface.call(“function(){var o= new Object();window.location.search.replace(new RegExp(“([^?=&]+)(=([^&]*))?”,”g”),function($0,$1,$2,$3){o[$1]=$3;});return o;}”);

I’ve uploaded my first app to the Android Market… some 2 years after I first downloaded the SDK, but less than a month after AIR for Android was released. The app is silly… a replica of the Multi Pass from ‘The Fifth Element’… but I’ll be adding in the ability to customize the info shortly….

Finished up our project for Geeks WithOut Bounds (http://gwob.org) at 5am this morning… it’s a game that crisis managers will be able to integrate into their websites and ‘playsource’ the tasks of Translating, Locating and Categorizing text messages from people in need. The gamers get badges posted to facebook, providing as much incentive as Farmville

The ‘game’ portion isn’t there yet, right now it’s a pretty form that pulls data from the crisis management software (which has an integration with a txt/im api, tropo.com), pushes responses, and tracks the experience for badges. It’s ripe for creative individuals to go hog-wild with it, however…

http://eden.playthisorpeopledie.com/eden/game/

If anyone is interested in continuing this work, let me know… I had to throw it up onto git, but I hate git, so I probably won’t be pushing any updates.

Sometime after Flex 4 beta 2 was released, they changed the main way to change the color of a sparkSkin from ‘baseColor’ to ‘chromeColor’. So, if you get an error in eclipse about how baseColor doesn’t exist, but the tutorials are telling you that it does, try chromeColor instead.

Here’s my presentation for December’s SeaFlexUG meeting: