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SeaFlex is now Seattle Web Application Developers

Dusty — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 18:46:41 +0000

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/

Identifi 1.1 Released

Dusty — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 06:23:11 +0000

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

Note to Self: Running Node.js on Amazon EC2

Dusty — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 17:28:31 +0000

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

Note To Self: Simple DNS for Amazon EC2

Dusty — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 15:25:56 +0000

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

Installing Jira on Amazon EC2 Linux AMI

Dusty — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 05:19:01 +0000

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.

Page QueryStrings in Actionscript

Dusty — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 06:25:38 +0000

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’m Officially an App Developer!

Dusty — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 07:12:58 +0000

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….

PlayThisOrPeopleDie

Dusty — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 21:33:13 +0000

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.

Flex 4 gotcha – baseColor changed to chromeColor

Dusty — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:13:32 +0000

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.

Using Flex for pushing data from BlazeDS to HTML

Dusty — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 09:03:50 +0000

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