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Creating A New AWS EC2 Key For A Third Party Developer
This guide will take you through the steps to create a new Key and then add it to your EC2 instance.
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Creating An IAM User For Third Party Developers
Allow secure tailored access to your AWS infrastructure to engineers and developers.
AWS Business Continuity Plan
Learn how to create an effective business continuity plan for your AWS stack.
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Creating an Android Image Slider Control for your App (Part 1 of 3)
Would you like to create an Android Image Slider Control for your App?At Allcode, we needed to build an Image Slider Control into one of our client's Android apps. Initially, we thought it would be as simple as implementing the standard Android Gallery...
How to Debug Ruby on Rails through SSL with RubyMine Foreman
If you’re required to debug Ruby on Rails in RubyMine Foreman through SSL, e.g. you’ve got a Facebook App, you will find the following useful.Unfortunately, I’ve not been able to find a way to debug by using the standard debug rails configuration. Instead, I had to...
Dynamic Facebook Permissions for your Facebook App
What are Dynamic Facebook Permissions? Let’s say you’ve written a Facebook App using the Facebook JavaScript API, and you don’t want to ask for a ton of permissions when the user signs up for your Facebook App because you’re afraid the permissions will scare them...
Using JSBuilder to compress your Sencha Touch Apps
If you’re writing any sort of Sencha app, you must aggregate and minify the JavaScript using the JSBuilder utility. Unfortunately, the JSBuilder utility is cryptic.You can download the JSBuilder here.Once you get it installed, you need to build a jsb3 file. Don’t try...
Selling
Selling In doing startups, either you quickly get over the fear of writing emails or calling complete strangers and asking them to purchase your goods or you perish. Even when you make a connection with a prospective buyer , many of these people will invariably say,...
AWS SSL Certificates for Elastic Beanstalk
AWS SSL Certificates for Elastic Beanstalk are a pain to configure so I put together the following. SSL certificates for your vanity domain will work correctly as long as users access your Elastic Beanstalk environment through your vanity domain name.Certs are not...
How to migrate your EC2 MySQL Instance to RDS
The other day I had to migrate a couple of databases from an EC2 MySQL instance to RDS. I couldn’t find a decent example of how to do this so I wrote this up.
Some of you might ask why do you want to do this? You get more control with EC2 than RDS. The reality is the EC2 instance ran out of RAM, and I didn’t want to build out a new box.