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Dynamic Facebook Permissions for your Facebook App

by | Jan 26, 2014 | ,

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

by | Jan 26, 2014 | ,

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

by | Jan 26, 2014 | ,

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, “Yes, I’d...

AWS SSL Certificates for Elastic Beanstalk

by | Jan 26, 2014 | , ,

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...

What do you do when your SSL Certificate expired?

by | Jan 26, 2014 |

I ran into this problem the other day. My SSL Certificate expired for my dev domain. I went to Network Solutions, snagged a new Certificate using my old Certificate Signing Request (CSR), and tried to import it into my keystore. In the past, I’ve always generated my...

Minify Sencha ExtJs in Production

by | Jan 26, 2014 | ,

The main issue that I’ve encountered using SenchaExtJs in Production is the compressed JavaScript after using JSBuilder is still large. JSBuilder does a nice job of compressing and obfuscating, but the generated app-all.js is still too big, which means that the...

How to migrate your EC2 MySQL Instance to RDS

How to migrate your EC2 MySQL Instance to RDS

by | Jan 26, 2014 | ,

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.

Best Practices for AWS Cost Optimization

by | Jan 25, 2014 | ,

Sharon Wagner did a nice little presentation at the Silicon Valley Cloud Computing Group today.Sharon Wagner did a nice little presentation at the Silicon Valley Cloud Computing Group today. It looks like we should be leveraging Glacier storage more as it’s...

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