http://classes.eclab.byu.edu/462/ Engineering Large-Scale Internet Applications, Winter 2009 en-us 2009-04-13T16:20:05-07:00 http://classes.eclab.byu.edu/462/archives/2009/04/ta-hours-3.shtml I'll be having some more office hours as this semester wraps up. I'll be in my office on Thursday from 4pm to 5:30pm.... Devlin 2009-04-13T16:20:05-07:00 http://classes.eclab.byu.edu/462/archives/2009/04/data-center-fie.shtml I just talked to Barry and he's expecting us. Please be there by 4:15 and plan on an hour for the tour. You are responsible for your own travel arrangements. Here is the address: 333 South 520 West Lindon,... windley 2009-04-07T18:55:10-07:00 http://classes.eclab.byu.edu/462/archives/2009/04/office-hours-th.shtml I'm adding office hours on Wednesday, 8 April 9-11am I'll still be holding my office hours on Thursday, 9-11am and Friday 3-5pm Most of the labs I've passed off have had some sort of small hiccup. It would be a... Devlin 2009-04-07T15:28:42-07:00 http://classes.eclab.byu.edu/462/archives/2009/03/no-office-hours-2.shtml First off, it's Friday the 13th. Someone once said that a smart man learns from his mistakes, while a wise man learns from the mistakes of others. Well, I'm not hanging out by myself in some dark corner of the... Devlin 2009-03-11T15:39:03-07:00 http://classes.eclab.byu.edu/462/archives/2009/02/jsonrpc.shtml The other day in class someone asked me about the use of JSON in place of SOAP. Here it is: the JSON-RPC 2.0 proposal. That would do it.... Items of Interest windley 2009-02-21T14:01:41-07:00 http://classes.eclab.byu.edu/462/archives/2009/02/simpledb-code-f.shtml Here is the sample code I walked through Monday in class to query SimpleDB. This code is in Ruby, and uses the RightScale AWS ruby gem. Update: I tried to put this in a pre, code block and it looked... Devlin 2009-02-10T15:23:00-07:00 http://classes.eclab.byu.edu/462/archives/2009/02/tools-for-simpl.shtml If any of you are test-first developers or trying out Test Driven Development (TDD) this may be of interest to you. I've run across a project at Google Code that replicates the SimpleDB api's for local development. This is ideal... Devlin 2009-02-05T11:21:44-07:00 http://classes.eclab.byu.edu/462/archives/2009/02/lab-2-due-date.shtml If you're having trouble finishing Lab 2, feel free to take until Friday. If you don't think you can get it done by Friday you ought to be talking to me or Devlin. There was a problem with the... windley 2009-02-03T16:15:02-07:00 http://classes.eclab.byu.edu/462/archives/2009/02/update-on-lab-2.shtml We've been sorting out some issues with the reference implementation that you use in Lab 2. Still in progress. Some highlights: Load balancerThe registration endpoint is borked. Registration of your backend should be done via POST. It is currently adding... Devlin 2009-02-02T10:49:48-07:00 http://classes.eclab.byu.edu/462/archives/2009/01/class-planet-ag.shtml I've gotten the CS462 Planet configured for this semester. I've only gotten URLs from 6 of you to your blog feed. The idea of the planet is that when you run in to issues with the labs, or come up... Devlin 2009-01-30T15:32:45-07:00 http://classes.eclab.byu.edu/462/archives/2009/01/no-office-hours-1.shtml Got notice from the CS department that there will be no power in the Talmage Building on Friday during office hours. Sure, I think my batter could last, but without Internet, well, let's just not go there.... Devlin 2009-01-29T17:04:47-07:00 http://classes.eclab.byu.edu/462/archives/2009/01/passing-off-lab.shtml Lab 1 is due Wednesday, 21 January 2009. Due to the holiday, I won't have any more office hours before Wednesday. You must email me your code (a zip or tgz is fine) by the due date, Wednesday. Then you... Devlin 2009-01-17T14:26:10-07:00 http://classes.eclab.byu.edu/462/archives/2009/01/account-private.shtml For Lab 1, you'll need our account's public and private X509 certificates to persist your AMI. You can find these at: http://daleynews.com/protected/ The username and password are the same as our shared Amazon account. The file beginning in cert is... Devlin 2009-01-14T13:44:34-07:00 http://classes.eclab.byu.edu/462/archives/2009/01/ta-office-hours-1.shtml I'm available in person at 1126 TMCB on: Monday 9-11am Thursday 9-11am Friday 3-5pm I'm available via email at cs462ta@byu.edu (note the distinct lack of a CS in that address).... Devlin 2009-01-13T15:28:16-07:00 http://classes.eclab.byu.edu/462/archives/2009/01/dont-leave-inst.shtml Just a friendly reminder: don't leave your servers running when you don't need them. We've currently got a 20 server limit on our account, and there are more than 20 students in the course. Be kind, rewind Don't be... Devlin 2009-01-13T15:14:28-07:00