CS462
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Engineering Large-Scale Internet Applications, Winter 2009en-us2009-04-13T16:20:05-07:00TA Hours
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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....Devlin2009-04-13T16:20:05-07:00Data Center Field Trip
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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,...windley2009-04-07T18:55:10-07:00Office Hours This Week (6-10 April)
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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...Devlin2009-04-07T15:28:42-07:00No Office Hours Friday (13 March)
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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...Devlin2009-03-11T15:39:03-07:00JSON-RPC
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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 Interestwindley2009-02-21T14:01:41-07:00SimpleDB Code from Class
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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...Devlin2009-02-10T15:23:00-07:00Tools for SimpleDB TDD
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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...Devlin2009-02-05T11:21:44-07:00Lab 2 Due Date
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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...windley2009-02-03T16:15:02-07:00Update on Lab 2
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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...Devlin2009-02-02T10:49:48-07:00Class Planet Aggregator
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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...Devlin2009-01-30T15:32:45-07:00No Office Hours Tomorrow (Friday 30 Jan)
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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....Devlin2009-01-29T17:04:47-07:00Passing Off Lab 1
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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...Devlin2009-01-17T14:26:10-07:00Account Private and Public Keys
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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...Devlin2009-01-14T13:44:34-07:00TA Office Hours
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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)....Devlin2009-01-13T15:28:16-07:00Don't Leave Instances Running
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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...Devlin2009-01-13T15:14:28-07:00