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Comment on idiot’s guide to linux on amazon ec2 – part 1 by Mohamad

Mohamad — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:14:25 +0000

Thanks for this post. I’m trying to make the most of it, but I don’t think it’s “dummy” enough. I could not follow steps E and F for adding a new user. I’m not sure what you mean by “Rename the file ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys”; also, I can’t figure out how to download the generated key file to my machine. I tried several commands, but nothing worked.

Comment on abolish the switch statement by Nice code and switches « NRGsoft

Nice code and switches « NRGsoft — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 11:48:32 +0000

[...] I had a thought while I was working on the game Alone In the Office (my LudumDare 22 entry). I wonder if I can make this code look more beautiful. So I went through and refactored the code. Okay, so I cleaned it up. There was cleaning to be done. But, I wondered if I could find any useful tid-bits of information about what other people do to keep code nice. I found this article and I noticed B. B is to return the immediate value of a boolean test instead of testing if the boolean test returned true or false. Mind you, in certain cases you DO need to check. In the cases of some of my code, I did not. B is the one thing I apparently overlooked in programming over the years. It’s interesting how I never noticed it to say the least. Anyways, upon reading to the end I find this article. [...]

Comment on 7 ways to write beautiful code by Nice code and switches « NRGsoft

Nice code and switches « NRGsoft — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 10:47:42 +0000

[...] could find any useful tid-bits of information about what other people do to keep code nice. I found this article and I noticed B. B is to return the immediate value of a boolean test instead of testing if the [...]

Comment on idiot’s guide to linux on amazon ec2 – part 2 by raj

raj — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 22:25:27 +0000

Hi Gregg,

Nice tutorial.. how did you get the apt-get to work on amazon linux ami!!

Comment on the real geek test by Joe

Joe — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 21:34:29 +0000

I tend to live on model, anyone claiming to be a geek usually ain’t. I don’t know what this makes me. Maybe I’ve stumbled into some sort of paradox. I’d like to examine further, if anyone has comments pls post. There must be some sort of evidence leaning in one direction or another, right?

Comment on JavaScript media player by Andre Matos

Andre Matos — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 02:54:24 +0000

Hi Gregg, thankyou for your support. I change to latest version 1.02 and it fix the problem, working fine , congratulations of your work to make it better ..

best regards,

Andre Matos from Brazil

Comment on JavaScript media player by Gregg

Gregg — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 00:41:32 +0000

Hi Andre, I'm not sure if you are using the latest version of the player or not? Unfortunately I never published its existence very well so it is likely that you are not. Anyway to your problem. I could reproduce the issues you were seeing when I clicked on the play/pause button of the player on this page. However, I think I've been able to fix it. I'm not sure if you were on the latest version of the code as described in a previous comment. If not then you may have to make a few (small) changes to your page to use the fix I have uploaded as it uses a slightly different way of initialising the player. Instructions on where to download the update and the steps you will need to go through are given below. First, download the latest version from this link, replacing your existing files. If you are using the version posted in the previous comment then you are done. Otherwise if you have been using the older version (that is, if you clicked the big download buttons) you will have a line in your HTML that look something like:


  var _MyPlayerLocation_ = "js/myplayer";

This needs to be replaced with the following (where location matches the location you supplied above):


  var _MyPlayerSettings_ = {
    location: "js/myplayer",
    startTrackClass: "play_me_first",
    startVolume: 19
  };

There are obviously a few new settings here, you can ignore if you want - simply delete the lines with "startTrackClass" and "startVolume" or comment them out. Hopefully this will sort the issues you had with the player. Thanks for commenting and trying it out. Hope the fix works.

Comment on JavaScript media player by Andre Matos

Andre Matos — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 23:02:16 +0000

I say track , but track don’t move player, only play / pause, and volume buttons. Best regrads

Comment on JavaScript media player by Andre Matos

Andre Matos — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 03:40:34 +0000

Tks Gregg for your work , I’m trying your player. But when I click on track or on play / pause, the page refresh and player go to top of page, it’s possible see here in your demo, position scroll of page to player align to center of page, when you click it’s go to top. It’s possible disable this ? , when I click player continue in actual position ? Thanks for help, best regards, Andre From Brazil , sorry bad english.

Comment on on being open to change by Gregg

Gregg — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 23:31:57 +0000

Dude, that book only gets 3 out of 5 stars, says it all I am in fact going to read (soon) “Making Software: What Really Works, and Why We Believe It”. It apparently does several studies on various methodologies and provides some (hopefully) accurate conclusions. I believe in science and numbers, not what resonates loudest in echo chambers.