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Re: Showoff

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Post by dpritchett »

kaffeinecoma wrote: post #72
dpritchett wrote: post #67

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Ctrl-C doesn't do it for you?

Presumably, but I haven't tried running it. I'd kind of like to know how to turn off something that's going to do port-forwarding on my machine before starting it up.

The /usr/bin/show script simply locates the gem and runs it in a Ruby process. You can kill it like any other console program. Inspect the gem if you're curious.

The interesting part of the gem starts off like this:

    def showoff(rhost, rport, lport=80, host='localhost')
      @session.forward.remote lport, host, rport
[1] http://rubygems.org/gems/showoff-io

Re: Showoff

#102

Post by Timothee »

tmhedberg wrote: post #81
Timothee wrote: post #74

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Considering the likely audience, starting with 0 seems adequate. (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-based_numbering )

True, but when using numbers to make a menu selection, it makes more sense to start numbering at 1, because of the way number keys are arranged across the top of the keyboard. It's slightly less intuitive to have the key corresponding to the first menu option positioned far to the right of the subsequent options.

Good point about the positions of the keys.

In fact, I had never thought that one could argue that the '0' key should be to the left of the '1' key… keyboards predate computers, so I see why this is not the case, but it could be argued.

Re: Showoff

#103

Post by HerraBRE »

andrewheins wrote: post #56

I was looking for exactly this service a few weeks ago and would be a paying customer, but I develop on Windows. A future market, if you're interested.

Check out http://pagekite.net/ , it's Python and it runs on Windows just fine. We are working on a user-friendly installer and GUI, but if you're a developer you don't need that. :-)

Re: Showoff

#104

Post by [deleted] »

pakeha wrote: post #95
HerraBRE wrote: post #94

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This is very similar to my http://pagekite.net/ , which offers both free trials and CNAME records already. They're out-marketing me, I guess. It looks nicely done!

It's not obvious by looking at the pagekite homepage what the product does. Lots of focus on the benefits, but as a developer, I'd rather just know what it does and how to use it I would even suggest taking inspiration from the clearly annotated three-panel diagram on the showoff.io homepage - very clear and simple. I am guessing that pagekite might offer more functionality than this, but again, I am having trouble f…

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Re: Showoff

#105

Post by pakeha »

HerraBRE wrote: post #98
pakeha wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not obvious by looking at the pagekite homepage what the product does. Lots of focus on the benefits, but as a developer, I'd rather just know what it does and how to use it I would even suggest taking inspiration from the clearly annotated three-panel diagram on the showoff.io homepage - very clear and simple. I am guessing that pagekite might offer more functionality than this, but again, I am having trouble f…

Yes, we have been struggling with a focus problem. We're techies (and our tech is good), not marketing gurus. :-) Thanks!

I absolutely understand. I'm not a marketing person either, but I have some experience in usability research, and I think you will get as much value from testing the homepage with a few fresh faces as you would from a marketing project. There is an interesting crossover between usability and product marketing when it comes to homepages and messaging. If you haven't already, I highly recommend Steve Krug's new book "Rocket surgery made easy", which is focused on guerilla usability testing. Usability testing is classically about identifying problems/improvements to a UI, but you can quite easily use the same techniques to test your homepage and figure out whether people understand the product and whether the homepage encourages them to try it out, etc. Have fun!

Re: Showoff

#107

Post by maheswaran »

i havent tried showoff.io and little curious about how about internal reference translations? for example css files?

does this translates to ???

Re: Showoff

#109

Post by drtse4 »

hinathan wrote: post #4

This looks like a slick expansion of the idea here https://github.com/progrium/localtunnel/ Will be sure to kick the tires with a side project or two.

Yep, was going to post about that too (progrium rocks), but looks like the site the project used for its redirects is down http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/localtunnel.com

Re: Showoff

#110

Post by Xk »

There's an XSS on the page:

Try to login or create an account. Enter this as your username (or password, as long as it's not valid: you need an error), hit submit. Error + XSS.

alert(1);

You escape quotes, which is good, so I can't break out of the JSON request. But you have to remember how the HTML parsing of a page works. will break out from within a javascript string.

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