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Re: Showoff

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Post by tmhedberg »

Timothee wrote: post #74
geuis wrote: post #44

One note about the setup. When you have multiple ssh keys available, the "pick one" menu looks like this: Choose the public key you'd like to use: [0] id_dsa.pub [1] id_rsa.pub [q] Quit This should start with 1, not 0.

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.

Re: Showoff

#82

Post by mishmash »

bobwaycott wrote: post #68
chrismetcalf wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Set up an Apache mod_proxy from port 8080 on your server's localhost to a vhost at showoff.yourdomain.com. You'll have to make sure to build your app to not make any assumptions about where it's running (ex: links to " http://localhost:3000/path ), but you should be doing that anyway.

Yep, that's definitely possible. And yet, again, you have to "setup" something. It's totally okay to do things that way. Two thoughts: You have to have Apache setup (which, when developing a new project, you may likely not have even reached that point). You can also save your current file by going to File > Save. But Ctrl/Cmd+S is easier (and probably what you use every day).

> You have to have Apache setup (which, when developing a new project, you may likely not have even reached that point).

Showoff project is definitely cool, but instead of apache, nginx installs in one command and can easily proxy like this with about 10 lines of easily googled config using 1/10 of the resources on a simple prgmr account or the like.

Re: Showoff

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Post by tekacs »

bobwaycott wrote: post #68
chrismetcalf wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Set up an Apache mod_proxy from port 8080 on your server's localhost to a vhost at showoff.yourdomain.com. You'll have to make sure to build your app to not make any assumptions about where it's running (ex: links to " http://localhost:3000/path ), but you should be doing that anyway.

Yep, that's definitely possible. And yet, again, you have to "setup" something. It's totally okay to do things that way. Two thoughts: You have to have Apache setup (which, when developing a new project, you may likely not have even reached that point). You can also save your current file by going to File > Save. But Ctrl/Cmd+S is easier (and probably what you use every day).

With just the most minuscule bit of initial setup a simple bash function using just SSH can replicate all of the functionality (and more) of showoff.io, with just as much ease ('show 3000 subdomain') but hopefully the upcoming features will make it a more viable proposition... :)

Then again, I'm quite happy with a VPS setup since I get all of the extra benefits of having the server around...

Re: Showoff

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Post by tekacs »

moe wrote: post #48

If you have a public facing server then this can be had for free: ssh -nNT -R 8080:localhost:3000 myserver.com Et voilà, myserver.com:8080 now points to localhost:3000.

Hmm I've been using the following: https://gist.github.com/932137 for some time now - it's just a bash function which lets me type:

$ show 3000 test

and get http://test.tekacs.com/ -> port 3000 on my computer using just SSH, assuming you have root access to the server (which you would need to set up forwarding on port 80 anyway...)

$ ssh -tR 1080:127.0.0.1:$1 vps "sudo ssh -Nl \$USER -L $REMOTE:80:127.0.0.1:1080 localhost"

being the functional line...

Re: Showoff

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Post by russellperry »

senex wrote: post #27
jsdalton wrote: post #23

Awesome. I'm definitely a potential paying customer. Two suggestions and a question: * How about a free trial for unlimited access or some other kind of cancellation guarantee? * Minor one, but the dark contrast on your website UI is about equivalent to the background on a typical lightbox...i.e. it reads "disabled" to me on first glance. One question: I assume I could map a CNAME record to the showoff URL? (So cooki…

We're going to add CNAME support soon. Thanks for the feedback about the color scheme. If you sign up for an unlimited account and you're _really_ unhappy, send an email to support@showoff.io and we can talk about a refund :)

Contrast could be better but I like the layout and fonts. Simple.

Re: Showoff

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Post by erik_p »

great idea - definitely why haven't I thought of this pain point that I run into all the time. No fussing with dynDNS, opening ports, or scrambling to deploy a public interweb accessible version of dev code.

Kudos, man.. kudos.

Re: Showoff

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Post by PhrosTT »

gregschlom wrote: post #34
jsdalton wrote: post #23

Awesome. I'm definitely a potential paying customer. Two suggestions and a question: * How about a free trial for unlimited access or some other kind of cancellation guarantee? * Minor one, but the dark contrast on your website UI is about equivalent to the background on a typical lightbox...i.e. it reads "disabled" to me on first glance. One question: I assume I could map a CNAME record to the showoff URL? (So cooki…

I second the dark contrast point. My first reaction on the site was "omg, what can I do to put some color and some life here". I even tried playing with the bookmarks on the top right corner to see if they would light up the site.

i'll chime in as somebody who likes it.

Re: Showoff

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Post by geuis »

Timothee wrote: post #74
geuis wrote: post #44

One note about the setup. When you have multiple ssh keys available, the "pick one" menu looks like this: Choose the public key you'd like to use: [0] id_dsa.pub [1] id_rsa.pub [q] Quit This should start with 1, not 0.

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

Yes, I think I understand why it starts with 0. However, this is about context. When I am coding, I know indexes start with 0. When I am picking from a list of items in a menu, the context is starting from one.

When you go to a restaurant and you order the first thing on the menu, you don't say "I'd like to have the zeroth item" do you?

Re: Showoff

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Post by [deleted] »

albemuth wrote: post #17
mtogo wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ah, that makes sense. Thanks.

Funny, I thought you mentioned the VPS because you could still reverse tunnel and share the app in your laptop without deploying. I was going to say that it's still a good idea since the day pass is just $1. p.s. surprised they didn't go for 99 cents

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