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Dynamic Facebook Permissions for your Facebook App

What are Dynamic Facebook Permissions? Let’s say you’ve written a Facebook App using the Facebook JavaScript API, and you don’t want to ask for a ton of permissions when the user signs up for your Facebook App because you’re afraid the permissions will scare them...

Using JSBuilder to compress your Sencha Touch Apps

If you’re writing any sort of Sencha app, you must aggregate and minify the JavaScript using the JSBuilder utility. Unfortunately, the JSBuilder utility is cryptic.You can download the JSBuilder here.Once you get it installed, you need to build a jsb3 file. Don’t try...

Selling

Selling In doing startups, either you quickly get over the fear of writing emails or calling complete strangers and asking them to purchase your goods or you perish. Even when you make a connection with a prospective buyer , many of these people will invariably say,...

AWS SSL Certificates for Elastic Beanstalk

AWS SSL Certificates for Elastic Beanstalk are a pain to configure so I put together the following. SSL certificates for your vanity domain will work correctly as long as users access your Elastic Beanstalk environment through your vanity domain name.Certs are not...

How to migrate your EC2 MySQL Instance to RDS

How to migrate your EC2 MySQL Instance to RDS

The other day I had to migrate a couple of databases from an EC2 MySQL instance to RDS. I couldn’t find a decent example of how to do this so I wrote this up.

Some of you might ask why do you want to do this? You get more control with EC2 than RDS. The reality is the EC2 instance ran out of RAM, and I didn’t want to build out a new box.