December 10th, 2008

Tools for your Slice

Check out a couple of cool tools popping up from the Slicehost community.

SliceMonitor – a Slicehost widget for OS X by Ludwig Pettersson

Mike Mayo is working on an iPhone app for managing your Slices

Both of these use our API and we love seeing what people can do with it. If you have any suggestions or a tool you’re working on, let us know!

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22 Comments

  1. December 10th, 2008 at 08:05 PM Aaron Forgue

    This is awesome! Can’t wait for the iPhone app.

  2. December 10th, 2008 at 08:09 PM Jeremy Ricketts

    My god. I friggin love you guys.

  3. December 10th, 2008 at 08:12 PM Matt Gardner

    Very cool!

  4. December 10th, 2008 at 08:17 PM Brian Steere

    Is the iPhone app going to be shared? It looks awesome!

  5. December 10th, 2008 at 08:28 PM androidicus

    Can you port it to the Android platform? That would be awesome. :-)

  6. December 10th, 2008 at 08:29 PM Mike Mayo

    @Brian: yes, it’ll be shared. I’ll submit it to the App Store as a free app, and then release a premium version with more features for maybe $1.99.

  7. December 10th, 2008 at 09:44 PM edmodo

    This awesome, want it now!!! I’d pay a lot more than $1.99 for this mike.

  8. December 10th, 2008 at 09:53 PM jay

    Freakin Sweet!

  9. December 10th, 2008 at 10:37 PM James Brooks

    SliceMonitor looks fantastic, though the only issue is: I have to drag out a new widget for each of my slices (10 of them). Because there are 10 of them, whenever I open the dashboard each of them attempt to request it’s status via the API (this causes around 3-6 of the widgets to time out).

    Perhaps re-work the widget so all slices (or selected slices) can be monitored by a single widget to prevent a) having to a widget per slice and b) timeouts.

    I would have written this on the SliceManager page but there didn’t appear to be a comments section from quick glance. Apart from that, it looks great clean/tidy :).

  10. December 10th, 2008 at 10:42 PM Ludwig Pettersson

    James, I didn’t think about that some people might actually have a lot slices, whops!

    I’ll definitely start to work on a beefed up version that can handle an infinite amount of slices so there’s only need for one api call :)

    Thanks for the suggestion!

    (reactived the comments for any questions directed about The SliceMonitor widget)

  11. December 10th, 2008 at 10:45 PM xdmx

    Ludwig, i’ve tried to use slicemonitor with kde (it can import macosx’s widgets as plasmoids) but it doesn’t work :( (as with 4.1, i’ll try it with the 4.2 if something changes)

  12. December 10th, 2008 at 10:58 PM xdmx

    it doesn’t neither with kde 4.2 beta1 :(

  13. December 11th, 2008 at 12:43 AM Sean

    @Mike any chance of an update WHEN it will be released, do you have a blog we can follow this on?

  14. December 11th, 2008 at 01:36 AM Mike Mayo

    @Sean: I plan to finish the free version by this weekend. I’m not sure how long the App Store submission process takes, but I’ll post updates to http://overhrd.com

  15. December 12th, 2008 at 07:22 AM Agung Arifin

    Wow, you guys are awesome… this application is sweet…i want it….

  16. December 12th, 2008 at 12:10 PM AriX

    Sick! Can’t wait!

  17. December 13th, 2008 at 09:43 AM Mike Mayo

    I finished it up tonight, and I’ll be submitting to the app store this weekend. I posted quite a few screen shot on my blog here:

    http://overhrd.com/?p=43

  18. December 14th, 2008 at 02:08 AM Mike Mayo

    Okay, I’ve submitted the Pro version to the App Store! I’m about to go out for the night, so I’ll submit the free version tomorrow. I’ll keep you guys posted :)

  19. December 15th, 2008 at 01:36 AM Mike Mayo

    The free app has now been submitted. The difference is that the free app will access one account and the paid app will access multiple accounts. I hope you guys like it!

  20. December 16th, 2008 at 01:45 AM Pyrmont

    Mike Mayo, you are the man. I wanted a reason to buy an iphone. I can now kinda justify it. Kinda!

  21. December 29th, 2008 at 03:59 PM Ryan

    For the comment about Android.

    My company is slowly starting to browse the Android SDK page more and more. I think I might start a little open source project on GIT and crank out some code. I do not have the G1 nor will I be getting one in the coming months, anyone here have one? Would this be used at all? I would like to play with slicehost’s API and since the iPhone is covered, let me know.

    Thanks, Ryan

  22. January 8th, 2009 at 09:56 AM Thomas Balthazar

    Another tool for Slicehost : The Ubuntu Machine RubyGem has been release : these Open Source Capistrano recipes allow you to automate the setup of a machine running Ubuntu Server 8.0.4. They will install/setup : SSH, iptables, MySQL, Apache, PHP, Ruby (+ Ruby Enterprise Edition), Rails, Phusion Passenger, and Git. It has been tested on a Slicehost slice : http://suitmymind.github.com/ubuntu-machine/ and http://suitmymind.com/2009/01/07/ubuntu-machine-released/

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