Software Physics

Having been a code monkey…

This is brilliant.

I work remotely a lot and frequently need to show remote users something I’m doing on my machine. To do this I wrote a simple program to capture my desktop then upload it to my website where viewers could take a look. I automated the viewer end with a little Javascript so, as I put images up, the viewers’ screens update. I called the application Simple Web Sharing or SWS. The tool was really only useful to me or technical folks who owned a website where they could post screenshots. I recently modified the application to use Amazon’s S3 so now you don’t need to figure out the website end of things. I think the tools are pretty useful and now interesting to a wider audience so I’m making them available.

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I’ve spent some time over the past few weeks hacking an old application of mine to do some new tricks. It now uses Amazon’s S3; it’s a bit Ajaxy; I cleaned up the code; it’s been fun. There’s two bits to it, an application client and a web client. I wanted to allow other folks to easily use the application; I thought .Net 1.x framework requiement wouldn’t be a problem; I was wrong.

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I’ve spent some time writing an application based on S3 over the past two weeks. I’m very excited that this building block is in place. You can already see a number of folks digging in building tools. Some observations: Read more »