This week I have made some big strides in two of the products I have been working on. The schedule I have planned out is quite ambitious and I actually wasn’t sure if I was going to get everything done that I had planned this week – but I did, yay!

There are a couple of really interesting things I have done this week. I am planning to use Amazon Web Services so have been learning how to create images to run in EC2. I now have a customised Ubuntu image setup and has Mono and MySQL installed and on startup it automatically pulls the latest version of my application from an S3 bucket. This actually turned out to be a lot easier than I expected and is pretty cool to hit a button and have a new server starup and start running my app.

The other cool thing I now have is a couple of scripts for installing mono. It will download the appropriate tarballs, extract them, makes and installs them. This took a lot of work to figure out everything that was needed and tweak the script so that it worked. It is the first shell script I have ever written so it was a good learning experience.