DigitalOcean Indicator

http://blog.andrewsomething.com/2014/04/25/digitalocean-indicator-release/

by spindritf • 12 years ago

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alixaxel• 12 years ago

Nice! Any plans for a Linode version as well?

tyrelb• 12 years ago

would love a linode version!

kbar13• 12 years ago

Since you are already using an API wrapper, i would highly recommend using a lib that is provider-agnostic, such as libcloud[0], which provides a pythonic abstraction layer over all the crap that various IaaS providers put into their API designs.

[0] https://libcloud.apache.org/

abcd_f2• 12 years ago

pythonic

Not to state the obvious, but that's not terribly practical for anyone except those writing in Python.

gingerlime• 12 years ago

but:

a) the indicator is written in python b) there are equivalent cloud-abstraction libraries in other languages, like fog[0] in ruby, jclouds[1] in java, pkgcloud[2] for node and maybe others.

The point I believe was that if you use an abstraction layer over many providers, you can instantly make this useful for other/any cloud providers, not just digital ocean, and without any extra code. At least in theory.

[0]http://fog.io/ [1]http://jclouds.apache.org/ [2]https://www.npmjs.org/package/pkgcloud

techaddict009• 12 years ago

This is really super cool. Hope someone makes out something similar for windows.

girvo4• 12 years ago

Oh heck yes. Call me weird, but little hacks like this are why I'm struggling to decide what laptop to get. I want to get a MacBook Pro, but I enjoy using Linux so much (Ubuntu in particular) I'm struggling to decide whether or not I should!

IgorPartola• 12 years ago

I was in the same boat. Get the MBP. The build quality is so great, the thing is a pleasure to use. And the OS is something I got used to very quickly.

frakkingcylons• 12 years ago

With regards to programming, what are the benefits of the high-resolution of the Retina line? I'm looking at laptops and considering a System76 but the resolution is only 1920x1080.

girvo4• 12 years ago

I should've have said that I love OS X, and use it on all my other machines already! The only reason I'm considering something like a Dell XPS 13 dev edition is solely because having a Linux laptop to hack around on makes me happy. I'm thinking the Pro 13 + either a dual boot or Ubuntu in a VM will be the way to go, as you're right, they are amazing machines :)

meddlepal• 12 years ago

I've had two MBP since 2007 and I'm done with Apple for my next system. The hardware is fine but I always feel like I'm going to break something irreversably when I tweak something in OSX. The hardware doesn't justify the price either so just booting Linux on it does not appeal to me. The one other thing I can't standcabout MBPs is the keyboard. Too much space between keys.

Problem is finding a good non-Apple laptop I can put Fedora on... It's probably going to be a Dell or Lenovo.

xorgar831• 12 years ago

I have a MBP, and recently bought a Lenovo X1 for Linux, but have found the trackpad is pretty awful compared to my MBP. Even with Windows, so it's not Linux specific. Despite numerous attempts at tuning one of it's 200 settings, I can't seem to get it to not move the cursor a few pixels before I tap it to click, and thus clicking the wrong thing. Good luck.

GoodIntentions• 12 years ago

I have had good luck with Toshiba satellites. Running Debian on a P750 currently. This is my second Toshiba with linux, don't have any issues.

eridius3• 12 years ago

I always feel like I'm going to break something irreversably when I tweak something in OSX

What do you mean? What exactly are you tweaking that you think will break things? And why do you think the OS is so fragile?

nilgradisnik2• 12 years ago

I don't think you should. There are plenty of options other than MacBooks if you are an Ubuntu user. My top two would be: http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/xps-13-linux/pd http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/x-series/x1-ca...

eridius3• 12 years ago

little hacks like this

What, small utility applications? This app could be written for OS X just as easily as it was written for Ubuntu.

That said, use whatever OS you like. Personally, I'm a big fan of OS X. But if you like using Ubuntu, that's fine.

girvo4• 12 years ago

Yes, they could (and are). The difference being, Linux often has more of them than OS X, and they are 99% of the time open source, whereas I have paid for all my utility apps on OS X (which I don't mind doing). I prefer open source, so I can edit them to what I need, which I do all the time. It's a "culture" thing overall, I feel :)

canadev• 12 years ago

Personally, I like the MacBook Air. I don't see why you couldn't get one of those and run Ubuntu on it.

isalmon• 12 years ago

I'm getting "W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/andrewsomething/digitalocean/ubuntu... 404 Not Found "

Does anybody else have this problem?

aroman• 12 years ago

I'm not using his PPA, but the reason you're getting those errors is because his PPA only has builds for saucy and trusty, and you're using raring.

Easiest thing to do would be to ask him to add a build target for raring.

kijin• 12 years ago

Easiest thing to do would be to ask him to add a build target for raring.

Many PPA developers have a policy of only supporting Ubuntu releases that Canonical also supports.

Official support for raring expired 3 months ago. AFAIK it didn't even get the Heartbleed patch. The correct thing to do would be to update to trusty. It might even turn out to be the easiest thing as well, because you'll run more and more into these kinds of issues as everyone else leaves raring behind.

tnorthcutt3• 12 years ago

The top comment as of the time of my writing is as follows:

OS x version, please!!

Screw this. I'm on a Mac, but this is crap. This guy put in a bunch of time and made something awful, and the top voted comment is asking him to port it to another system, without even thanking him for his work or acknowledging how often what he made is? Ugh. Talk about entitled.

Want an OS X version? https://github.com/andrewsomething/digitalocean-indicator/fo...

n72• 12 years ago

I think you mean "made something awesome", no?

Stormcaller• 12 years ago

Well, "terrific" can be used as "awesome" too so...

tnorthcutt3• 12 years ago

Yes, you're quite right :)

ericduran• 12 years ago

Ha, I started working on one (https://github.com/ericduran/digitalocean-indicator-mac) but it still needs tons of work before anybody can use it.

falker• 12 years ago

Have a look at https://github.com/tito/rumps

tnorthcutt3• 12 years ago

Oops, that should be "made something awesome"

nilgradisnik2• 12 years ago

Great work! I see myself using this for my droplets. Developing Unity indicators can be fun since it's so simple to create small notification apps for various services. (shameless self promo https://github.com/nilgradisnik/coinprice-indicator)

tbrock• 12 years ago

This is great! Would you mind sharing how you got started? Is there a great tutorial out there for building indicators and widgets for unity?

I tried to do this twice, once for unity and another time for the gnome shell and I couldn't find anything useful out there (or even figure out what programming language I needed to know) and became pretty discouraged. I think that was about a year or two ago and it seemed like outsiders to those respective dev communities faced an exceedingly uphill battle.

I mentioned this to a gnome dev I know and he agreed that the docs were lacking but is there a secret or something new we don't know about?

nacs• 12 years ago

The source is on Github and in Python so looking through it may give you some clues: https://github.com/koalalorenzo/python-digitalocean

tunnuz• 12 years ago

Very nice!

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