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MonitR – My Apollo App

Posted by brandonthedeveloper at May 14th, 2007

So I’ve been working on this little app for quite a few evenings. It’s not that the inside was so difficult as much a me not wanting the outside to look like butt. ;)

And depending on your level of graphic design, it very well could look that way.

We have quite a few sites we host for clients and after our last experience with a horrible host provider (NET TELCOS), we became a little paranoid about site uptime. This app just sits on my desktop and pings a list of sites every five minutes and displays the results – Green is good, Red is bad. It doesn’t do much more than that, doesn’t spin like a dryer or recommend music but it definitely gives me ‘peace of mind’ to know if a site were to go down (hasn’t happened yet – Peak10 has been great), I would at least know and be able to communicate any issues to our host.

In honor of my 44th birthday today, I’d like to open up this app to anyone and everyone. Hope someone else finds it half as useful as I have.

I’m sure I don’t need to mention this but just in case, you need the Apollo Runtime to run this app. It can be found here – http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/apollo/

Here’s the link to my app – http://www.apollohunter.com/browse/detail.php?id=112

cheers,
Brandon

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1. May 14th, 2007 23:14

looking good mr ellis. app works like a charm

Sean Scott
2. May 19th, 2007 17:12

Your mom works on little apps.

lynn
3. May 19th, 2007 17:19

Man, only noobs use little apps.

kthxbai

lee
4. May 29th, 2007 13:47

man, i was looking for thethirds.com and ended up here. what the hell, i’m lost in cybeerspace!

bc3
5. June 29th, 2009 13:04

Phew! It IS you. When I don’t hear from you guys in a while, I get nervous. Love.

Sally

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