Comments on: Awesome presentations with boom amazing

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:08:50 +0000

I have installed everything, but i am having the same problem as Tonci.. i can view the svg file from Futon, but there is none at drop down list on the actual site..

I am using windows, and Cygwin to push the app

Instructions:
git clone git://github.com/langalex/boom_amazing.git
cd boom_amazing
curl -X PUT http://localhost:5984/boom_amazing
couchapp push boom_amazing

What i am not sure is, how to do this in windows:
curl -X PUT http://localhost:5984/boom_amazing

curl is not a valid command for cygwin..
is that command necessary for the application to run properly?

Anyone knows?

By: Tonći

Tonći — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:29:31 +0000

Hi Alexander,

This sure sounds amazing! Could you please include an example? I’ve followed the instructions but there’s no svg to be found in the dropdown, I added 2 in the attachment folder, before pushing with couchapp, like Jan suggested.

I can view the 2 svg files with Futon, the content type also seems ok, they’re in the _attachments field, like expected. I’m using CouchDB 0.10, Firefox 3.5.5 on Ubuntu.

Could you help me out?

By: Hodicska Gergely

Hodicska Gergely — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:47:33 +0000

Take a look at http://prezi.com.

By: Martin Rehfeld

Martin Rehfeld — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:04:16 +0000

I instantly went: Boom, what an amazing idea I am still looking for an opportunity to deliver my first presentation with it, though. Today’s presentation sadly was overshadowed with bad news that made me refrain from applying fancy visuals. Anyhow: Boom Amazing will surely power one of my next talks. Thanks for taking the time to innovate and share.

By: Geoffrey Grosenbach

Geoffrey Grosenbach — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:50:01 +0000

Looks like an interesting idea, but I was unable to get it to work. Have you tried from a fresh Git checkout on a fresh database?

Steps:

* Clone repo
* couchapp push
* Use Futon to create a document and upload Untitled.svg
* The svg now shows up in the menu at http://localhost:5984/boom_amazing/_design/boom_amazing/index.html, but the screen is black after I select the svg in the menu. (The image is viewable from Futon with no problem).
* Safari debugger says there’s an error on app.js line 73: json['rows'] is an empty array.

Any ideas?

By: Jan Lehnardt

Jan Lehnardt — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:26:34 +0000

Hi Alex,

thanks for the great presentation and writing about how you made boom amazing. I have two observations: You don’t need to create a database explicitly before using `couchapp push`. it’ll create a db for you if it doesn’t exist yet.

Second, as for how to get going, you could change the instructions to copying the .svg file to the _attachments folder before running `couchapp push`. That way the extra step of uploading the file in Futon can be saved.

Great work!

Cheers
Jan
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