Preview: logviewer apollo application
I decided to get my feet wet (actually it’s more the whole legs) with Apollo and created an application that allows me to keep an eye on my web-server(s). The application pictured above (click on it to get a more detailed screenshot) contacts my server on a regular basis and “asks” for an xml-version of the last n access_log lines (yes, Apache running here, but it should be trivial to adapt that to non-Apache servers). It will then munge the data returned from the server in a number of different ways and create charts, tables with the very same information in a much more easily digestable format.
Have a few kinks that need to be sorted out, but I expect to have a downloadable AIR-file early next week. And, yes, I blurred that log2xml-URL on purpose. Stay tuned …
Update 2007/04/16: I posted the first version of the Apollo application including the sources at: First release of Apollo logviewer.
April 13th, 2007 at 9:28 pm
Well, I gave in and bought Flex the other day to play with at the office; keep this stuff coming (I can tell I’ll need a carrot or two)…
April 14th, 2007 at 4:43 am
That’s nice example..And good use-case of Apollo, I had thought of doing it sometime and did some prototyping…
-abdul
April 14th, 2007 at 7:26 am
Nice 1. This looks pretty cool. It looks like you’re using some data binding here. What else (if anything) are you using to process/parse your XML?
November 6th, 2007 at 3:44 am
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