Rocking with River4: Lesson 5 – Keeping River4 Running on Heroku

The next installment in my screencast series on the River4 feed reader by Dave Winer follows up on my Heroku install video in Lesson 4. In this lesson, you will learn how to keep your Heroku app going with a free online service and still stay within the free service guidlines. Enjoy!

New screencast for the River4 feed reader: Lesson …

New screencast for the River4 feed reader: Lesson 4 – River4 Amazon S3 Heroku Setup http://andysylvester.com/b/8_

Rocking with River4: Lesson 4 – River4/Amazon S3/Heroku Setup

The next installment in my series of videos on the River4 feed reader by Dave Winer shows how to see your River4 rivers online. This video covers several topics:

Setting up an account on the Amazon S3 storage service
DNS setup for domain name
Github account setup
River4 setup
Heroku setup and deploy of the River4 app

Links referred to in the video are listed at the end of this post, after the video.

Amazon Web Services: http://aws.amazon.com

Creating a S3 bucket:

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/gsg/CreatingABucket.html

Bucket policies:

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/example-bucket-policies.html

Subscription lists:

http://river4.smallpict.com/2014/09/20/exampleSubscriptionLists.html

Example river website: http://rivertest.andysylvester.com/

New screencast for the River4 feed reader: Lesson …

New screencast for the River4 feed reader: Lesson 3 – Exploring the River4 Console App http://andysylvester.com/b/8T

Rocking with River4: Lesson 3 – Exploring the River4 Console App

Here is the next installment in my series of videos on the River4 feed reader by Dave Winer. In this video, you will get an overview of the River4 Console App, which you can use to control the River4 feed reader.

https://youtu.be/YxxMuUIlOAI

My second screencast for River4 feed reader: Lesso…

My second screencast for River4 feed reader: Lesson 2 – Adding Feeds to River4 http://andysylvester.com/b/87

My first screencast for River4 feed reader: Lesson…

My first screencast for River4 feed reader: Lesson 1 – River4 Windows Setup http://andysylvester.com/b/80

Testing riverBrowser source release from @davewine…

Testing riverBrowser source release from @davewiner – looks good! http://andysylvester.com/b/8A

Testing of riverBrowser release

I have done some initial testing of the riverBrowser source code release from Dave Winer, and I think my results look good!

My existing rivers using River4 0.108
Test display of one of my river files with code from riverBrowser release:
Test display of multiple rivers using HTML from Radio’s Rivers site (http://radio3.io/rivers/) (just replaced river URLs with URLs from my river site)

Rocking With River4: Lesson 2 – Adding Feeds to River4

Here’s the next installment in my series of videos on the River4 feed reader by Dave Winer. In this video, you will learn how to add new feeds to your River4 feed reader. Enjoy!