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June 20, 2006

Where did gpokr go today? The answer is a string of unlikely events:

The gpokr server is running on my home machine because its a java servlet running on tomcat and I don't have any web server access with tomcat.
Rogers, providing good home internet service, changed my IP address after years with the same one. Causing my dynamic domain redirection service no-ip to point to the wrong place.
The point of dynamic redirection services are to update the ip address for a domain dynamically when it changes. But not today. Upon logging to to my no-ip account I see this message:
2006/06/20, 09:17 AM : Updating hosts for Free and Enhanced services is temporarily disabled due to a small outage. It should be available again in the next few minutes. There is no need to resubmit your updates, they will go through as soon as this is rectified.

A few minutes turned into several hours.

Its back up but the situation is so ghetto. Lets get gpokr out of the ghetto. Please recommend a good tomcat host.

Ryan Dewsbury Inc.

Websites
- GPokr My first GWT application. It's a multiplayer Texas Holdem Poker community with monthly competitions and tournaments.
- GWT Applications Book I wrote a book on using GWT to build rich apps on web technology. The book gives you an broad look over the technology in it's first half and dives deep into 5 complete apps in the second half.
- KDice My second GWT application. I built this right before writing the GWT book. It's a strategy game like risk sitting on the GPokr framework. So it has lots of poker elements like it's monthly competition and tournaments.
- XSketch The third game I wrote on the GPokr framework. It's online pictionary. The word list is managed by a few advisors on the site and recently passed 7,000 words.