How CloudFare asks for Feedback

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Now Showing: WWDC 2012

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Registered Apple Developers can now access over 100 session videos to get an in-depth look at the latest in iOS and OS X.

Now Showing Wwdc 2012

View the videos at https://developer.apple.com/videos/wwdc/2012

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Input/Output – Google I/O 2012

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Google I/O 2012 brings together thousands of developers for three days of deep technical content focused
on building the next generation of web, mobile, and enterprise applications with Google and
open web technologies such as Android, Google Chrome, Google APIs, Google Web Toolkit, App Engine, and more.

Brush up on your geometry, dust off your protractor, and architect a machine only you could have dreamt of. Join developers tackling our latest Chrome Experiment for a chance to have your machine featured at Google I/O.

The keynote and the sessions for Chrome, Android, Google+ and other select sessions will be streamed live across four channels during the first two days of Google I/O. Be sure to bookmark this page and check back on June 27.

Learn the latest web, mobile and social breakthroughs and meet the developers who are turning them into tomorrow’s businesses. Keep yourself and your team innovating at Google I/O, returning to San Francisco’s Moscone Center from June 27th – 29th, 2012.

https://developers.google.com/events/io/input-output/

Input Output Google I O 2012

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mod_auth_openid v0.6 on Ubuntu 12.04 for AuthOpenIDAXRequire

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I believe the standard version of `mod_auth_openid` that comes with Ubuntun 12.04 precise pangolin is `v0.5`

This library is also known by the name `libapache2-mod-auth-openid`

Make sure you have apxs2 installed:

###Apache Extension Tools (apxs / apxs2)
apache extension tools apt-get install
sudo apt-get install apache2-threaded-dev

I didn’t have the time to finish editing this post to my liking, so I’m just adding my notes as-are:

###mod_auth_openid v0.6 on Ubuntu 12.04 with AuthOpenIDAXRequire

sudo apt-get install apache2-threaded-dev

###AuthOpenIDAXRequire schema email

http://openid.net/schema/namePerson/prefix
http://openid.net/schema/namePerson/first
http://openid.net/schema/namePerson/last
http://openid.net/schema/namePerson/middle
http://openid.net/schema/namePerson/suffix
http://openid.net/schema/namePerson/friendly
http://openid.net/schema/person/guid
http://openid.net/schema/birthDate/birthYear
http://openid.net/schema/birthDate/birthMonth
http://openid.net/schema/birthDate/birthday
http://openid.net/schema/gender
http://openid.net/schema/language/pref
http://openid.net/schema/contact/phone/default
http://openid.net/schema/contact/phone/home
http://openid.net/schema/contact/phone/business
http://openid.net/schema/contact/phone/cell
http://openid.net/schema/contact/phone/fax
http://openid.net/schema/contact/postaladdress/home
http://openid.net/schema/contact/postaladdressadditional/home
http://openid.net/schema/contact/city/home
http://openid.net/schema/contact/state/home
http://openid.net/schema/contact/country/home
http://openid.net/schema/contact/postalcode/home
http://openid.net/schema/contact/postaladdress/business
http://openid.net/schema/contact/postaladdressadditional/business
http://openid.net/schema/contact/city/business
http://openid.net/schema/contact/state/business
http://openid.net/schema/contact/country/business
http://openid.net/schema/contact/postalcode/business
http://openid.net/schema/contact/IM/default
http://openid.net/schema/contact/IM/AIM
http://openid.net/schema/contact/IM/ICQ
http://openid.net/schema/contact/IM/MSN
http://openid.net/schema/contact/IM/Yahoo
http://openid.net/schema/contact/IM/Jabber
http://openid.net/schema/contact/IM/Skype
http://openid.net/schema/contact/internet/email
http://openid.net/schema/contact/web/default
http://openid.net/schema/contact/web/blog
http://openid.net/schema/contact/web/Linkedin
http://openid.net/schema/contact/web/Amazon
http://openid.net/schema/contact/web/Flickr
http://openid.net/schema/contact/web/Delicious
http://openid.net/schema/company/name
http://openid.net/schema/company/title
http://openid.net/schema/media/spokenname
http://openid.net/schema/media/greeting/audio
http://openid.net/schema/media/greeting/video
http://openid.net/schema/media/biography
http://openid.net/schema/media/image
http://openid.net/schema/media/image/16×16
http://openid.net/schema/media/image/32×32
http://openid.net/schema/media/image/48×48
http://openid.net/schema/media/image/64×64
http://openid.net/schema/media/image/80×80
http://openid.net/schema/media/image/128×128
http://openid.net/schema/media/image/160×120
http://openid.net/schema/media/image/320×240
http://openid.net/schema/media/image/640×480
http://openid.net/schema/media/image/120×160
http://openid.net/schema/media/image/240×320
http://openid.net/schema/media/image/480×640
http://openid.net/schema/media/image/favicon
http://openid.net/schema/timezone

via http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7403536/list-of-available-attributes-for-http-axschema-org-and-http-schemas-openid-n

###changeset on openid auth schemas

http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/simpleid/changeset/459

###openid auth properties
http://openid.net/specs/openid-attribute-properties-list-1_0-01.html

###Introduction : The Apache OpenID Module
http://findingscience.com/mod_auth_openid/

AuthType OpenID
require valid-user

AuthOpenIDTrusted ^https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/ud
AuthOpenIDSingleIdP https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id
AuthOpenIDAXRequire email http://openid.net/schema/contact/email [email protected]
AuthOpenIDAXUsername email

via http://mmornati.tumblr.com/post/23559005172/apache-and-mod-auth-openid-on-f16-centos

###openid explained
http://openidexplained.com/use

###myopenid
https://www.myopenid.com

Using Mod_auth_openid With Ubuntu SSO
http://rtg.in.ua/blog/2011/11/modauthopenid-and-ubuntu-sso/

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:rye/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-auth-openid

apt-cache policy libapache2-mod-auth-openid
libapache2-mod-auth-openid:
Installed: 0.6-0ubuntu1
Candidate: 0.6-0ubuntu1

###Using Apache2’s mod_auth_openid…
http://hustoknow.blogspot.com/2012/05/setting-up-google-apps-single-sign-on.html

sudo apt-get install automake
sudo apt-get install autotools-dev
sudo apt-get install libtool
sudo apt-get install libtidy-dev
sudo apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev
sudo apt-get install libopkele-dev

./autogen.sh
./configure
make


LoadModule authopenid_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_auth_openid.so
AuthType OpenID
require valid-user

AuthOpenIDTrusted ^https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/ud
AuthOpenIDAXRequire email http://openid.net/schema/contact/email @yourgoogleappsdomain\.com
AuthOpenIDSingleIdP https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id
AuthOpenIDAXUsername email
AuthOpenIDSecureCookie Off # off for now

###Using Apache2’s mod_auth_openid…
http://engineering.hearsaysocial.com/using-apache2s-modauthopenid

###Ubuntu, install doesn’t find apxs
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5815638/ubuntu-install-doesnt-find-apxs
ubuntu apxs was not found
I believe that apxs is for apache 1 series. apxs2 is for apache 2 series

###Smooth Streaming Module for Apache
http://smoothstreaming.code-shop.com/trac/wiki/Mod-Smooth-Streaming-Apache
We will be using apxs2, the APache eXtenSion tool, to build and install the module for the Apache server.

Make sure you have apxs2 installed:
sudo apt-get install apache2-threaded-dev

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Meeting Tomorrow – thebluebook.com (scam)

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I recently received the following message from thebluebook.com after repeatedly requesting to be removed from their mailing list which I had repeatedly received unsolicited spam e-mails.

They are targeting small business owners, asking the business owners to pay them to join their network to have the potential of receiving work from “industry buyers”

Message:

> I’ll be in your area tomorrow Wednesday June, 13th. Can we get together for 20 minutes? I need qualified commercial sub-contractors in my network to service our industry buyers and I’d like to find out what you do and who you work for. Thanks!

—————–

Wayne Hall
Account Manager
The Blue Book Building and Construction Network
[email protected]
cell: (336) 991-7610
http://www.thebluebook.com

I strongly advise you to avoid thebluebook.com at all costs.

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Increase Priority for Influential Twitter Users

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One of the Rules / Macros on Desk.com is called “Increase Priority for Influential Twitter Users”

Increase Priority For Influential Twitter Users

The rule does basically what it says: if you have more than 5k followers on twitter you get higher priority support. I wonder how many companies that are using desk.com have this rule / filter enabled.

> ## Increase Priority for Influential Twitter Users
> IF ( Twitter User Followers Count greater than 5000 ) THEN Increment Case Priority

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Error: couldn’t connect to server 127.0.0.1 shell/mongo.js:84 – SOLVED

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Error Couldn T Connect To Server 127 0 0 1 Shell Mongo Js 84

I was having an issue on Mac OS X – this is probably because I installed it with `homebrew` a few months back and forgot about these instructions.

$mongodb

MongoDB shell version: 2.0.6
connecting to: test
Sat Jun 16 09:11:43
exception: connect failed

Error: couldn’t connect to server 127.0.0.1 shell/mongo.js:84

I search for a solution but didn’t easily find one, so I ended up uninstalling it and reinstalling it, which then gave me the very valuable notes below about where config files and data paths are stored on OSX, and also let me know that I needed to start the service if I wanted to use it.

Here are those notes:

###Downloading http://fastdl.mongodb.org/osx/mongodb-osx-x86_64-2.0.6.tgz
Already downloaded: /Users/me/Library/Caches/Homebrew/mongodb-2.0.6-x86_64.tgz

###Caveats
If this is your first install, automatically load on login with:

mkdir -p ~/Library/LaunchAgents
cp /usr/local/Cellar/mongodb/2.0.6-x86_64/homebrew.mxcl.mongodb.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents/
launchctl load -w ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.mongodb.plist

If this is an upgrade and you already have the homebrew.mxcl.mongodb.plist loaded:

launchctl unload -w ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.mongodb.plist
cp /usr/local/Cellar/mongodb/2.0.6-x86_64/homebrew.mxcl.mongodb.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents/
launchctl load -w ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.mongodb.plist

Or start it manually:

mongod run –config /usr/local/etc/mongod.conf

The launchctl plist above expects the config file to be at **`/usr/local/etc/mongod.conf`**

### Summary
/usr/local/Cellar/mongodb/2.0.6-x86_64: 18 files, 122M, built in 2 seconds

You might want to run `brew update` and `brew upgrade` to update / upgrade all of your homebrew packages, or `brew update` and `brew upgrade mongodb` to update mongodb to the latest version.

A few other notes if you’re using homebrew:

# updates the database of available software and what the latest
# available version for each is. run this before running other brew commands.

brew update

# upgrades all homebrew packages on the system. can also be used to
# just upgrade a specific package by specifying the package name

brew upgrade

# removes the specified package from your system

brew remove

# installs a specified package from your system

brew install

More notes about the brew command can be found at https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/wiki/The-brew-command

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Google is Down (June 2012)

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All of Google Services happen to be running extremely slow today, or are not running at all. It is almost as if Google’s servers are overloaded. Why is this? One possibility is that today is also the date WordPress 3.4 was released. WordPress is the fastest growing CMS platform in the world. It is widely adopted, and in this point release they have switched all of their javascript libraries and resources over to using resources that are google hosted, for example jQuery:

http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7/jquery.min.js

Other libraries include similar scripts and frameworks such as jQuery UI and the corresponding css. It is notable that google provides both HTTP and HTTPS / SSL versions of these resources.

Google also recently released an updated algorithm to enhance search results, and they are also going to be phasing out Google Product Search in favor of a marketplace where they will make commission and rank products higher based on bids (using the Adwords admin interface). Perhaps those things are also slowing down this giant.

Do you have another idea about why google is going so slow today? Leave a comment below!

Google Is So Slow

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Welcome to the Desk.com Family

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Hi,

I wanted to personally welcome you to the Desk.com family. This new sign at our office pretty much sums up our feelings about customers, and we’re thrilled to have you on board.

Desk.com is the social help desk for small business. We understand that you are working with more engaged, increasingly social customers. We know you need affordable, mobile, and easy-to-use ways to serve these customers.

Your new Desk.com account includes a free Full-Time Agent seat that you can use for as long as you want. You also get 30 days to use as much Desk.com as you want, entirely for free. You can even add everyone in your company for that awesome all-hands-support feeling.

We’re here for you, so please don’t hesitate to to contact us, especially if you need help getting started. You can personally reach me at [email protected]. Come on by our office, meet the team, meet the dogs, and maybe even take your own picture with our sign and we’ll add it to our blog.

Once again, thank you for choosing Desk.com, we look forward to helping you wow your customers!

Sincerely,

Alex Bard

 

Maybe I should have stood on the other side of the sign :-)

The Desk Com Family Welcome

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Welcome to Insightly!

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Insightly is a web based tool designed to organize your data and get things done more efficiently. From a single user to a busy and growing company.

Thanks for installing and trying out Insightly. This is just a quick note detailing how to navigate back to Insightly in future, and where to go for support.

When you want to get back to Insightly later you have a couple of options. You can use Google’s universal navigation in Gmail, Google Docs, Calendar etc. Insightly will be listed under the “More” section in the navigation bar at the top of the page, as shown below in Gmail. Don’t worry if it’s not there right now – it takes a few hours to appear.

Your other option you have is to type in the web address directly.

The direct web address for Insightly is:
http://googleapps.insight.ly

Remember: you can add additional users from your Google Apps domain to Insightly under ‘Settings’ by clicking on the small gear icon in the top right corner of the screen, then clicking on the Users link.

If you wish to lodge a support ticket, email [email protected] or go to http://support.insight.ly.

We also wrote a concepts guide to help those new to our integrated CRM and project management tool. Download the Insightly Concepts Guide PDF.

Thanks again for signing up. We know you’ll love it.

Insightly Welcome

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