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Re: Build Your Own Amazon Niche Store

GeekLad — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 07:22:44 -0000

It shouldn't be a problem at all. Try it out and let me know if you run
into any issues.

Re: 5 Reasons Google Wave Is Not Ready

GeekLad — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 01:09:32 -0000

I'm right there with you Gordon. I think you're spot on with the annoyances
you mentioned, as well as the way email integration should work. Being able
to receive @googlewave.com would be perfect, because then I we can just
forward all mail to that address and have all communication happen in one
place.

Re: 5 Reasons Google Wave Is Not Ready

GeekLad — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:24:30 -0000

I don't know that I would call it a resounding fail. Afterall, it is just a
preview. Assuming that preview is the equivalent to what everyone else
calls "alpha", it should eventually move into beta which should be much
better. When it does eventually get there, they will need to include
support for email in some fashion if they expect mass adoption.

The good news is that being a federated protocol, someone else may beat
Google to reverse compatibility and develop some kind of Wave client/service
that integrates both email and Wave.

Re: Free eBay Store and WordPress Plugin

GeekLad — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:08:05 -0000

You bet. Glad that at least it works w/ smart ads.

Re: Free eBay Store and WordPress Plugin

GeekLad — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:40:51 -0000

Perhaps if you simplify the code, you can isolate the issue. How about if
you just try [ebay campaignid="YOUR-CAMPAIGN-ID"
keywords="YOUR-STORE-KEYWORDS"] and replace YOUR-CAMPAIGN-ID and
YOUR-STORE-KEYWORDS appropriately. Does it still break?

Re: Free eBay Store and WordPress Plugin

GeekLad — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:33:14 -0000

That's bizarre. I'll have to try it out on another WordPress 2.8.5 blog I haven't yet installed it on and see if I get the same issue.

Re: Free eBay Store and WordPress Plugin

GeekLad — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:22:26 -0000

It sounds like you're using the visual editor, so that may be the problem.
Try clicking the HTML tab and then adding the code.

Re: Free eBay Store and WordPress Plugin

GeekLad — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:42:27 -0000

When you save the article/page and re-open, the brackets are converted to
braces? Are you using some kind of article editing plugin perhaps?

Re: Free eBay Store and WordPress Plugin

GeekLad — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:44:16 -0000

That's odd, I haven't seen WordPress change square brackets to curly braces.
What version of WordPress are you using?

Re: Make and Receive Free Telephone Calls on the Internet

GeekLad — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:34:23 -0000

Very odd... Yeah, the IPkall wait period was why I went about using Gizmo.
Well, I'm glad you got it working!

Re: Make and Receive Free Telephone Calls on the Internet

GeekLad — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:36:09 -0000

Yeah, the PBX in a Flash forum may be of better help than I have been.
Sorry I wasn't able to help you out. If you do finally find a fix in the
PIAF forums, please feel free to post the solution here. Best of luck!

Re: Make and Receive Free Telephone Calls on the Internet

GeekLad — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:51:53 -0000

Something else you can try, is to go into the General Settings screen and
setting Allow Anonymous Inbound SIP Calls? to yes. This could potentially
have security implications (for example, if you have an IVR). I'm somewhat
of an Asterisk noobie myself, so use this feature with caution.

It may be a good way to test things out to see if the box is indeed
receiving the calls. Ultimately, I think you want to get things set up
properly with the trunks, routes, and extensions so that you are able to
properly receive calls without having to set that option. I'm still a bit
fuzzy on setting these things up the right way, which is why I turned to
Orgasmatron since he already had all the trunks, routes, and extensions all
set up.

I'm still puzzled as to why it isn't working for you though. Everything
should be all set w/ the trunks, routes, and extensions so it shouldn't be
necessary to open up the system to anonymous inbound SIP calls.

Re: Make and Receive Free Telephone Calls on the Internet

GeekLad — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 07:10:35 -0000

I would check the Asterisk call logs to see if the calls are coming in at
all. Just click on the Reports tab at the top of the FreePBX administration
window. If Gizmo5 is forwarding properly, you should see entries being
added to the call log. If not, then the problem is either with the router
port forwarding or with the Gizmo5 forwarding.

I've messed it up a few times on the Gizmo5 forwarding, because I would
click the SIP radio button but forgot to click on the Forwarding All Calls
radio button.

Re: Free eBay Store and WordPress Plugin

GeekLad — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:03:45 -0000

If you set it up for pagination and page through them, you should see older auctions. I don't know that there's really any any other way around this at this time. I may have to add in a sort parameter to show the newest auctions.

Re: Free eBay Store and WordPress Plugin

GeekLad — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 17:47:04 -0000

I still haven't added support for UK and other countries, but I will be
soon.

Re: Disqus vs. Intense Debate

GeekLad — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:32:50 -0000

I'm not sure if JK-kit was around back when I went with Disqus. I've been
using Disqus for some time. If it was around, it was not as prominent as
Disqus and IntenseDebate were.

Re: 5 Reasons Google Wave Is Not Ready

GeekLad — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:39:23 -0000

They could probably do a bit better than just bringing a gmail inbox into it (although that would be a start). I envision that yourlogin@googlewave.com would actually behave as an email address. Emails could just appear in your inbox just as any other wave does, and you respond by adding response blips.

The big differences would be that of course there would be no real-time interaction, and you wouldn't be able to edit blips, only add new ones. I suppose some provisions can be made for editing blips. When the wave user modifies a blip, the email user could receive an email with the modifications. But of course, the email user will not be able to modify the wave.

Re: 5 Reasons Google Wave Is Not Ready

GeekLad — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:13:29 -0000

Thanks for the link Mark. We do seem to share some of the same thoughts,
particularly on the lack of email integration. I think you're spot-on in
stating that lack of email integration is going to be a major roadblock for
mass adoption.

Re: 5 Reasons Google Wave Is Not Ready

GeekLad — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:50:41 -0000

It would be great if Google Wave were to implement all the access features
mentioned in this article. But at a minimum, you need to be able to set
read-only/read-write permissions and the ability to remove people from a
wave. That would allow Wave users to moderate and remove any individuals
that are a nuisance with sabotage, graffiti, spam, etc. Combine that with
better contact management groups, and revision control, and you've got a
pretty solid real-time collaborative platform.

I still do believe that it needs a two-way interface with email, to gain
wide acceptance and usage. A lot of people will take the stance that "email
ain't broke so don't fix it." It will take backward compatability for such
individuals to even consider using it.

It may not be necessary for someone like you or me that accepts, embraces,
and utilizes new technologies with little issue. Unfortunately, there are a
lot of folks out there that need to be eased into it. They require
facilitation with the transition in the form of "legacy support." Besides,
it is difficult to deny that it would be very convenient to use email and
wave all in the same place.

Re: 5 Reasons Google Wave Is Not Ready

GeekLad — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 09:52:35 -0000

I think you're right in that version control and email support can be
implemented via bots. I actually started trying to implement my own "Undo
Bot", but did not succeed. It requires duplicating the entire wave
structure each time a blip is added/modified and storing it somewhere. It
was a bit more involved than I had initially anticipated, so I stopped
trying to develop it. Hopefully someone much smarter than me will figure it
out.

The contact management really needs work though as does access control. Let
me give you an example. Say you work together on a collaborative website
with 9 other people. All 10 of you are essentially contractors for the
website owner, and you get paid for content. The 10 of you write many waves
with secret information that is only to be shared between the 10 of you.

First of all, if you want to start a new wave with everyone in the group, it
is a major pain. You need to pick and choose the other 9 people and add
them to the wave. You may forget someone and they miss out on important
info. You may accidentally add someone you shouldn't have, and there's no
way you can remove them.

Another situation you may run into is that bad things can happen if someone
leaves the team. That person will remain on all the waves with everyone
else, and there's no way to remove him or her. Plus, without access
control, he or she can sabotage the waves, invite others that should not be
invited, make them public when they should not, etc...

Certainly using a hosted solution with the federated service would resolve
the access control issues, as you stated. But if anyone is to use Google
Wave as their client, I think it would be best if some of these features
were implemented, particularly for public waves.

Some of the public waves in Google Wave have been experiencing a lot of pain
due to the lack of access control. Because anyone can join and do anything
they want to the wave, bad things happen. Of course, even if they do not
implement access control, some form of revision control would alleviate some
the pain. It would at least allow reverting to a prior version before the
bad things happened.

Sorry, I have no more invites to give out. :(

Re: Make Cross-Domain AJAX Requests with xdRequest

GeekLad — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 09:32:07 -0000

The YQL servers will see the IP of the client. The remote site will see the
IP of the YQL servers. YQL also does pass along some headers that include
information about the client (for example, a header called X-Forwarded-For
that contains the IP address of the client).

Because of the security measures enforced by browsers, the only way you can
make remote requests 100% within a client is with services that provide an
API that provide JASONP responses. Otherwise, you have to use some sort of
proxy that will fetch the data for you and provide a JSONP response, as YQL
does. I think YQL is the best solution I've seen out there for doing this.

Re: Make Cross-Domain AJAX Requests with xdRequest

GeekLad — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 18:43:35 -0000

Thanks for the kind words. Please be aware that the possibility of getting
blacklisted still exists. The requests are made via dynamically inserted
scripts to the YQL servers. YQL servers make the requests to the remote
pages and then send the data back to the client, so it is possible that some
servers may blacklist the YQL servers. YQL also provides an opt-out option
for content providers: http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/provider/

Re: Make Cross-Domain AJAX Requests with xdRequest

GeekLad — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:17:37 -0000

I'd be more than glad to add you to the project. Welcome aboard! :-D

Re: WordPress PageRank Widget Plugin

GeekLad — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 07:10:30 -0000

Agreed. Some of my pages are top-ranking for some queries, with little more
than a 0 PR.

Re: Keep Track of New Television Show Episodes with RerunCheck

GeekLad — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:06:18 -0000

Unfortunately it's not quite as easy as just subtracting the time. It would work for central, but the Pacific and Mountain times differ. I'm not sure how standard their air-times are with ours (i.e. if it is always the case where a 9pm Eastern show will be 9pm Mountain). You wouldn't happen to know if this is the case, would you?

I do need to get around to writing some code to update the air times. I think the current air times are simply what they were when I first created RerunCheck. I have seen two-hour specials throw things a bit off, but you're right, I do need to update the air times.