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Here are all of the business cards that I entered into Card Munch to be automatically entered into LinkedIn. It took less than an hour - cool!  P.S - sorry for the spam if one of these cards is yours :) Zoom Image

Here are all of the business cards that I entered into Card Munch to be automatically entered into LinkedIn. It took less than an hour - cool! P.S - sorry for the spam if one of these cards is yours :)

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About your Advertising Manage Version 3.4.19...
how do I make it add an AD below my posts?

Oh yes and your url on the plugin gives a 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable error

Asked by raven2099

raven2099 - thanks for the query.  I am no longer supporting Advertising Manager.  OpenX still supports it I believe.  You may want to try their forums or twitter to get an answer.

Sorry I cannot be more helpful!

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OpenX vs Oyster.com smackdown

OpenX logo:

OpenX logo

Oyster.com logo:

Ours looks better :)

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New office dress policy - “country club casual” meets “night club casual” (Taken with Instagram at FirstMark Capital) Zoom Image

New office dress policy - “country club casual” meets “night club casual” (Taken with Instagram at FirstMark Capital)

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Vermont first state with single payer healthcare system

I spent six months with Jay looking at the existing healthcare insurance landscape, and we agreed that a watered down national healthcare bill will not be effective reform.  A single payer system is a proven model, and a state run single payer system is a great start.  Hopefully more states will take the lead here and remove healthcare insurance state by state.

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History revisited: Google/Android 2011 vs. Microsoft/Windows 1995

This article about how Google is using ‘Android Compatibility’ as a tool to dissuade manufacturers from using Google competitors is just like what Microsoft did in the nineties to encourage their OEMs to use Microsoft preferred browsers, ISP’s etc.

Hopefully I am wrong, but it seems like that this behavior is the beginning of the end of innovation for them - kinda like what happened to Microsoft 15 years ago.

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Ecommerce and Document Databases

In this blog post, MongoDB gives a  high level overview on how document databases are particularly suited to ecommerce (as well as analytics).  There are a few people who are using MongoDB for ecommerce, and I think that this is one area where document databases will perform well.

There is yet to be an open source ecommerce application which uses a document database (to my knowledge).  Perhaps the start could be for Mongo, Apache, or some other open source project to release a the document equivalent to a ‘reference schema’ for an ecommerce application.

There is some work being done on the Vespolina project (which uses MongoDB and Symfony2) here:

https://github.com/vespolina/vespolina

It would be great to hear from people about other efforts!

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Re: Why I'll remember May 2, 2011

Redditor describes how Americans were ‘celebrating in the streets’ upon news of Osama Bin Laden’s death.  I had a similar feeling as the poster - however, my disgust was toward news stations who manufactured this silly reaction.  I don’t (refuse to) believe that celebration was on many of US people’s minds.

I spent time reflecting on our actions before the event, how a group like Al Qaeda could exist in the first place, whether our reaction was appropriate, and whether silly images of people celebrating provides any closure to families of those directly affected by the bombings.

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Faces of the OpenX Community

Here are the photos of 2,130 people who have used OpenX for their job!

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Magento Connect Manager Requires Write Permissions to All Folders

This is what I get when I try to install a Magento Extension:

Error: Please check for sufficient write file permissions

Your Magento folder does not have sufficient write permissions, which this web based downloader requires.

If you wish to proceed downloading Magento packages online, please set all Magento folders to have writable permission for the web server user (example: apache) and press the “Refresh” button to try again.

So, in order for Magento to be able to install extensions, all files and folders need to be writable by the web server user.  This seems to be a very risky solution for an application that has access to a payment gateway.

Surely there can be a more surgical approach to permissions - for example, I imagine most extensions work with just the following folders made writable:

  • app/code/community
  • app/etc/modules
  • app/design/adminhtml/default/default/template
  • app/locale

I am sure that a security audit on a Magento system will fail with this policy.  Hopefully, with the new Magento Connect Manager (v2.0), extensions will not compromise the security of the application.

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