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Syncing Django users with Google Apps without monkeypatching

I am writing a Django app, and I would like an account to be created on our Google Apps hosted email using the Provisioning API whenever an account is created locally. I would solely use signals, but since I would like the passwords to be synchronized across sites, I have monkeypatched User.objects.create_user and User.set_password usin...

What are possible causes of a sudden drop in google serps for some (not all) queries?

A site I manage has seen a sudden drop in visits from google. It used to have about 300-500 daily visits until a week ago. They were 10% from a strong, competitive query; 80% were long tail queries. Now I lost both, and visits dropped by 90%. I still have There were no changes on the site for the last 3 months, and all changes since l...

Refresh a Div that has a Google ad inside it

Hello all, I have a div that holds a google ad. My website is mostly AJAX and there is no need for a browser refresh. That means my ads will not refresh either, which isnt ideal, a user staring at one ad all day. So I wanted a way to refresh a particular div on a page. I found many solutions but they didnt work. For example, using JQu...

Is there a link to the "latest" jquery library on Google APIs?

I use the following for a jquery link in my <script> tags: http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.2.6/jquery.js Just wondered if anyone had discovered whether there's a link to the "latest" version: Something like the following (which doesn't work): http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/latest/jquery.js (Obviously not...

Any problems/disadvantages hosting jQuery at Google?

I heard that some people where having problems accessing their sites which get their jQuery from Google since their corporate firewall didn't like sites getting code from other sites, i.e. cross-site scripting? Has anyone run into problem such as this? ...

How does Google Books find text regions?

One challenging topic in computer vision is processing document scans. Typically this involves a number of steps, like noise removal, color analysis, binarization, text block identification, OCR, and then maybe some context analysis and correction. I'm curious if anyone understands, knows or can point me to literature on how Google i...

Google Interview Questions

I am preparing for an interview with Google (Mountain View) I was wondering if anybody could share some of the questions and experiences. I have been told that they ask both brain teasers and coding/algorithm questions this time ...

GSA Wrapper in java?

Hello, Does anybody knows a good wrapper implementation for Google Search Appliance? ...

Google's V8 Javascript Engine in .Net?

Has anyone been able to do this? ...

Google Android platform financially interesting already?

Good afternoon, with all the buzz around the iPhone / AppStore etc, I felt it to be a no-brainer to create a nice iPhone application for the web-application I've been putting together, but how's your experience with the Android Platform so far - is it interesting already from a sales & user-volume? I've had a quick look at the T-Mobile...

Coding Test - allow use of web?

During hiring a .NET web developer I give the candidate a coding test. I tend to limit the candidate to MSDN installed on the test server - I think it holds everything the candidate needs to complete the task. I admit, this is not the normal case as I don't expect the candidate to do his work without use of the web. On the other ha...

How do I disable downlevel rendering in ASP.NET?

How do I disable downlevel rendering of my ASP.NET 2.0 site? I have a single master-page that all the other pages inherit from, and do not want "downlevel"-versions of the server-controls to be sendt to Google and W3C-validators. The best thing would be if this feature could be disabled for all users on all pages on my site. ...

AuthSub/OAuth, ASP.NET and Google API

I have an Idea for a simple webApp that would cross-link information from Evernote to Google Calendar. I was able to find a good Evernote Quickstart project but I am now searching for something to start with to begins accessing Calendar. Please advise if you know any good resources with code samples that would show me how to do the dirty...

Can someone explain the output of this program?

Can someone please explain why this program outputs 0x00000004? class AndAssignment { static void Main() { int a = 0x0c; a &= 0x06; Console.WriteLine("0x{0:x8}", a); } } /* Output: 0x00000004 */ ...

Would you recommend Google Protocol Buffers or Caucho Hessian for a cross-language over-the-wire binary format?

Would you recommend Google Protocol Buffers or Caucho Hessian for a cross-language over-the-wire binary format? Or anything else, for that matter - Facebook Thrift for example? ...

Why am I getting a (401) Unauthorized Error in Google Calendar API

Ive been playing around with the Google Calendar API and am getting stuck on something. When i call this below to delete a calendar event it works fine on the first pass and usually the second. However, around the 2nd or 3rd time I call this method I get a (401) Unauthorized error. It uses the same credentials every time. If I get th...

Is Caja ready for production?

We're looking for a way to secure third party code within our web pages. Someone suggested we use Caja. I looked into that, but the information about it is quite sparse. Before I deep dive into it, I would first like to know: Can Caja handle embedded HTML like Google Map's, which effectively acts as a bootstrap, and loads all the activ...

Getting a Google API Account

What URL can I visit to get myself a Google API Account? While sites point to http://www.google.com/apis and talk of "easy steps", I just can't figure it out. Background: There are places on the web that offer google services if you give them your Google API account key (in my case http://www.freesitemapgenerator.com and index retriev...

How to make Google Adsense load last after the rest of page

I have a page with Google Adsense ads. Content is to the left and ads are to the right. When the page is downloading it retrieves the content first and then start with the Google Adsense ads. During that time the rest of the page (footer images) is not fetched until the whole ad is completely downloaded. How can I make all of my page (...

How to index and search subversion repository

I have access to a very large code base stored in a subversion repository. I would like to be able to perform Google type searched on the code base. I have done this before when I have access to the server by creating a network share and using Google desktop. I currently do not have access to this subversion server box. Any Ideas? ...