Disqus - Latest Comments for bgolub

Re: Very disappointed with Sprint - Benjamin Golub

bgolub — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:44:35 -0000

The plan is great but the phones that it works on are very disappointing.
Sure I have unlimited data but it's difficult to use. I doubt my plan is the
reason Sprint is in trouble; it was only available for a small period of
time to people referred by a Sprint employee. If it were a problem they'd
have no issue with me dropping my contract (or they would have done it for
me already).

Re: test - Benjamin Golub

bgolub — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:19:00 -0000

I found it via a Google alert for my name :)

TagHandler probably doesn't work because you haven't made an index for filtering on tag. Here is my index.yaml:


indexes:

- kind: Entry
  properties:
  - name: published
    direction: desc

- kind: Entry
  properties:
  - name: tags
  - name: published
    direction: desc

Re: test - Benjamin Golub

bgolub — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 07:27:35 -0000

Thanks for grabbing my code and running this blog...but could you change it to not use my name? Towards the bottom of blog.py change "blog_author" and "blog_title" to your name/title.

You'll also want to change the Disqus code to not be running as mine and fix some links to not point to my Facebook/Flickr/FriendFeed.

Thanks!

Re: Western Digital launches revamped WD TV media player for TV

bgolub — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:11:27 -0000

I have mine wired to my router which is wired to my NAS but it also supports
USB wireless adapters if you need.

Re: Western Digital launches revamped WD TV media player for TV

bgolub — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:44:15 -0000

I got one over the weekend. I also had the original one but this is much nicer. Obviously the biggest improvement is it can access media over your network (mine is connected to a My Book World Edition) but it also feels a lot quicker.

It'll also do slideshows of my Flickr photos

Re: I'm more loyal to Mint: Goodbye Charter One / Citizens Bank, hello USAA - Benjamin Golub

bgolub — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 12:52:37 -0000

I used the iPhone app the other day. Very convenient.

Re: OAuth for Dummies | Mark.

bgolub — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 20:53:31 -0000

Very well written Mark. I like that you took a look at OAuth from various levels. I agree that documentation on OAuth is scarce and mostly useless; we had a hard time documenting it at FriendFeed and opted to just provide an example application instead.

Everyone should take a look at Google's OAuth Playground: http://googlecodesamples.com/oauth_playground/. I found it useful when first learning OAuth.

Re: Remove trailing slash on App Engine - Benjamin Golub's Blog

bgolub — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 20:56:03 -0000

If everything inherits from BaseRequestHandler and all patterns end in /?
then you don't need that. Take a look at my blog's code for how this works:
http://github.com/bgolub/blog/blob/master/main.py

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/07/pubsubhubbub-real-time-feeds-and-real.html

bgolub — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 08:55:56 -0000

Things got even faster recently thanks to Brett (from Google) implementing some extra security and Bret (from FriendFeed) utilizing that security. We used to have to re-crawl your feed after receiving the ping from the hub, which takes a few extra seconds, but now we can instantly publish.

Read more here: http://friendfeed.com/bret/90fb30ef/thanks-to-b...

Re: Dropping FriendFeed (For Now): WTF?

bgolub — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:01:55 -0000

Also the difference between "Check 'Cc Twitter' box by default" and "Post my FriendFeed entries on Twitter by default" is the following: "Check 'Cc Twitter' box by default" means when I go to http://friendfeed.com/ the 'Cc Twitter' box is checked by default.

"Post my FriendFeed entries on Twitter by default" means *imported* entries (like those from your blog, Facebook, etc.) are automatically sent to Twitter.

So the "Cc Twitter" box is for when you create an entry *on* FriendFeed and the other setting is for when entries are imported *into* FriendFeed.

Finally you can check "Link to source site instead of FriendFeed conversation" to cause the link to go to the final destination instead of FriendFeed.

But the fact that it was this confusing means we (I work at FriendFeed) have some work to do to make this easier. Hope I could help!

Re: Dropping FriendFeed (For Now): WTF?

bgolub — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:55:23 -0000

You are getting duplicate posts on Twitter because you have the Twitter checkbox checked on "Post entries from". Select "All services (except Twitter)" to not cause the loopback.

Re: Join us (virtually) for Monday’s Apple keynote

bgolub — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 10:46:27 -0000

You can also embed it on venturebeat.com using http://friendfeed.com/apple-wwdc-2009/embed and an iframe.

Re: Gmail is My FriendFeed Client

bgolub — Thu, 28 May 2009 09:29:37 -0000

http://mail.google.com/mail/#search/is%3Amuted is also a good way to see your muted emails. Hitting "m" again doesn't unmute for me. I have to move it to the inbox to unmute things.

Re: Multiple comment threads per page

bgolub — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 11:28:55 -0000

Yeah I had it working on RSSmeme (http://blog.disqus.net/2008/03/06/dynamically-s...) and it actually worked for a while but the HTML emitted by reply.js was modified and it left RSSmeme looking kind of ugly. Instead of fixing the CSS I just went back to the "official" method of integration.

Re: louisgray.com: I Fear I Can Only Burn the Candle From One End Now

bgolub — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 20:45:49 -0000

I'm up at 7 and in bed by 11 nearly every day.

Re: How To: Dynamic Slide Down Disqus Comments

bgolub — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 11:56:52 -0000

One easy way to fix it would be to just empty all other Disqus iframes when
you open one; essentially only let one disqus thread be expanded at a time.

Re: Google apologizes for killing Bambi’s mom

bgolub — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 21:28:29 -0000

I live about 25 minutes from Rush, NY; we do get a lot of deer around here.

Re: BuddyFeed, a Native FriendFeed Client | Mark.

bgolub — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 11:27:49 -0000

Actually you can subscribe/unsubscribe from within fftogo. Great work Robin!

Re: 2000 Chevrolet Cavalier Z24 for sale

bgolub — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 08:55:14 -0000

$1500.

Re: Mobility - Reading FriendFeed via Google Reader

bgolub — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 01:17:17 -0000

Also, fftogo does produce Atom feeds. How does this work for you: http://www.fftogo.com/ontarioemperor/friends/?o....

Re: Mobility - Reading FriendFeed via Google Reader

bgolub — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 01:07:05 -0000

I just pushed a change to support FriendFeed URLs in fftogo with titles in them. IE: http://fftogo.com/e/d1e14f30-15fd-43aa-9963-306...

Re: SUP WordPress?

bgolub — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 13:58:15 -0000

FeedBurner is definitely stripping the SUP link/header: http://friendfeed.com/api/feedtest?url=http://f...

Re: FriendFeed says ‘SUP to a number of new services

bgolub — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:36:03 -0000

We also have a video on Youtube demonstrating how fast SUP is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMXU5N6TfS0. That uses my open-source blog (http://github.com/bgolub/blog/tree/master) and FriendFeed's public SUP feed.

Re: louisgray.com: Is There a Get Out of MobileMe Free Card?

bgolub — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 10:59:58 -0000

When we first got broadband I attempted to convince my mother that using her @adelphia.com email address across the web was a terrible idea as we'd eventually switch providers. Then my grandparents got dialup and I tried to explain the same thing. Now I have both of them on Gmail because, sure enough, they switched providers and came to me asking for help.

Switching away from a email address that you *pay* for is extremely difficult. At least with a phone number you can usually port to a new provider; you cannot do that with email. Migration will be extremely difficult for you but I'd recommend you setup louisgray.com with Google Apps for your Domain and being forwarding email from @mac.com to @louisgray.com immediately. Start only sending mail from @louisgray.com and eventually 99% of your contacts will switch over but it will probably take months. You will never hit 100%.

In the future moving away from Google Apps will be simple because you control the DNS for louisgray.com. Point it at whatever is the next hot free hosted email solution and your contacts won't notice a thing.

Updating your services will be annoying but not terrible. Consider the fact that you'll be forwarding @mac.com to @louisgray.com for months it'll give you plenty of time to move everything over.

As far as the extra services that MobileMe provides: if you want don't get rid of MobileMe. Just stop using it for email and forward it all to @louisgray.com. It'll cost you the same amount of money you're spending now since Google Apps is free.

Importing previous mail is also simple. Gmail can do this for you out of the box. You give Gmail your credentials and it uses POP3 to download your messages. It is how I migrated my @gmail.com emails to my @benjamingolub.com account. It took a few days but it worked.

Here's how I got everything switched to @benjamingolub.com: first I used hotmail, then yahoo. Then I went to CWRU and used @cwru.edu through IMAP. Then I switched to Gmail and finally Google Apps for your Domain. CWRU forwards (guaranteed for life) to @benjamingolub.com. Gmail forwards to @benjamingolub.com. I reply to all contacts from @benjamingolub.com so they eventually forget about my old email addresses and realize that I always reply from @benjamingolub.com.

Re: An image processing web service (Scripting News)

bgolub — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:12:35 -0000

This doesn't solve your issue with running it on the same machine but you could build your own using App Engine: http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/images/us...

Getting something lightweight that simply accepts a POST containing an image and returns a thumbnail should be trivial.