I have an open source project on CodePlex. Today I went to "Edit Project Summary & Details" page to make some modification. I noticed a new check box "Use Advertisements from The Lounge".
I just wonder if anyone takes advantage of display ads on CodePlex?
How does it works?
There are currently about 1000 projects on CodePlex that have turned on the advertisements from The Lounge. As soon as you turn on the checkbox, the ads immediately start showing up on your project. You can choose to donate the proceeds to charity (through the second check box), or have the money sent to you. To have the ad money sent to you then you contact The Lounge and provide them with your information.
I have been a member of CodePlex for a quite a few months now and enjoy their hosting/publishing service (check out my project). Nevertheless, when things come to making money from the Lounge Ads, the process is very-very annoying and time-consuming. At least in my experience. I have sent and received countless emails trying to set up my account with no avail. Their response time is usually late for several days if not a week and their finance team seems to comprise of only one person. Somehow, customer emails "slip through the crack."
Anyhow, best of luck to both of us.
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Someone recently bought an annual/lifetime subscription from them this year, share the experience here if it worked, because I can't get in touch with them anywhere.
Well, I bought a lifetime all template license last year in october. When I bought it, there were no account creation, and the website stated "it's a lifetime access for $99"
But recently, they changed their policy and now people who paid the $99 all template don't have access to templates anymore. On the support forum they ask you to log into your account (and of course you don't have one since there were no account creation when buying the licence), then they tell you to create an account with the same email you bought the licence. But when you follow those steps and check your new account, you can see "no purchase history" in teh dashboard.
Check that thread to understand the problem https://forums.colorlib.com/t/all-templates-license-no-more-access/27710
Colorlib is a scam
Received an email from someone claiming to be Amazon support that links to a script.google.com/macros page. I visiting it on Android without realizing what it was and wanted to see if there was a place to report the script and view what information it gathered.
I spent a good 30 minutes trying to find a place in google to get support on this issue and could not find any other than asking technical support here so I figured I would try making a post.
Perhaps you can try this page:
"Thank you for helping us keep the web safe from phishing sites. If you
believe you've encountered a page designed to look like another page
in an attempt to steal users' personal information, please complete
the form below to report the page to the Google Safe Browsing team."
https://safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish/?hl=en
As an example if I have a small group of people at a college and I want to create a chat room application which each user can download and then open to view list of all available users to talk to and click one of the users in a list then a window pops and any text you enter goes to that specific person. How can I make this? I have made a chatroom using AJAX and html etc but I have never done a chatroom for a network such as the one you have in schools or work places. What language would I need? All help is appreciated since I am total new to this.
I read something on internet about winsock connections but there wasn't much I could find.
You can use sockets for network programming in java.
Look at this Deitel's tutorial about a java messenger application.
http://www.deitel.com/books/jhtp7/DeitelMessenger.pdf
I developed a Chrome extension called TabCarousel to help monitor information like our NewRelic graphs. After realizing other people might find it useful, I decided to open source it and then release it on the Chrome Web Store.
I'm really impressed with how easy it is to release code on the Web Store, but... even a couple days after the extension has been released, I still show " users" and " weekly installs" rather than something like "7 users" and "10 weekly installs". I know I've set my extension up on a few computers, and I've helped others set it up as well. A few friends have installed it too.
Why doesn't the Chrome Web Store show any users or installations? It's not showing any data at all -- that is, " users" instead of "0 users".
Am I just missing something? I've read through the FAQ, some blog posts, and even set up a Google Analytics account and entered it in the Developer Dashboard entry for my extension. I just want to get an idea of how many downloads I'm getting so I can gauge interest like I can on other projects.
This is actually a bug, and the team are in the process of preparing a fix and getting it pushed live. I don't have an exact ETA, but it should be pretty soon.
On another note, you can still use your Google Analytics accounts to detect traffic to your landing page and in your app. And if you look for the referrer chrome://newtab you will get a very good indication of all the users who are launching your app.
Just give it few days, they don't update counters in WebStore too often. Currently it doesn't show users for any extension submitted after June 15, and yours was submitted on June 19.
Is there a way to get a user's achievements list from Xbox without dealing with screen scraping etc.?
How do sites like http://www.trueachievements.com do it? (they're definitely not screen scraping as they do not have my Live ID credentials...)
I know there's the Xbox LIVE Community Developer Program (XCDP) that provides some API but they do not provide achievements information as far as I can tell (links below)
http://duncanmackenzie.net/Blog/put-up-a-rest-api-for-xbox-gamertag-data
http://file-pasta.com/file/XML_Feeds.pdf
If you want this information you can check out my new site https://xboxapi.com.
Again if your profile is public then you can see friends, games and achievements. This has taken me over a year (on and off) to code and is now in public beta. To date it has served nearly 2,000 requests and growing. I am still working on optimising this script and it should only get better in time.
I currently have an API request limit setup for 120 requests per hour per IP.
Lets hope there are no major updates to xbox.com any time soon.
It says at the bottom of the TrueAchievements website that they are a member of the Xbox LIVE Community Developer Program. That leads me to believe that the XCDP does give information about achievements. Duncan Mackenzie's API for xbox worked for me for a little while, but then his web service seemed to go offline. Duncan also says that his web service will not be returning sadly. I can't get ahold of him to ask for release of his source code. I'm currently looking for another solution in retrieving the data. Unless I can get official access with XCDP, it looks like I'll have to do screen scraping. The screen scraping approach is not going to be pretty though. I'll let you know if I get any more information.
The current XCDP API does not give you any individual achievement information. At the moment the only way to get achievements is by page scraping and as of a couple months ago Microsoft has removed their non-JS log in form for xbox.com making it very difficult to log in. TA has found a way to get around this but he's trying to monopolize the scene and isn't willing to help others on this topic.
Even though TA does not have your LIVE credentials if your xbox.com page is public and if you give them your gamertag anyone can get your information by going to http://live.xbox.com/en-US/GameCenter?compareTo=GAMERTAGHERE
With the change the Microsoft has done they've also modified achievement icons. If you're looking at a friends profile and if you don't have the game or have unlocked the achievement the icon will be monochromatic even if it's unlocked by that person.