Re: [google-appengine] Apps For Domains is a MAJOR failing of AppEngine
In case any of you were following along, the google docs team found a workaround for the viewer not liking .docx files: Begin forwarded message: From: googleappeng...@googlecode.com Subject: Re: Issue 5956 in googleappengine: Google Apps Viewer will not show .docx files served from blobstore Date: September 23, 2011 7:04:12 PM EDT To: joshuaesm...@charter.net Reply-To: codesite-nore...@google.com Comment #3 on issue 5956 by slang...@google.com: Google Apps Viewer will not show .docx files served from blobstore http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=5956 Viewer team has found the root cause and will work on a fix. In the meantime they have provided advice on a workaround. Append the filetype extension as an escaped query param in their download url that they pass to us. E.g., %26.docx for docx -- You received this message because you starred the issue. You may adjust your notification preferences at: https://code.google.com/hosting/settings On Sep 22, 2011, at 5:41 PM, Stuart Langley wrote: I'll point it at the right people. Thanks. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Google App Engine group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-appengine/-/_3RPsFgBeNoJ. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Google App Engine group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
Re: [google-appengine] Apps For Domains is a MAJOR failing of AppEngine
Done: Issue 5956 This is really a google apps issue, not a GAE issue, which is why I didn't put it in the tracker before. Is there a google apps issue tracker? I couldn't find one. On Sep 20, 2011, at 6:34 PM, Stuart Langley wrote: Joshua, If you have not already, can you file an issue in the tracker for viewer not working with .docx files served from blobstore? Thanks, Stuart -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Google App Engine group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-appengine/-/9YR-XXW2vdEJ. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Google App Engine group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
Re: [google-appengine] Apps For Domains is a MAJOR failing of AppEngine
I'll point it at the right people. Thanks. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Google App Engine group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-appengine/-/_3RPsFgBeNoJ. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
Re: [google-appengine] Apps For Domains is a MAJOR failing of AppEngine
Joshua, If you have not already, can you file an issue in the tracker for viewer not working with .docx files served from blobstore? Thanks, Stuart -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Google App Engine group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-appengine/-/9YR-XXW2vdEJ. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
Re: [google-appengine] Apps For Domains is a MAJOR failing of AppEngine
Greg, While you have them on the phone, please ask them to figure out why the viewer doesn't work with blobstore-served .docx files like this one: https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A//www.mytowngovernment.org/download%3Fdocument%3Dag50b3duZ292ZXJubWVudHIVCxINRG9jdW1lbnRNb2RlbBiEh1EM But it works if you download the .docx files and upload it back to the viewer: http://www.mytowngovernment.org/download?document=ag50b3duZ292ZXJubWVudHIVCxINRG9jdW1lbnRNb2RlbBiEh1EM On Sep 19, 2011, at 8:57 PM, Gregory D'alesandre wrote: Well it is the right place to rant in so far as we do depend on Apps for Domains and I can pass this feedback along internally to ensure they understand the external perception. Thanks for the feedback, I'll make sure it gets to the right folks... Greg On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 5:46 PM, Jeff Schnitzer j...@infohazard.org wrote: On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 5:45 PM, Jeff Schnitzer j...@infohazard.org wrote: I'd like to give a huge +1 to this. The Google Apps system is a trainwreck. I made the terrible mistake of moving some of my personal domains to Google Apps and now: * I'm in some sort of Catch-22 that locks me out of my adwords account. Not a big deal (it wasn't important) but I can't create a new adwords account (seriously, not even by creating new Google Accounts) and I can't delete the old one. I like to think I'm a smart guy, but this is worse than one of those chinese puzzles because I'm not 100% certain there is a solution. Support? Nonexistant. That should be *adsense*, not adwords. But yeah. Jeff -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Google App Engine group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Google App Engine group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Google App Engine group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
[google-appengine] Apps For Domains is a MAJOR failing of AppEngine
This is more of a rant, than anything that you will likely encounter.. I use the Adwords API for a lot of things, mainly advising clients that spend north of a half million dollars a month with adwords. (I only get a licensing fee on the app sorry). Recently, because Google changed its policies on unified logins, when I logged in to Google Voice it made me migrate my account. After the migration some of my Google Unified Logins weren't Migrated. Adwords being a primary example. And My Apps For Domains became disassociated with the Account. You can't call apps for domains without a pin. If you do get someone on the phone using the pin from your other account they tell you they can't help you because that account isn't associated with your login. When you call adwords they tell you that your account has to get support from apps for domains. As a Result I've had a week plus of downtime on my Adwords App, because of Apps For Domains. I could move the App to use a different API-key on another account, but because of the way the outsourced company I used developed the app I'd have to manually update credentials in every install. Awesome sauce I know. But the over Arching Theme is that Adwords support while unhelpful have been friendly, though they will only move my issue forward at the rate of 1 email a day, and are trying to support another groups mess. The 6 plus people I have talked to in Apps for Domains support, have been rude enough that they actually hung up on me, put me on hold for 2+ hours, and told me I was beyond help. I realize that for $10 you can't afford to support me, but for the amount I spend elsewhere, be nice. This experience with AppsForDomains has soured me towards recommending GAE more than the change in pricing. More than the Drama of moving from MS to HR. More than the you can't migrate off it. If I have a week of downtime because tech support won't even talk to me. That's a Far larger concern than any of the pricing or infrastructure issues. 1 week of down time means that Four 9s of uptime is going to take a millennia to get back to. -Brandon Brandon Wirtz BlackWaterOps: President / Lead Mercenary Description: http://www.linkedin.com/img/signature/bg_slate_385x42.jpg Work: 510-992-6548 Toll Free: 866-400-4536 IM: drak...@gmail.com (Google Talk) Skype: drakegreene http://www.blackwaterops.com/ BlackWater Ops -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Google App Engine group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. image001.jpg
Re: [google-appengine] Apps For Domains is a MAJOR failing of AppEngine
I'd like to give a huge +1 to this. The Google Apps system is a trainwreck. I made the terrible mistake of moving some of my personal domains to Google Apps and now: * I'm in some sort of Catch-22 that locks me out of my adwords account. Not a big deal (it wasn't important) but I can't create a new adwords account (seriously, not even by creating new Google Accounts) and I can't delete the old one. I like to think I'm a smart guy, but this is worse than one of those chinese puzzles because I'm not 100% certain there is a solution. Support? Nonexistant. * The huge delays on moving domains around in Google Apps is lunacy. Let's say you're running a GAE app on a doman configured as a domain alias for Google Apps Domain A and you want to split it out into its own Google Apps Domain (ie, you sold the product). Impossible without a week's downtime while the domain releases from A. WTF? * Don't get me started on the big problems I've had with logins working some places and not others (eg, Google Groups). Maybe this isn't quite the place for my rant, but since GAE depends on Google Apps, it would be nice if Google Apps had the kind of support that we expect from GAE. Jeff On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Brandon Wirtz drak...@digerat.com wrote: This is more of a rant, than anything that you will likely encounter…. ** ** I use the Adwords API for a lot of things, mainly advising clients that spend north of a half million dollars a month with adwords. (I only get a licensing fee on the app sorry). ** ** Recently, because Google changed its policies on unified logins, when I logged in to Google Voice it made me migrate my account. After the migration some of my Google Unified Logins weren’t Migrated. Adwords being a primary example. And My Apps For Domains became disassociated with the Account.*** * ** ** You can’t call apps for domains without a pin. If you do get someone on the phone using the pin from your other account they tell you they can’t help you because that account isn’t associated with your login. When you call adwords they tell you that your account has to get support from apps for domains. ** ** As a Result I’ve had a week plus of downtime on my Adwords App, because of Apps For Domains. I could move the App to use a different API-key on another account, but because of the way the outsourced company I used developed the app I’d have to manually update credentials in every install. ** ** Awesome sauce I know. But the over Arching Theme is that Adwords support while unhelpful have been friendly, though they will only move my issue forward at the rate of 1 email a day, and are trying to support another groups mess. The 6 plus people I have talked to in Apps for Domains support, have been rude enough that they actually hung up on me, put me on hold for 2+ hours, and told me “I was beyond help”. I realize that for $10 you can’t afford to support me, but for the amount I spend elsewhere, be nice. ** ** This experience with AppsForDomains has soured me towards recommending GAE more than the change in pricing. More than the Drama of moving from MS to HR. More than the “you can’t migrate off it”. If I have a week of downtime because tech support won’t even talk to me. That’s a Far larger concern than any of the pricing or infrastructure issues. 1 week of down time means that Four 9s of uptime is going to take a millennia to get back to. ** ** -Brandon ** ** *Brandon Wirtz *BlackWaterOps: President / Lead Mercenary [image: Description: http://www.linkedin.com/img/signature/bg_slate_385x42.jpg] *Work:* 510-992-6548 *Toll Free:* 866-400-4536 *IM:* drak...@gmail.com (Google Talk) *Skype:* drakegreene BlackWater Ops http://www.blackwaterops.com/ ** ** ** ** ** ** -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Google App Engine group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Google App Engine group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. image001.jpg
Re: [google-appengine] Apps For Domains is a MAJOR failing of AppEngine
On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 5:45 PM, Jeff Schnitzer j...@infohazard.org wrote: I'd like to give a huge +1 to this. The Google Apps system is a trainwreck. I made the terrible mistake of moving some of my personal domains to Google Apps and now: * I'm in some sort of Catch-22 that locks me out of my adwords account. Not a big deal (it wasn't important) but I can't create a new adwords account (seriously, not even by creating new Google Accounts) and I can't delete the old one. I like to think I'm a smart guy, but this is worse than one of those chinese puzzles because I'm not 100% certain there is a solution. Support? Nonexistant. That should be *adsense*, not adwords. But yeah. Jeff -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Google App Engine group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
Re: [google-appengine] Apps For Domains is a MAJOR failing of AppEngine
Well it is the right place to rant in so far as we do depend on Apps for Domains and I can pass this feedback along internally to ensure they understand the external perception. Thanks for the feedback, I'll make sure it gets to the right folks... Greg On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 5:46 PM, Jeff Schnitzer j...@infohazard.org wrote: On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 5:45 PM, Jeff Schnitzer j...@infohazard.orgwrote: I'd like to give a huge +1 to this. The Google Apps system is a trainwreck. I made the terrible mistake of moving some of my personal domains to Google Apps and now: * I'm in some sort of Catch-22 that locks me out of my adwords account. Not a big deal (it wasn't important) but I can't create a new adwords account (seriously, not even by creating new Google Accounts) and I can't delete the old one. I like to think I'm a smart guy, but this is worse than one of those chinese puzzles because I'm not 100% certain there is a solution. Support? Nonexistant. That should be *adsense*, not adwords. But yeah. Jeff -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Google App Engine group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Google App Engine group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
RE: [google-appengine] Apps For Domains is a MAJOR failing of AppEngine
Greg, if you are passing things along, mention I'm still not resolved, and I started on the 8th of this month. From: google-appengine@googlegroups.com [mailto:google-appengine@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Gregory D'alesandre Sent: Monday, September 19, 2011 5:58 PM To: google-appengine@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [google-appengine] Apps For Domains is a MAJOR failing of AppEngine Well it is the right place to rant in so far as we do depend on Apps for Domains and I can pass this feedback along internally to ensure they understand the external perception. Thanks for the feedback, I'll make sure it gets to the right folks... Greg On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 5:46 PM, Jeff Schnitzer j...@infohazard.org wrote: On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 5:45 PM, Jeff Schnitzer j...@infohazard.org wrote: I'd like to give a huge +1 to this. The Google Apps system is a trainwreck. I made the terrible mistake of moving some of my personal domains to Google Apps and now: * I'm in some sort of Catch-22 that locks me out of my adwords account. Not a big deal (it wasn't important) but I can't create a new adwords account (seriously, not even by creating new Google Accounts) and I can't delete the old one. I like to think I'm a smart guy, but this is worse than one of those chinese puzzles because I'm not 100% certain there is a solution. Support? Nonexistant. That should be *adsense*, not adwords. But yeah. Jeff -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Google App Engine group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com mailto:google-appengine%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com . For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Google App Engine group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Google App Engine group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
