Obviously, this message is incorrect, as well as condescending to the developer. It also erodes user trust in your application.

The only way to change permission is to guide the user to the page for manually removing the current permission they granted your app. Then taking them back into your app to add the different permission.

So, as the developer, always start with the highest Permission level that your app will ever need for a user. In that thought, I have a use case for creating temporary photos so the user can approve the change that I am about to make to his Photo Set. The user would then be able to ‘rollback’ or ‘commit’ the updates after seeing what they look like. It would be nice to have the Delete permission, so I could clean up the album. The alternative is to use the WRITE permission and let the user do any deleting by hand. I personally, think I will go with WRITE. I would rather err on the side of caution, and make it impossible for my app to ever delete a user’s valuable photo archive. It’s also scary to give an application that kind of power, and I think I will gain more users if I don’t require them to give me DELETE permission.

Permission Spec:

http://www.flickr.com/services/auth/list.gne

Cheers,

Ed

Either move one of your nested tables up to a full Entity (and entity relationship) or denormalize one of your nested tables.
A Speed vs Space trade off for you to make based on your app.

nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name ‘txSessionFactory’ defined in ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/mymodule-dao.xml]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is org.hibernate.MappingException: Could not determine type for: java.util.Set, for columns: [org.hibernate.mapping.Column(Image)]

The example in the book shows that the annotations should be set on the private field, but they should actually be set on the public getter.

@org.hibernate.annotations.CollectionOfElements
@JoinTable(
name = "ITEM_IMAGE",
joinColumns = @JoinColumn(name = "ITEM_ID")
)

private Set<Image> images = new HashSet<Image>();

should be:

@org.hibernate.annotations.CollectionOfElements
@JoinTable(
name = "ITEM_IMAGE",
joinColumns = @JoinColumn(name = "ITEM_ID")

}

This may be due to the added layer of the interaction with Spring. Either way, give it a shot if you are experiencing this problem.

Ideally, the 3rd party sites would provide status pages that continually hit their own API’s and show the problems to us and them. Put some RSS feeds on that page, and you have a nice alert system. But none of them bother to provide that.

Ultimately, I want to add these tests into a continuous build system, like Hudson, so that I can get alerted within a short timespan when one of the services I depend on goes down. In addition, I’m thinking this should trigger an automatic update to my web app. Probably a warning on my site and support forums  that states that features using site XYZ are not behaving properly as of XPM on a given date.  Even better (though more risky?), if the failure shutdown functionality depending on that failed REST server until it passed my integration tests again. This would also show a message to  users and also alert the developers.

At a bare minimum though, setup your own tests, and be ready to run them at a moments notice. It will save you a lot of grief and wasted debugging.

I’m on Mac OS 10.5.x . I reinstalled the IntelliJ application package, but that did nothing. Next, I renamed the IntelliJ 8 cache folder, so Intellij would create a new one the next time it started. This solved all the problems.

This folder on a Mac is located here:

/Users/[your user name]/Library/Caches/IntelliJIDEA80

/Users/[your user name]/Library/Caches/IntelliJIDEA70

Rule Number Fucking 1: Don’t lose the user’s data!

Rule Number  2: Don’t lose the user’s data!

Rule Number 3: Find a text editor iphone app that can integrate with mail when it’s time to send. (Since there’s no cut and paste still…<sigh>)

One note of caution, It fails playback w/ SocketConnection exceptions when run under jre 1.6_10. I downgraded to 1.5.0_16 and it played fine. Running it on an ec2 instance so that bandwidth can match the T1. EC2 only give 1.5Mbps upstream from the instance, but that’s fine in my  case. If I needed more there are Jmeter EC2 slaves already setup in the EC2 repository. And at 2-3$ a day for running a small instance, this is a great solution.

I’d really like to see a preconfigured windows selenium grid ec2 instance in the repository since IE is the most used browser still. Currently, only linux is available.

Small instance: $90/month for purely ec2 payment. (not storage, bandwith, io, etc)

Medium instance: $360/month

That’s a factor of 4. Not much for a business, but a lot of money for a solo programmer experimenting. Also, it can turn into a lot for a small business if the solution involves clustering.

Overall, a good experience getting started.

Can’t believe someone managed to sneak this in the production version…

Google maps hit and run