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Phil Dawson replied on November 17, 2008 12:27 to the problem "Cannot randomize account icon" in Get Satisfaction:

Many thanks to Scott and Eric for helping with this trival bug, seems the update hasn't been commited to the live site though. I've resorted to using a lil greasemonkey script for now..

Phil Dawson replied on November 14, 2008 09:29 to the problem "get_slideshow_by_user returns Internal Server Error" in SlideShare:

Although I feel like an idiot replying to my own post, this error deserves some attention as it has been down for over a week without any response from anyone at SlideShare. I know this is a free service and I can't demand it goes straight to the top of the fix list, but some acknowledgement would be great. I've also used the feedback form on the site to raise this issue, but still have had no response back. As you can see from my mood below..

Phil Dawson replied on November 13, 2008 09:52 to the problem "Cannot randomize account icon" in Get Satisfaction:

I see this hasn't been solved yet so I just had a quick look at the source. Isn't this the case that all the script needs to have is a few random cupcakes in the avs variable, either hard coded or pulled from a db?

Although I'm really against putting JS inline, heres a quick snippet of code to solve the problem. (note: tinyurl in the img tag as it gets chopped)


<img id="current_user_avatar" src="http://tinyurl.com/5a93m2" />

<a href="#" onclick="
avs = [
{'src' : 'http://3.static.getsatisfaction.com/uploaded_images/0240/3497/cupcake2_medium.png'},
{'src' : 'http://3.static.getsatisfaction.com/uploaded_images/0233/2851/cupcake3_medium.png'},
{'src' : 'http://1.static.getsatisfaction.com/uploaded_images/0232/1176/cupcake7_medium.png'}
];
idx = Math.round((avs.length - 1) * Math.random());
document.getElementById('user_avatar_url').value = avs[idx].src;
document.getElementById('current_user_avatar').src = avs[idx].src;
return false;
">randomize your icon</a>

<input type="hidden" id="user_avatar_url" /></div>


Phil Dawson replied on November 11, 2008 11:55 to the problem "get_slideshow_by_user returns Internal Server Error" in SlideShare:

This call seems to still be down, I'm still getting.. "Oops! Something went wrong."

Please can someone verify that there is a problem, and when it is likely to looked at/fixed.

Cheers

Phil Dawson reported a problem in SlideShare on November 06, 2008 11:51:

get_slideshow_by_user returns Internal Server Error

Argh, looks like this method is down at the moment, and needs critical attention. I only noticed this after a client informed me that no slides were being shown on his site. It looks like the other calls are fine.

http://www.slideshare.net/api/1/get_s...

Phil Dawson replied on September 22, 2008 18:24 to the problem "API EmbedCode needs updating to allow for the new ssplayerd.swf viewer" in SlideShare:

If anybody wants a quick fix for this problem you can check the xml file produced for the slide and see if it matches .ssd or .swf and then use the correct viewer to display it.

http://s3.amazonaws.com/slideshare/ + location + .xml

So for the above slide you would use

http://s3.amazonaws.com/slideshare/cu...

As an example in my code I have setup a cron to call a php script that uses the SlideShare API to re-publish and cache the data as a local xml feed. Whilst looping through the slides I use get_file_contents on the xml file then add an extra tag to it with either the ssplayer or ssplayerd value.

When the page is called on the site I can then read my local xml feed and can instantly know which viewer to use. It gets even better when you cache the output of the page!

Phil Dawson reported a problem in SlideShare on September 22, 2008 14:24:

API EmbedCode needs updating to allow for the new ssplayerd.swf viewer

A client has just pointed out that the new PDFs that have been uploaded are not being embed and you just get the spining gear. A quick look at the XML returned from the API call 'get_slideshow_by_user' shows that the HTML in the EmbedCode just uses ssplayer.swf for all slides.

It would also be good if there was a key value to tell if its using the new viewer or even just allow the slide to be viewed using the old system so it doesn't break!

Eg

http://static.slideshare.net/swf/sspl...

should be

http://static.slideshare.net/swf/sspl...

Many thanks in advance

Phil Dawson reported a problem in SlideShare on September 04, 2008 09:11:

Favorites RSS feed not generating XML (404 Not Found)

The favourites RSS feed has stopped producing any output. If you watch the http headers it comes back 404 Not found.

eg

http://www.slideshare.net/rss/user/co...

Phil Dawson reported a problem in Get Satisfaction on August 27, 2008 07:31:

Cannot randomize account icon

I'm tring to randomize my account icon and nothing happens. I'm using Firefox 3.0.1 and the Error Console tells me that avs[idx] is undefined. The avs array inside the onclick seems to be empty, who ate all the cupcakes?

Phil Dawson reported a problem in Dipity on August 27, 2008 07:01:

Timeline custom bgcolor changes back to default after switching view

If you embed a timeline with a custom bgcolor using the advanced settings, the color will change back to the default #ACBFE5 if you switch to either the List, Flipbook or Map and go back to Timeline view.