1 Google apps (paid), there is a phone number to call. I spent several hours on the phone with a very knowledgeable person helping me troubleshoot a sync issue.
2 Hardware, my android watch died. I called the Google play support number, again talked to a very knowledgeable person who gave me a couple of troubleshooting steps, and then promptly replaced the watch.
3 Google adwords. We regularly talk to people at Google adwords, regarding billing and support issues. I also work with people who speak with support people for Google places (or my business or whatever they're calling it today)
In my experience, Google tech support is great when it's for a product you're paying for. That would be my concern getting 60 days free here... If I was using this for business (and not just messing around) I'd rather just pay for it and know I can get support.
Look, dickbrain, I don't use USD either, but this isn't a political argument, it's just that when people give an amount without a currency they typically mean USD.
My apologies, you are quite right. The single most important thing is what currency he meant, and I was clearly being pro-America and anti-semitic by assuming he meant USD.
Not for an unfamiliar project. But I have written a bit, for projects i Use. In the past I contributed to the WordPress documentation because I was using it crazy.
Recently I contributed to the Chef documentation because I was using & learning it, and found a mistake in the documentation.
I would say if you want to contribute to the documentation, actually use the software (even just in a test environment) and look for holes in the documentation... little pain points like that really important thing they forgot to tell you about installing it, or additional things like how to back up the data.
Just like contributing code, don't try to write big parts on your own at first. Look for little things to fix; missing words, incorrect logic etc.
I use docker in production, for a rails app. I used it because it lives on a server with other web sites and I find it a pain to install, configure and manage ruby and rails with nginx, so it was very appealing to have that all in a container and not have to worry about it.
But now I'm suffering from a year old docker bug on centos, and it's more of a pain than if i wasn't using it.
I'm sure its mostly my lack of knowledge, but my personal opinion of docker is 'not ready for production, yet'.
There is also a horrendous lack of documentation on the specifics of configuring docker for production, so you pretty much have to figure it out on your own.
I've been using a dedicated server from liquidweb for about 3 years to serve several high traffic Web sites at work. The only problems I've ever had with it are ones I've caused. You can pretty much get any level of 'managed' that you want, which is nice. They are not a 'cheap' host though. My server is about $230 a month. But it's worth every penny, and more.
That's good... the cron job thing (which is bizzare by the way) is a show stopper for me but if that changes I'll be spinning up several servers for sure.
I have a Kinesis Freestyle 2 keyboard, it's pretty great. I also emailed them off and on for weeks asking them questions about their keyboards, the people there are great too.
My Co worker and I have been talking about this for a while. If someone is getting the information they need (and it comes from out site), but they never leave Google, how do we measure the impact of that?
