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In the past I have used nexo.com to share documents with sales, marketing, PR, and technical people for a small startup. But I wonder if there is a better solution to allow different types of geo-graphically dispersed workers to get to a variety of uploaded documents. I don't want to have to build or host this myself, and free or cheap is always nice.
I read about Confluence, but it seems to be way more than what I need. I simply want access-controlled folders in the cloud.

I haven't used this myself just yet, but I've heard great things about it google docs

We use s3fm for that. It's a free solution but requires an Amazon S3 account. Since we have one for our hosting needs that was an obvious choice. But given Amazon S3 bottom pricing I think it might make sense to consider open one just for that.

Love Dropbox!!! I haven't used it for setting up a lot of group access, though.
Sounds like Google Sites would help you a lot. You can set up a network of distinct Web sites -- one for sales, another for marketing, another for PR -- and upload your files to them. You can determine who has access to each site as well as each page of content.

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Wound up using filesanywhere.com - has the exact features I was looking for.

We use a combination of:
Backpack
SVN
JungleDisk

Take a look at Dropbox.
Access control is somewhat limited, but it's been working out very well for me.

Unfortunately I'm in the middle of writing such an application for a client. The best thing I can recommend is taking an existing web based file manager and adding in the permission feature.

With a big freaking huge disclaimer that I work on this as my day job:
If you're looking for feedback on those documents Backboard gives you web-based viewing and collaboration with no software required.

there is a product called docpro.this allows you to set up various security levels,routing methods etc.Its a web based one you can use for geographically dispersed team members across the globe.But its not free,But cheap i think.
Check this link
http://www.omnexsystems.com/Faq/documentpro.html

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centralized API documentation for microservices [closed]

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My team and I are currently building multiple services in parallel. We have the benefit of building all the services from scratch. I would like the ability to automatically display all API endpoints, from all services, in one page/site. This would be helpful because (among other things):
I don't have to go to multiple documentation sites to see what are the available endpoints in my entire "system".
It'll be a good first step to determine if any of the services should be split, combined or simply refactored.
Some of our services are in Django and the rest-swagger module is a great help. But I don't see how I can combine rest-swagger documentation from multiple services into a single documentation page/site.
I'm currently looking through this site and anything related to the Netflix experience but could not find a solution to my problem. Maybe centralized documentation isn't a big deal with 600+ services at Netflix, but that's hard to believe.
Can anyone suggest a tool or method to have a combined API documentation for all services in a microservice architecture?
My ideal scenario of what happens when a service is changed:
I click on the link to see the list of endpoints in my system.
A teammate updates a service and also it's documentation.
I refresh the page I am currently and I see that change made from step #2.
With my exp, you have some paths.
http://readme.io/
Make a wiki with JIRA, Redmine.
In Github create a repo for exclusive docs.
Google Docs.
I don't know about any existing tool rather I'm just putting my thought on where to do it.
From what the OP describe, they are already building a micro services architecture using Netflix stack. There should be a repository to config the name (or URL) for each of the services and the 'config server' or 'service registry' will read from that. To me, that's the perfect place to put the reference to each of the micro-service's documentation under their own entries. This way you get the benefit of maintaining the documentation and code at same place, plus you could potentially also collect run time information like instance/connections count if you hook into the config/registry server.
Being in similar situation I am looking to adopt https://readthedocs.org/ with GIT backed.

Decent tool for producing a glossary of technical terms [closed]

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I'm currently developing the front end of a new CMS for a digital streaming company, the main problem the project has is keeping track of the technical language that has sprung up around it.
It currently involves around 60 staff in four countries, aside from a wiki (which has thus far failed to be kept up-to-date), anyone have any good tools or tips for building and maintaining a glossary for a project like this?
aside from a wiki (which has thus far failed to be kept up-to-date)
This comment makes me pretty nervous about suggesting other solutions. Wiki's can come with their own problems, but keeping it up to date is not a problem inherent in the platform. It's a cultural or organizational problem. A wiki provides a very easy way to track and update data. If, today, you cannot keep it up to date, ask yourself how you will solve this problem if you change the tool?
Changing to another platform could solve things like: The wiki isn't scalable for that amount of data; we want to make controlled edits; we need to release in multiple languages; we need to release in other formats.
For the updating problem, try something simple to start, like assigning a dedicated team member to glossary maintenance. They don't have to be the only contributor, but if you have someone who is dedicated to paying some attention to this area you will have a much better chance of keeping things up to date.
In an untended garden, it's not the fault of the soil that you have no flowers.
DITA has a glossary specialization. You can maintain a central company glossary in it. In individual company documents, you create a mini glossary topic then use a content reference to pull any terms you need into your document.
It does sound more like a version control issue though.

Suggested Opensource CMS for managing files by metadata? [closed]

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I've been wanting to create a resources database for an organisation storing predominantly audio files (lectures) and PDFS. I'm pretty familiar with Wordpress, however I'm looking for another CMS which is more suited to what I want straight out of the box. Can anyone suggest a simple CMS which will allow files to be uploaded and managed by the metadata, rather than folder hierarchy?
If your main goal is to create a resources database, you might be better off using a Digital Assets Management system than a traditional CMS. I found ResourceSpace (http://www.resourcespace.org/) and Razuna (http://www.razuna.org/) very useful for similar projects.
Maybe you could use Typo3 combined with its DAM (for digital asset management) extension. I've been using it for quite a while now, and it does its job pretty good. And it'd be combined with the CMS features of Typo3, while not being very simple, sure are way more powerful than Wordpress. Also there are quite a lot of extensions for DAM itself, such as galleries and the like.
I would check out Alfresco. It is an enterprise grade content management solution for sharing files in company. It is quite an impressive system, and has paid support if you need it. I've seen many very large companies implement it over other paid solutions (like EMC Documentum's eRoom).
Take a look at OpenACS file storage package.

What are the Alternatives to Google Analytics [closed]

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I need to Track Unique Visitor count in my web application. I would really like to use Google Analytics but due to the Load limitations that google imposes I will not be able to use them. I am expecting WAY over 10,000 requests a day. This is the limitation that Google web analytics API imposes. Is there another company that has the same features as google analytics that is paid or free?
There definitely are.
Here are two open source and free solutions that are very polished:
Piwik - Designed as a direct competitor to Google Analytics (it looks just as nice) that you host on your own servers
Open Web Analytics
the 10,000 request apply to the Data API, not to the actual data collection.
Like you can have an unlimited number of users seeing your website. On the other hand if you use the API to extract data from their database, you can do 10k request a day only.
check this link for more details
The biggest, most obvious, most usual alternative is to simply do it yourself. Your webserver needs to log requests for security etc. anyway, so it's not a big deal to run something like webalizer on those logs. You won't get the quick, easy access to advanced information like paths users take through the site, btu that can be determined if you care enough. You do gain one huge benefit though: privacy of your own data.
We use Omniture here but it'll cost you.
There is SpeedTrap, a java-based analytics package. Our company used it for years before they turned into cheap **ards and decided Google Analytics was more cost effective (because it was free). But that's a story for another night.

US Government APIs? [closed]

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I'm working on an app to provide an easy way for people to track the status of a bill [and various other political information]. I love the idea of OpenCongress, for instance, which surfaces summary information on legislation as it navigates the political process, but I'd like it if it had a tag-based search system and some other rich search options, as well as more conveniently accessible voting history and term information. And while they now have JavaScript widgets which show the current status of bills you select, I think more could be done in this regard.
I don't know where they get their data, though, and while they have an API of their own, I don't know whether sticking a wart onto it is the best way of implementing what I envision. For all its touting of transparency, it's not at all obvious to me what data the government makes available, or even how to find that out!
So, does anyone know any good APIs for obtaining information on the status of American legislation, legislators (such as voting histories), agencies and/or upcoming elections? (Or, if you think it's really interesting, feel free to post any other APIs that are relevant to U.S. politics.)
Although they aren't APIs, www.data.gov provides official data sets, which can be mined. For now, I think this is the closest you're going to get to an official, centralized source of data.
Check out ProgrammableWeb's list of government-related APIs. Not all of them are the US federal government, so you might need to sift through it a bit. Also, they're not all provided directly by the government.
There's also an open source project that provides an API for thomas.loc.gov.
We publish feeds of all legislative information for the New York State Senate, with an API, at: http://open.nysenate.gov/legislation/developers
I'm not sure if it addresses exactly your concerns but the Watchdog site tries to do something like this. Their source is available online and they extract a lot of information from public records. A lot of the published stuff is in rather antiquated formats (huge zipped XML files) and so the whole process is not totally straightforward.
You should check out the collection civic APIs that are listed here:
https://live.temboo.com/library/keyword/civic/