For one of my apps it says that I'm not using a production ready database. I'm using Amazon RDS. How well will the DB add-ons integrate with this check?
Agreed. Although, as a person who runs an agency, I do get a lot of emails a day from freelancers. So, you should try to stand out by showing your best work up front and be a real person. Don't try to sound like you're a team of 12 by saying "we" and attaching your company logo to everything. Simply say...
"My Name is protoweek and I really like what you guys are doing. I especially like your app XYZ. If you need help on a project I'd love to work with you. Here are the last three apps I've published. If you need an invite code let me know.
None of us will know the complete depth of their relationship, but TomTom shouldn't be so removed from this PR. What they should have said is "Although Apple provides additional layers of functionality on top of our map data, we've reached out to Apple to help support in fixing these issues."
That sounds a lot nicer than "it's not our problem"...
About the twitter/facebook buttons. You can just delay until after the window.load event has occurred. It will have no impact on the page load, since the page is fully rendered at that point.
$(window).load(function() { /* load twitter and Facebook buttons */ });
Well... Yes. It was helpful for that reason. I waded through many of the errors and traced them back to actual lines of code. It just so happens that many of the errors weren't particularly useful to me. I.e., not actionable.
Our browser tests include IE7, IE8, IE9, Safari, Firefox and Chrome. None of those errors are present in our tests. As you note, in many of the cases I could wrap the errors with notifications to the user.
But, really, if the google variable isn't loaded for a small set of users and I can't easily configure a test system that can reproduce it, I'm not going to take the time right now. I have too many other pressing things on my list.
I tried Airbrake yesterday and it wasn't that helpful. I had to turn it off quickly as I was inundated with errors.
You can see from your screenshot that you're getting Script Error at line 0. A number of other errors pop up that I couldn't quite figure out.
For instance, when the variable 'google' isn't found it's because the google javascript never loaded. But, how many browsers are rejecting the google maps javascript?
One quick note: I tried to select something on this page and nothing would happen. I finally figured out that I had to sign up for a service first.
Have you considered creating a bit of javascript that any site can embed on their site that would allow a visitor to annotate? This could be a really powerful channel for getting sign ups. Especially if you partner with some quality sites.
Also, have you considered making it anonymous to start like github:gist? It would be great to test it out without making a commitment of signing up. I.e., "Do I really have to sign up for something, before I even know if it will provide value to me?"