I'm hoping it stays closed. There is so much noise vs. signal out there that having a closed social network makes a lot of sense. When you join a group you actually can know everyone in the group. When you post you can actually read all the posts to the thread. Smaller would be even better, but I guess you need a certain number to get a critical mass.

I copied .evolution/addressbook/local/system/addressbook.db to a test.db. I then ran the script below against it to create new.db. I backed up addressbook.db and copied new.db to addressbook.db. I then had to restart evolution including killing any evolution process that was running so that the contacts didn't stay in the cache. Hope this is useful to someone else out there with the same issue.

#!/usr/bin/ruby 

require 'bdb'

db_old = BDB::Hash.open('test.db')
db_new = BDB::Hash.open('new.db', nil, 'w')

seen = Hash.new

keys = db_old.keys

x = 1
keys.each do |k|
  record = db_old.get(k)
  name = record.match('FN:(.*)').to_s

  puts "#{x}. #{name}"

  unless seen[name] == 1
    db_new.store(k, record)
  end

  seen[name] = 1
  x += 1
end

db_old.close()
db_new.close()

To fix this change line 266 of active_scaffold.js from

this.adapter.getElementsByClassName('cancel').each(function(elem) {

to

this.adapter.select('.cancel').each(function(elem) { 

First, run ruby script/server webrick, webrick with give you a much better error than mongrel. It seems for me the attachment_fu module kept failing because of missing processor gems. I was receiving define Technoweenie::AttachmentFu (LoadError) which was not much help either. Even once I had the processors installed I received the same error.

Next try moving attachment_fu out of the way, this revealed that I didn't have the sqlite3 gem installed. Once this was installed the server started. I moved the attachment_fu plugin back and restarted.

Everything worked once these gems were installed. It would be nice to figure out a way to test for missing gems and automatically list them out. Any ideas?

The top priorities for marketing companies should be to either increase their clients revenue or decrease their costs. This brings real value to their clients.

Don't make up a need, build a product for that need and then try to sell that product. This is backwards! Figure out the need first, then create the product that fulfills that need. If it creates real value, then you will have no problem selling it.

Larger organizations are moving toward partnering with service providers so they have some "skin in the game". This would mean setting some kind of base cost and then using a bonus structure that was based on specified measurements of the company's performance. Seems like a good idea, but how does the service provider evaluate the client and all their other vendors to ensure they are pulling their own weight?