Bing Maps MapControl not loading: GET https://www.bing.com/alse/rp/<random string>.br.js net::ERR_ABORTED 404 - bing-maps

I'm getting 404's from my own site (regardless of browser) as well as the Bing Maps V8 Interactive SDK. On my site this leads to Uncaught TypeError: Microsoft.Maps.Location is not a constructor errors. I'm guessing this means Bing Maps is having problems and not my code because of the missing .js file? Anything I can do to mitigate this?
Looks like Microsoft fixed their issue. It is working now.

I have also reported this to Microsoft. All my screens that use the web controls have stopped working and report 404 problems on .js routines

I'm able to reproduce this. Looks like Bing Maps is down. We can report this to the Bing Maps Enterprise support team here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/maps/support (Bing Maps shows up under the developer tools category in the first form). I'll also report this from my end.
Update
The support team is now reporting that this issue has been resolved. I can confirm things are working on my end. I believe you can request details about the outage from the support team and they will send out an incident report once one is created (likely in the next couple of days).

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Cannot submit for production in Google Actions

I created a trivia app in Google Actions following this link. I followed all the steps but when trying to submit for production (officially launch the Action to all the Google Assistant users) I get the following error:
I double checked all the constrains they suggest in the tutorial (like using photos of a specific size, having proper Privacy Policy and Terms of Service , checking that the app name is not taken etc).
One thing to mention: this is not a network issue, as I tried from multiple PCs and networks.
Is there a log file where I can look and pinpoint the issue? Or somebody else encountered this issue?
As suggested I've reached out Google support team (https://developers.google.com/actions/support/) . They answered really fast.
The fix was simple: make another copy of the spreadsheet used and try again.

Bing maps REST API does not work

I am trying to show routes using BING maps REST service , but the map image with routes does not show up sometimes (shows blank map) , but after refreshing the html page it shows up.
I have contructed below URL
http://dev.virtualearth.net/REST/v1/Imagery/Map/Road/Routes?wp.0=300%20Albemarle%20Road,,,Charleston,29407-7593&wp.1=1000%20Fort%20Johnson%20Road,,,Charleston,29412-8898&wp.2=1525%20Avenue%20B%20South,,,North%20Charleston,29405-2328&mapVersion=v1&mapSize=800,600&zoomLevel=10&key="my bing map key"
I've taken a look at this. I was able to reproduce the error with your URL. I tried modifying it by removing the extra comma's and the removing the last part of the zip codes (zip+4) since those are not supported. After doing that I was still able to reproduce this issue, but much less frequently. I suspect that there may be a couple servers that are out of sync on Bing Maps side, thus the inconsistency. I'll notify the engineering team so they can look into this.

Rest Console for Chrome won't let me input any info

I installed the Rest Console extension onto Chrome. I can't use this Rest Console for anything, because the only fields that accept text are 'Request URL' and 'Request Method'.
I ask here as there is no resources or community accessible for even simple instructions on how this extension works, and there are likely members of this community who have used this extension.
Use the Postman - REST Client it works perfectly!
your_url_to_post: Fill the URL
your_json_param: The name of the param that you'll pass you json
your_json_data: The json content
Don't forget to select x-www-form-urlencoded if you'll do a post
http://i.stack.imgur.com/TISW1.png
You should be able to enter text in the other field if you tick the checkbox associated to the field first.
I started having a similar issue myself (Forms wouldnt let me input data I could click them but thats as far as it went) across a lot of web pages to include my own php game and I know the form code hasnt changed at all before this issue started. I came across a article of someone else having a similar issue themselves that I was having and someone said that they needed position: relative on their forms that are not given specific instructions on positioning when dealing with google chrome. I have since made this change myself at www.immoralattack.com and the issue has stopped on that site but still continues on many others so its pretty safe to say that is the issue.
Its only happening on the dev build of chrome for me atleast and I hope this isnt something they plan on implementing on live or this will mess up alot of websites.
Also try turning off auto fill from chrome if its on, while I was looking for this bug I found alot of similar bugs but they delt with auto fill being on.

How to ensure a place is part of the Google Places autocompletion

We got a customer looking after an event called Floriade placed in the city of venlo in the Netherlands. This point of interest is sometimes shown on the autocompletion under Floriade 2012. I say sometimes shown as we used to see it, then it disappeared, now it is back again.
1-How can I be sure that the autocompletion (through Google Places API) is showing this point of interest ?
2- What is enabling a point to be in this autocompletion or not ?
If a place has a Google Places page, e.g http://maps.google.com.au/maps/place?cid=14788366310032789085 it is guaranteed to be returned by a Places Autocomplete API.
You may have experienced a bug in the API. If it occurs again please report it on the issue tracker: http://code.google.com/p/gmaps-api-issues/issues/entry?template=Places%20API%20-%20Bug
Another way to guarantee that your application will show a place is to perform a 'Place Report Request' using the Google Places API with your API Key. This will instantly add a place and make it available to your API Key, then if the place is approved by Google if will be available to anyone.
Cheers
Chris

Automatic web tester for 404 links?

Is there any test framework or software that can automatically go through a site and find 404 errors from links?
You could use an extension for your favourite browser, i.e. LinkChecker for Firefox.
Are you looking for a tool that does complete validation/checking of the site? Or one that does use-case testing of specific parts of the site.
For the latter I recommend TestPlan, it has the ability to check the headers of pages and work with the so-called "meta" response of the page.
The original web-site is no longer available but the project is now hosted on Launchpad.
For the former it isn't the best tool, but as part of a test framework it is easy enough to get it to scan through links on the site looking for errors.
If you're running on Windows there is this one.