Why is it that every time I come in to fix a VB project, the code is awful? This current one is probably the worst. It is sloppy. It is riddled with security vulnerabilities. it is filled with files named “checkout.aspx”, “checkout2.aspx”, etc. No source control. No dev or staging enviornment. They were using the [...]
After restoring a production database backup on SQL Server 2008, to my development machine, I got a “Login failed for user xyz”. The database user was not associated with a user and was marked as “Without login”. This happens when you do not have a login for the database user. You can create that user [...]
I am trying to import an X3d file into my iPhone application. I could use the NSXMLParser to do this, but I want to write as much of the application logic in C++ as possible. The reason I want to do this is that I would like to be able to port this application to [...]
Needed to edit a script for Blender to figure out why I can’t get it to export textures in the x3d format. All the help on the web say to look for it in .blender/scripts but I couldn’t find such a folder on my machine. It wasn’t in my home directory and it wasn’t in [...]
I am currently going through some tutorials for the SIO2 game engine I am currently evaluating. I was able to run the code just fine on my iPhone simulator. When I went to deploy this tutorial to my iPhone device, I got a “Code Sign error: The identity ‘iPhone Developer: Romain Marucchi-Foino (VC824XU999)’ doesn’t match [...]
I recently read a USA Today article talking about the Chevy Volt. In this article, they mentioned 230 mpg which sounds awesome. Later in the article, I read that the Chevy Volt would cost about $0.03/mile to operate. I have a neighbor that wanted to sell both of his cars and buy hybrid vehicles to [...]
UPDATE: Apparently, there is a different technology than Authenticode that I should be using for Windows Mobile. After signing the EXE and the CAB file, this worked just fine on Windows Mobile 5. When testing on Windows Mobile 6, I got the following error: “program is from an unknown publisher”. Not only must the EXE and [...]
UPDATE: Apparently, there is a different technology than Authenticode that I should be using for Windows Mobile. Most of the documentation to sign code for the Windows Mobile device assumes you want to do it all through the Visual Studio enviornment. Well I don’t. Here is what you need to do to get your application [...]
Looks like I’ll be doing some Windows Mobile development again since it is going to pay the bills for a bit. Working with CloudSync on their GPS Logging utility. The devices basically log the GPS data at 5 second intervals. This data is then sent in batch to the servers for further processing. The issue [...]