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AppleTV - itunes store is temporarily unavailable - please check back later
When attempting to rent a movie on ATV, my wife received the error message above. Alternately “server unavailable”. When your wife is sick, the amount of IT support she needs goes up exponentially....
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Eclipse - "please configure an app engine sdk"
If you installed the Google App Engine separate from the Eclipse plug-in you may see the error message above when trying to create a web application. If so, go to...
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Subversion BI experience - not a very good one, but working now
Suffice to say there is now a document in place and I'm the drill sergeant, harassing people to do proper check in, and throw out those who don't.Some people suggest that in a SSIS project, it doesn't...
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Magento - Debug and file location
I have been using Magento more frequently. I have found that it is a great ecommerce platform. However, finding the proper location of files to edit is a bit challenging if you have not used the...
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Surface Review from Canadian Guy Who Didn’t Go To Build
I didn’t go to Build last week, opted to stay home and go trick-or-treating with my daughters instead. I had many friends that did go however, and I was able to catch up with James Chambers last night...
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Adding PostSharp to new projects, when it's installed for some projects in...
Recently I've posted my experience with installation of PostSharpOnce PostSharp is installed in solution's packages folder for some project(s), I often need to add PostSharp to another project in the...
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Sweden Windows Azure Group Meeting in November & Fast with Windows Azure...
SWAG November MeetingThere will be a Sweden Windows Azure Group (SWAG) meeting in Stockholm on Monday 19th November. Chris Klug will be presenting a session on Windows Azure Mobile Services, and I will...
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Visual Studio 2010/2012 Context Menus and a Keyboard
As a software developer, I spend a lot of time using Visual Studio. I have to say that I completely satisfied with Visual Studio generally. Nevertheless, sometimes Visual Studio starts annoying me. One...
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Build 2012, some thoughts..
I think you probably read my rant about the logistics at Build 2012, as posted here, so I am not going into that anymore. Instead, let’s look at the content. (BTW If you did read that post and want...
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Javascript Inheritance Part 2
A while back I wrote about Javascript inheritance, trying to figure out the best and easiest way to do it (http://geekswithblogs.net/PhubarBaz/archive/2010/07/08/javascript-inheritance.aspx). That was...
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Total Solar Eclipse 13/November/2012
On the 13/November/2012 there will be a total Solar Eclipse. The only land from which this will be visible is the northern part of Australia. Details of the Eclipse are at...
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Must Read: Programming using the SharePoint 2013 REST service
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/apps/fp142385(v=office.15).aspx
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Productivity Tips
A few months ago during my first end of year review at Microsoft I was doing an assessment of my year. One of my personal goals to come out of this reflection was to improve my personal...
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AJI Report #15 | Zac Harlan Talks About Iowa Code Camp
We sit down with Zac Harlen and talk about Iowa Code Camp, what makes up a Code Camp, and how to start your own Code Camp. Zac has been a part of the leadership team for a few years for Iowa Code Camp...
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Get AutoHotkey Script To Run As Admin At Startup
A few weeks back I posted some problems with running AutoHotkey (AHK) in Windows 8, and that the solution was to run your AHK script as admin. I also showed how to have the script start automatically...
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Upon Reflection
During my tenure at the last company, I didn't let my career stagnate as others have and as time moved along.When at work or home, spend 10% of your time learning something new about some aspect or...
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AJI Report #16 | Jason Bock on Windows Runtime and Metaprogramming
This episode we sit down with Jason Bock to talk about Windows Runtime and his upcoming book on Metaprogramming. Jason has been a consultant at Magenic for the past 11 years. In this show, Jason walks...
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Agilist, Heal Thyself!
I’ve been meaning to blog about a great experience I had earlier in the year at Prairie Dev Con Calgary. Myself and Steve Rogalsky did a session that we called “Agilist, Heal Thyself!”. We used a...
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Webmatrix The Site has Stopped Fix
I just got started with AzureWebSites by creating a website by choosing the Wordpress template. Next I tried to install WebMatrix so that I could run the website locally. Every time I tried to run my...
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Where's the source code?
I've been contacted by several people through this blog asking about the missing source code for the "Beginning Windows 8 Application Development - XAML Edition" book (the book is available at...
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