Go Daddy ASP.NET Hosting and Google WebMaster Tools Verification

Saturday, September 04 2010 - , - 0 comments

Recently I ran into a minor problem trying to get google webmaster tools setup on a GoDaddy.com account. I was trying to Verify the account via the Upload an HTML file option. Rather than upload the file I tried to simply copy the contents and file name via GoDaddy's control panel. In order to do that you have to: Login to your www.godaddy.com account Select File Management Add New File Paste the content into the file Click save and give the file a name The result is something like this: The problem I had was that verification failed because the file content was incorrect. Looking at the file via...

What is On My Kindle July Edition

Saturday, September 04 2010 - 0 comments

As always, my wife has 2x the amount of novels. Actually she has 6 more that she purchased during July, mostly JD Robb novels…...

iPhone 3G and iOS4 Fix

Thursday, September 02 2010 - 0 comments

So, you’ve got yourself a fancy brick for a phone thanks to Apple and you’ve tried the Life Hacker fix of turning off this, that and the other thing and still doesn’t work? After purchasing a new iPhone because I couldn’t make mine work, I just discovered this small fix: Take a look at your phone. See any little RED numbers indicating Emails, TxT (SMS) messages, updates, etc., well I cleared all of them (especially the SMS ones) and the phone went from completely unresponsive to actually usable. It isn’t a great experience by any means and I think Apple should suck...

Localization ASP.NET MVC2 and JQuery

Wednesday, August 04 2010 - - 0 comments

I hate localization (who doesn’t). It’s one of those things that are always painful, even when you build for it. I somewhat unexpectedly need to localize some greenfield development. The main site is MVC2, but also makes use of JQuery and reuses some existing domain logic. So here’s the stumbling block. How do I localize the JQuery and various javascript functions, especially around validation? MVC2 has a pretty good story here. Your annotations on the model’s can contain the error messages, which can easily be localized. MVC2 also has client-side validation built in so you can use the same type...

Kindle 3 Ready to Go in August

Thursday, July 29 2010 - - 0 comments

How sad is it that I want one of these? http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/07/amazon-new-kindle/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+wired/index+(Wired:+Index+3+(Top+Stories+2))   We already have a V1 and a V2. Carol’s V1 is mostly used for travel now, since her reading is done on an iPad using the Kindle App, which she says is better because she can make the font much larger without having to turn the page every few seconds (LOL). I use the V2 virtually every day. At this point, Devan is starting to use my Kindle a lot. Maybe I should give him mine so I can get...

Browser Based Card Games and Javascript

Thursday, July 29 2010 - - 0 comments

Lately I’ve been playing around with javascript based browser games. Specifically I’ve been creating card games that run in the browser. There are two goals here: 1) create a functional game using essentially nothing but javascript and 2) setup to convert the games to use HTML5 elements. The first game “ Race to the Moon ” is live. I learned a ton in creating this one. The biggest thing I learned aside from debugging javascript sucks is that I’m not a graphic artist. I spent more time trying to come up with the graphics for the game than anything else. Graphically there are still issues, but I...

Firefox, Windows Vista and Windows 7

Wednesday, July 28 2010 - - 2 comments

Does anyone still use Firefox? I swear, it was once my only browser, but these days every single time I open Firefox it takes forever to load and then informs me it is updating and to please wait. Minutes later, after I’ve switched to Chrome or if I’m on a no chrome site (LOL) to IE it will finish launching. It’s become so annoying I avoid Firefox like I used to avoid IE. Is Firefox a dying breed now that Chrome, Safari and IE are evolving and gaining steam? My 5 year old HP laptop boots up Windows Vista about 10 seconds faster than my 6 month old Windows 7 laptop, which has 2x RAM and much faster...

A Few Weeks with iOS4

Tuesday, July 06 2010 - - 0 comments

I’ve had the new OS on two devices: 3G iPhone and 3Gs iPhone and I can say without hesitation that it is a buggy, crash prone, lock-up craptastic mess. Seriously, when it works it is nice, but when it doesn’t, which is frequently, it causes mayhem: Phone locks up Apps crash Camera doesn’t work Takes forever to shut down For me, the much vaunted Apple experience has gone way south. I won’t put this OS on my iPad, not until it is stable enough that my apps don’t crash multiple times throughout the day. It may be great on the iPhone 4, but I would advise you stay away...

Visual Studio 2010 MVC2 Target Issue

Friday, July 02 2010 - - 0 comments

I’ve been doing a lot of development with VS2010 and MVC2. One problem I ran into last week was that intellisense was reporting 154 errors (gasp!) due to my use of HTML.TextBoxFor(xxxx) type helpers. I tried everything to fix it: Reinstall various pieces and parts of .NET4 framework and Visual Studio, rebooting, clearing out cached files, etc., with nothing resolving it. Yesterday I finally did manage to fix it: Set the main web project to Target the 3.5 framework and compile (which of course breaks). Save the entire solution and close. Reopen the solution and set the Target Framework to...

AT&T Micro-cell

Tuesday, June 22 2010 - - 0 comments

I finally succumbed and gave ATT more of my money in order to allow me to actually use the two iPhones that I have in my house. You see, I have zero bars at my house. If I go fifty feet out my backyard I have three bars and no problems. Fifty feet in front of my house I have two to three bars, but in my house zip. The installation was easy enough. Register the device, register your phones, connect it (in the order they say) and wait approx 90 minutes for it to get a GSP signal and register itself. My phone connected immediately. My wife’s phone we had to power off and on but it then connected without...