To anticipate and prevent
A lot of the code I post and tech bits I fix are things I find while working. Sometimes I can’t explain the bigger picture, sometimes it simply doesn’t matter. Most people don’t care about the why, but simply the how (to fix something) like the “Cannot Save Attachment” message in Outlook 2007. But with…
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Recently, I was talking with a friend about repeated phone calls they were getting that were hangups. First thing to do in a situation like that is Google the number; you’d be surprised how often something turns up. The second thing is to try whitepages.com. In this particular case, it noted the phone number was…
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Recently I was messing around on Android with the BrowserView’s and BrowserIntent’s. When trying out one of the examples, I got: InetAddress: Unknown host www.google.com throwing UnknownHostException Every URL I entered, it displayed a “Page cannot be found” type error. At first I thought it was the site I was trying to use, but obviously…
Remember. Breasts + Comic book nerds = EXTREMELY popular In case you were unaware, this past weekend was WonderCon 2010. For those that don’t know, WonderCon is the little sister to ComicCon, one of the hugest comic book expos anywhere. WonderCon still shines on its own though. There is a TON of stuff going on,…
I. Hate. April Fools. Don’t get me wrong, the concept is cool and all but as usual the internet has ruined things. Cute and harmless jokes are fine, but the plethora of fake news stories that come out make it so you can’t use the internet at all on April First of each year. In…
One thing I yearn for when I am programming is a debugger like Perl’s interpreter. If you had a bug in your code, it would tell you almost exactly where it was, and even suggest fixes sometimes (Ex: You probably forgot a semicolon at the end of line X). Unfortunately, that isn’t the case with…