And once again I wasted a good hour trying out all the suggestions for how to fix the Permission denied error on Windows 7 when trying to drag and drop an assembly into the pre-.Net 4.0 assembly cache. I can assure you that starting the Explorer with elevation, from an elevated command shell, etc all [...]
Symptoms: You used VMWare converter to create a VM from a physical Windows machine. Everything completed correctly. Now you want to start the VM, but it throws a blue screen with a cryptic error. You get booted into Windows Startup Repair, and after some churning it tells you that it cannot repair the problem? And [...]
Last week I had to push out an update of my TripsNMiles Android application to Google Play. I had not used the development environment for about a year, and to avoid any issues I updated the Samsung Kies software on the development machine. The next time I wanted to upload 2 weeks worth of workout [...]
That’s ok, BigCommerce, I love to wait – even though I don’t understand the concept of making people wait before you show them the search results.
I recently booked a rental car on Priceline.com, thinking I had saved a few dollars. I always make sure I uncheck any obscure checkboxes during the checkout process so that I don’t inadvertently provide legitimation for sending me unwanted emails. Today, hardly a week later, I got several hundreds of emails from Priceline.
One of the many things that have confused me for a while after switching to Windows 8 is the UI for the Bluetooth stack. The way one interacted with Bluetooth devices in previous versions was always a little haphazard. It became worse in Windows 8, because the Bluetooth Device Control dialog appears to have disappeared. [...]
Firmware udpate problems with an OWC Mercury Electra 6G SSD and a Lenovo Thinkpad T430s running Windows 8
Part I – XBMC Live About 6 years ago I purchased my first media player – the then newly launched Pinnacle Showcenter 200. It was an exciting new device with countless possibilities. It helped define a market that previously had not existed. Alas, Pinnacle’s acquisition by Avid in 2005, the ensuing lackluster support and product management, [...]
Below is a list of my favorite Drupal modules and their availability of a stable/recommended version for the Drupal 7 platform. I merely assembled this information based on data from Drupal.org and I cannot provide recommendations based on personal experience with any of the modules. Modules in red are currently not available for Drupal 7 [...]
Sometimes it can be convenient to create CSS styles that are unique to a specific page context, either because a page requires a special rule or override due to its features, or because some style rule must be applied based on the page context. I have used this for instance in Drupal skinning when a [...]
