Firebug (August 24th, 2010)
http://getfirebug.com/releases/firebug/1.6X/firebug-1.6X.0b1.xpi

I own an iPhone, a MacBook Pro, and have built every other computer I’ve ever had in my possession. I am a licensed iPhone developer. I’ve been using the PC format since the early ’90s. I experienced the BBS era, the IRC era, the Linux-as-my-desktop era, the Prodigy-Compuserve-AOL era (DOS/Windows). I’ve written device drivers, enterprise server daemons,  GUI client interfaces, end-user utilities, patched *nix email servers…. I know Ruby, Delphi, VB, Javscript, C++, C#, TCL, Python, CSS, HTML, AS2/AS3, etc etc etc…  I’ll stop here and just say I’m pretty well rounded.

Everything I know I learned by experience. Try troubleshooting IRQ conflicts when you’re eleven years old, and there is not a single, accessible, person that knows how to help.

The only push I’ve ever had was my cousin introducing me to the world of the modem, from there on it was like an insatiable explosion of curiosity.

With that out of the way, I will begin the actual article.

I use Adobe (on a constant basis, almost every day for the last 10 years) and Apple products. If I had to give one up I would choose to keep Adobe.

Apple I can do without, there are other operating system options out there, nobody does everything that Adobe does, as well as they do.

Correct me if I am wrong here but from what I know a very, very high percentage of Apple computer users use it specifically for design… using specifically Adobe products.

This is the main problem I see with Apple’s latest actions, creating bad blood between yourselves and one of the most used software suites for your platform? Are you nuts?

Do you really want to alienate that group of your users? Are you that full of yourselves???

The Flash snafu is mainly about the iPhone/iPad, however it’s bound to bleed into the world of the OSX user — you know, the whole I drink your milkshake thing.

I have developed for both OSX, and Windows. Microsoft may have made a lot of mistakes on the way but if you take a look at their frameworks, SDKs, and what they expose to the developer I think you will see what I am talking about when I say Microsoft has also done a lot of things right, including embracing support for third party hardware and software.

No 3rd party toolkit limit on Windows Mobile!

I like to tinker, so I’ve gone absolutely the most evil, most devious route and, brace yourself, used OSX86 — for those who aren’t savvy, OSX86 is a project to let you install OSX on almost any PC platform.  What’s interesting about doing things like this is that you learn a LOT in the process. Nothing is easy during the process.

You have to consider that Apple only supports and writes drivers for a very small range of hardware, so it’s hit or miss whether your computer will boot, your sound will work, your internet will work, etc… I’ve installed it a few times, every time it’s been quite the “experience”. One can spend days, weeks, months trying to perfect the setup of their hackintosh pc… but wait… why should someone even HAVE to do this? Why doesn’t Apple support more hardware in their operating system? Because Apple seems to have this idea that they can make all of the decisions for the end user, force them to pay premiums for hardware, and live happily ever after.

This is just not the case and I feel that Apple will feel people moving to other phone devices within the next one to two years. I know I will be.

Apple, while I admire your capacity to push new technologies forward, your recent actions have been immature and unacceptable. You need to fix this. Work with Adobe.

Get Flash running with acceptable performance, setup an approval process for third-party developer toolkits.

Otherwise, I’ll be canceling my iPhone developer license, switching to a different phone, and completely removing OSX from my MacBook… I have a feeling I won’t be the only one.

Whatever. Apple doesn’t care anyways.

In Windows (even in Parallels) I use UEStudio, which doesn’t have the best formatting built in, but it does have a re-indentation command… the problem is, in order to use the function, you have to have the text you want re-indented already selected.

I would CTRL-A, to select all and then re-indent. This got old quick because I would always lose my place…

And thus, this macro was born.

It creates a bookmark, selects all text, reindents, deselects, returns to bookmark.

There is no way to go to the LAST bookmark, so if you use bookmarks at all (I don’t) this will NOT WORK =(

Macro code:

ToggleBookmark
SelectAll
ReIndentSelection
GotoBookMark 0
ToggleBookmark


To use, go to Macro » Edit Macro » New Macro

I am a sucker for ambient experimental brain music, and this album is just fantastic.
Tracklist:
———-

01.Phoneme
02.Heavy
03.Looking Back On Earth
04.Oil Water
05.Crypto City
06.EHM
07.ATLAS
08.Ad Explorata
09.Retereo
10.Central
11.Lion
12.Echoes

I really suggest you buy this album, but you can download for previewing here, (only if you promise to pruchase it, if you like it):

www.storage.to/get/0D1RMCPE/WarezEye.Com__STS9-Ad_Explorata_.rar

hotfile.com/dl/20460031/13f6800/WarezEye.Com__STS9-Ad_Explorata_.rar.html

uploading.com/files/2c491b1a/WarezEye.Com__STS9-Ad_Explorata_.rar

When multiple versions of the .NET Framework are executing side-by-side on a single computer, the ASP.NET ISAPI version mapped to an ASP.NET application determines which version of the common language runtime (CLR) is used for the application. The ASP.NET IIS Registration Tool (Aspnet_regiis.exe) allows an administrator or installation program to easily update the script maps for an ASP.NET application to point to the ASP.NET ISAPI version that is associated with the tool. The tool can also be used to display the status of all installed versions of ASP. NET, register the ASP.NET version that is coupled with the tool, create client-script directories, and perform other configuration operations.

So, here’s what got me past this issue:

C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.21006>aspnet_regiis.exe -i
Start installing ASP.NET (4.0.21006).
………….
Finished installing ASP.NET (4.0.21006).

C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.21006>

Looks like mark @ fooberry.com had the same issue:

“After recently installing Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 and creating a .Net 4.0 site, I tried to step out of Cassini and into IIS only to get “503 Service Unavailable” and a killed worker process. Checking the event viewer I found the following errors…”

… read more here.

Rebooting now… fingers crossed!

MMM TASTY!

The referenced component ‘System’ could not be found.

What?! Hold on… let me go into the project properties… oh wait, I can’t:

Could not resolve mscorlib for target framework ‘.NETFramework,Version=v3.5′. This can happen if the target framework is not installed or if the framework moniker is incorrectly formatted.

Thanks! I’ll check the .NET installations, reinstall everything, and try again…

or not, I got the same error even after adjusting the .NET framework manually in the file.

I finally figured it out, eventually:

Problem:

I had been using remote debugging. The network share I was publishing to and testing from, was no longer available as I had just received a new server at work and I switched everything over yesterday, but had not relaunched the projects since earlier that morning… and they compiled fine after I moved everything somehow. A bug? I would say so… Give me some sort of REAL response to go off of, like “Hey, you idiot, change your output directory.”

Solution:

I went in to my csproj files and cleared out any references to the network shares in all areas of the configuration. Voila!

I’m interested to see if anyone else has this problem.

Modifying the boot settings didn’t do anything, using diskpart to attempt to change the drive letter didn’t work… fail fail fail.  Eventually, I realized that things in Vista / Windows 7 may have changed a bit bootloader wise.  I booted up my computer, CTRL+ALT+DEL’d to get a task manager, and ran REGEDIT.

There it was, “HKLM\SYSTEM\MountedDevices”.

This is basically a list of drives and drive letters that are assigned to those drives.

I deleted all of the entries, rebooted, and voila! Back in business!

Here’s what happened:

In Vista and Windows 7, if you clone your active / main / boot drive (via R-Drive Drive Image or the likes), and Windows sees it with the original drive still plugged in and active, it will set a fixed drive letter entry in your “Mounted Disks” registry folder.

When you remove the first drive and put the new one on the same I/O cable, it will boot, but it will either reference the already created drive letter in the registry, or will not assign C:\ to the “new” drive’s serial number. Even though you cloned C:\ to an new disk, and removed the old C:\ physically, the letter will still be reserved in the registry, and the next (in my case anyways) available letter is D:\.

Hope this helps someone out there!

Everything installed OK,  until the end when I tried to install the help files… I got the error:

“MSHelpListener.exe has stopped working”

Apparently, it tries to bind to port 80, which in my case is already bound to by Skype.

Here’s the details / fix from the Help Listener documentation:

If port 80 is used by another process (not via the http.sys service) then the Help listener will not be able to attach and use port 80 and will fail.  The port number can be changed by adding a string registry value ListenerPort under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Help3 with the value of the port to use (eg. 81).  Due to the http.sys ACL settings it is necessary to run the following http.sys configuration command from an admin elevated command line.  On Vista, Win2k8, and Windows 7 run the following native command:
netsh http add urlacl url=http://127.0.0.1:<port number>/help/ sddl=D:(A;;GX;;;WD)

On Windows Xp, and Win2K3 run the following command:

httpcfg set urlacl /u http://127.0.0.1:<port number>/help/ /a D:(A;;GX;;;WD)

If the command is not found then it might be necessary to download the httpcfg.exe from Microsoft as part of the Windows XP Service Pack 2 support Tools (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?amp;displaylang=en&familyid=49ae8576-9bb9-4126-9761-ba8011fabf38&displaylang=en).

Now the Microsoft Help Listener will run on the selected port number.