some personal, more technical – by Thomas Einwaller
In: Blackberry
25 Jul 2007My friend working at Mobilkom Austria already told me about that a month ago but he had no evidence to show up with. Now we can be sure: Vodafone will exclusively sell the BlackBerry Curve with GPS for some months starting in a few weeks. This means that in Austria the Mobilkom will sell it [...]
In: .NET
24 Jul 2007Today I searched for a way to address an element in an ASP.NET page by JavaScript. My problem was that the ASP elements do not keep their given ID – it is transformed into something like ctlXY_blabla_andSoOn. I found that Bill Pierce wrote a nice little function that acts like the $() function of Prototype [...]
In: Java
23 Jul 2007The newest version 1.2.23 of mod_jk includes a change in the forwarding configuration which is incompatible with mod_rewrite. The developers of the Tomcat Connector changed this to fix a security issue described here. There is a bug entry in the apache issue system about this problem. One of our companies product is a Java content [...]
In: Blackberry|Mobile
23 Jul 2007I waited a long time for this but today I finally was able to upgrade my BlackBerry Internet Service provided by T-Mobile Austria to the newest version. Last week I got the information that it is available and that my current account has to be removed and created again to use it. Today the T-Mobile [...]
In: Java
21 Jul 2007This week I had a strange problem with running the Web Service Explorer inside Eclipse. Every time I started it it only displayed the message “Action canceled”. After a short time I found out that this was caused by an invalid proxy configuration of the Internet Explorer. Why? Because the Web Service Explorer is a [...]
In: Java
14 Jul 2007Today I tried to setup a Java web application on an Ubuntu 7.04 system. This means installing apache web server, Tomcat and configuring mod_jk. I have done this many times before but this time there was something different: the default version of apache that comes with Ubuntu 7.04 is 2.2.x – until today I only [...]
The guy from willitblend.com puts the iPhone into his blender – nice one:
Every windows user has experienced that the Windows Explorer sometimes hangs when accessing network drives of removable media. There is a kind of timeout after you can work again or in the worst case you have to kill it.I had this behavior on my notebook very often the last few weeks even when accessing local [...]
It happened to me more than once that while I am working on my computer I forget about something I put in the oven only minutes ago (pizza, baguette, …). When I smell it it is always to late. So I looked out for a piece of software that reminds me after a period of [...]