The developer community has been joined and now we wait.

No idea where this is going to go. it’s exciting but nervous at the same time.

I’ve got some ideas for some free apps that I want to introduce and will put some of the tech details here. But beyond that I do not know, hoping for some inspiration.

Any suggestions or ideas for new iPhone apps to develop will be gladly received.

I guess I will start with a simple text based app, it’s hard to think of something useful and (hopefully) interesting.

At this point it’s more about learning the basic app structure and the development language objective c. Later I will research the competition of which there are many and they have very talented teams.

A bit daunting for a newcomer believe me.

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http://validator.w3.org/

And watch in utter horror while your site is rejected as a bad example to kids everywhere.

So what is going on here? And is there anyway out?

Well after some digging I found an excellent article:

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/netfxbcl/thread/ac098c63-61ff-4b53-b5ad-72cb2eb0f7f2

It turns out the validator is unrecognised as a browser type to asp.net and so is presented with html 4.0 instead of xhtml, hence the border=”0″ debarkle.

Is there a workaround? Yes there is either don’t use image buttons or put this in your web.config:

<browserCaps>
<case match=“W3C_Validator*“>
TagWriter = System.Web.UI.HtmlTextWriter
W3CDomVersion = 1.0
</case>
</browserCaps>

A solution to a weird problem, but necessary if like me you want that green tick

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You need to add the .flv MIME type to IIS:

First click on the site to configure in IIS, right click – select “Properties”.

Under HTTP Headers Tab, select “File Types” button under the MIME Map section and select “New Type”

Lastly Type “.flv” as the associated extension and “video/x-flv” as the content type and Select “OK”

There you have it, flash videos should now work on that site. See you later

Cheers
Dave

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While these are great, I dispair at the loss of the open table, now we open top 200 for editing. I understand that the open table was not efficient but it was handy when something has gone wrong at the 11th hour; so why not just give both options? you can do the top 200 on a production machine, but use the open table where you need to check out all the data.

I have been jeolous of mySQL for a while now, they had script objects and data; this was something I used to use in the 80′s with Artemis (awsome project management software) so disapointed that it didn’t exist in SQLServer. But now in SQL Server 2008 it’s there!!!! on the database name in the tree control select tasks/generate scripts. The wizzard take you through what you want select data in the wizzard and BINGO !  You get the structure of the database and the data, in a .sql file (text file) this is usually a fraction of the size of a database backup and as it’s in text format is really difficult to corrupt or have other problems.

Life is indeed great again!

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Sorry for being negative, but you must know the scenario; I know I have a document somewhere can’t remember the  name but it mentioned “Thomas Jones” or “Project proteus” or “something that I wouldn’t normally put into a document” and I need to find it. Time is running out the pressure is on.

But I’m using MS Windows so everything is fine this is a professional operating system that has been perfected over the last 23 years right?

That windows dog, just doesn't help when you're in a panic

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Then I see the dreaded dog winking at me:

The other day was even worse, I totally forgot of the windows search’s dislike of source code! (How could I have forgotten that? Stupid Dave! Stupid!) After a tense 30 minutes nothing relevant was found. “I hate that Dog!” I gasped. Luckily for me Andrew Lister (of http://slicedorange.co.uk fame) was in the office. “Have you used Wingrep?” he calmly chipped in. “No” I answered. “It’s good” he added. Joy of joys Wingrep is good! Tiny install finds everything, is quite fast (considering it does no indexing unlike the horrible google desktop search and the Microsoft one  they really slow your system down indexing everything) it’s my search of choice from now on – highly recommended. Nice one Andrew.

A screenshot of wingrep, nice and easy wizzard, fast and light interface.

Get your free copy at http://www.wingrep.com/ should you find it useful please pay the author.

Cheers

Dave

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