Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Western Union Scam! Another one.

Firslty, the scam."Don't send me money, just send it someone else, friend or family and show me proof you can afford to buy the product / rent the room etc, show me proof using a photocopy of the receipt"How the scam works?Western Union, don't need any proof of you or the recipient to take the money,...

Wednesday, October 06, 2010

Can't download Chrome behind a Corporate Network?

There seems to be an issue with the Chrome installers:ChromeSetup.exe andChromeStandaloneSetup.exeThe only one I found to work was the ones from FileHippo:http://www.filehippo.com/download_google_chrome/There was a way to download straight from Google but it doesn't seem to work anymore, unless I'm...

Friday, July 30, 2010

HTC Desire SPP 2.1 Issues

If you have an HTC Desire and you are having issues with your Bluetooth code, such as:Service Discovery doesn't work or flakyCan't see Misc devices, i.e. those with a Bluetooth device type of Headset, Phone or CompIf you have issues communicating via SPP (Serial Port Profile)Just plain not workingYou...

Finding Bluetooth Service Address on Windows

If you have connected to a device, but want to write code to discover it, you need to know the service address/guid of the bluetooth device, in order to talk to it.On Windows if you navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\BTHENUM\You will see the devices connected and then in HardwareID...

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Wednesday, July 07, 2010

Failed object initialization (ISupportInitialize.EndInit). Error on Windows XP

Failed object initialization (ISupportInitialize.EndInit). Method not found: 'System.Windows.Threading.DispatcherOperation System.Windows.Threading.Dispatcher.BeginInvoke(System.Delegate, System.Object[])'If you get this error, looking at the MSDN page for the method callhttp://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc190824(VS.90).aspxIt...

Sunday, June 20, 2010

Bit of Hex Education

So I've started my Virtua Tennis Savegame editor, so in order to follow, I need to teach you about hex. So firstly, the easy stuff.If you want to get properly confused, go to the Wiki Page but here's a nicer one:http://www.itnewb.com/v/Introduction-to-Hexadecimal-or-Base-16-Number-SystemHex is base...

Saturday, June 19, 2010

Fixing N95 8GB keypad and save yourself money!

Problem: My N95 8GB keypad stopped working and just broke into pieces, cost for some one to fix it, £30-£40.I'm a cheap bloke, so I decided to fix it, this is how I did it!Firstly, I looked for a new case this is called "housing", so ebay time.Ebay search for N95 8GBIt took about 3 weeks for the delivery...

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Getting HTC Desire working with ADB

Got an HTC Desire, I tried installing the Drivers with the Android SDK, it wouldn't work, I first had to enable USB Debugging.Settings -> Applications -> Development -> USB DebuggingPlugging it in, it wanted to install ADB (Android Debug Bridge)I first tried updating the .inf file;HTC Desire%SingleAdbInterface%...

Friday, June 04, 2010

Bitmap Serialize

So I've been tasked to fix a database full of pictures that weren't displayed, no matter what I tried, the Image (Stored as a byte array) was always invalid.So I thought I'll save the file and see if I can get an image fixer on it, I just used a FileStream opened it and wrote to itvar fileStream = new...

Transfer Data between two SQL Server's

Everyone probably knows this, but hey ho.I needed some data from one of my tables in one server to be inserted into another, here is the simplez SQL to do it.insert into Server1.Database.dbo.Table(Col1,Col2,Col3)select Col1,Col2,Col3from Server2.Database.dbo.TableEdit:thanks to @duncansmart just a bit...

Monday, May 24, 2010

Facebook Privacy Checks

Here is a list of Facebook Privacy scanners I've found.1.) Save Face by Untangle is an automated script that will go through your settings and disable them.http://www3.untangle.com/savefaceAll you have to do is drag it on to your Bookmark toolbar for later.2.) Reclaim Privacy, which is a scanner which...

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

InvalidateRequerySuggested on GUI Thread

I've been having issues where buttons weren't getting enabled on my WPF application, only by clicking the form would they work.I found that I need to force the refresh using CommandManager.InvalidateRequerySuggested but that didn't work, the reason being I wasn't on the GUI Thread, I was on another...

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Dieting for Programmer

Right,I've decided to do a post on dieting, not exactly technical but very much of the, "Healthy body, Healthy mind" manta, so my history, I used to be nearly 16 stone so I'm not from the "always been thin, eat what you like" bunch of twats most diet people are.So here is my diet plan / life plan thing.Firstly,...

Monday, May 17, 2010

GPS Degrees, Minutes, Seconds to Decimals C#

I have been trying to connect to a device and get the GPS Data, I was using the library provided by Microsoft's Coding4Fun. http://blogs.msdn.com/coding4fun/archive/2006/10/31/912287.aspx and written by Scott Hanselman... how can he be wrong!?The issue I came across was the precision was out by quite...

Friday, May 14, 2010

Get WhoIs Information from a domain name in C#

I needed to get the WhoIs information for a domain using the simplest way possible.I could have used a WebService such as WebServiceX.net's http://www.webservicex.net/whois.asmxBut I decided to just talk to the whois servers directly, all I needed to do was open a socket send a request and then read...

Remote Desktop Sharing Files

With remote desktop the way to share files is via the Local Resources tab, you can then select a drive.This can be tiresome as you would have share a whole drive over the Internet / Network, the workaround I use, is to create a Mapped Drive to the folder I want to share.I then share that mapped drive,...

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Agent Killer - DirectX Game

This is a game I made for my final year of Uni, I'm releasing it cos its hilarious! I'm going to fix the code, make it run with XNA and OpenGL I think.DownloadYou'll need a decent card I think to get...

Sunday, April 25, 2010

//TODO

Well here is a list of things on my to do list, of things I'm planning on doing or looking at, I will be updating this as I complete themBooks to readArt of Unit TestingDDDApplying DDD with .netCode Complete 2Pragmatic ProgrammerWorking Effectively with Legacy CodePassionate ProgrammerMythical Man MonthThings...

Saturday, April 24, 2010

Links, Precedence, Style-sheets, Oh my.

So I am currently developing my site and I wanted links to be different to my overall colour scheme for links. I therefore added a page style sheet to change them, no matter what I did, the overall one would take precedence instead of the page one.a:link, a:visited,a:hover, a:active{ text-decoration:underline;...

Friday, April 09, 2010

XML to PDF using NFOP, C# .NET

I was using thishttp://www.codelathe.com/blog/index.php/2009/02/28/generate-pdf-from-cnet/Don't download the 1.0 build versionGet the 2.0 version source http://sourceforge.net/projects/nfop/files/nfop/nfop-v2.0.0/nfop_fw2-2.0.0.zip/downloadand get the .dll out of the build dir, or you will get lots...

Thursday, April 08, 2010

Chrome User Agent

Since I can't access my banking website with Chrome but I can with safari, this is how you change the User Agent easilyMake a .bat or .cmd file open with notepad and pastestart chrome --user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1 Sa...

Wednesday, April 07, 2010

WMV C# Meta Information Update Example

I have recently downloaded all the www.dimecasts.net Videos, I then tried to play them on my Xbox, but they weren't in order, so made it quite hard to follow. I therefore created an App to edit the WMV titles, which the Xbox reads.This code is "ok", I should really make the code into a wrapper library,...