EMERGENT COLLECTIVE released, the community rejoices!
I’m happy to announce my band The Compilers have been included on the new EMERGENT COLLECTIVE ONE cd. This compilation is made up of developers in the Adobe community who are also involved with making music. Go download it now, it’s free for all! A huge thanks goes out to creator of this compilation Joseph [...]
I am going to 360 Flex DC, and so should you
I’m happy to announce I received my Golden Ticket to speak at the next 360 Flex conference in Washington DC. The conference will be held at the Hilton DC North Gaithersburg, September 19 – 22, 2010. I’m going to 360 Flex DC, and so should you I spoke at the last 360|Flex in San Jose, but I’m [...]
How I removed iOS4 from my iPhone 3G
In case you need help removing iOS4 from your iPhone 3G, here are the steps that I followed to downgrade my iPhone 3G to OS 3.1.3. Before we get going, I’m not taking credit for these instructions since this is a cleaned up version of this MacRumors forum post. Shout out to my buddy Tony [...]
It’s official, The Flash Platform rocks!
In case you missed the June RMAUG meeting, my band The Compilers played our first hybrid concert and presentation show. Who are The Compilers? As far as I know, we’re Denver CO’s only Tech Funk Fusion trio that use internet technology along with analog instruments. By day we’re internet programmers, and by night we’re rockers. [...]
Add Eclipse’s Open Resource to Visual Studio 2010
One of my favorite features of the Eclipse IDE is ‘Open Resource’ ( Ctrl + Shift + R ). If you’re unfamiliar with this, it’s a File Open dialog that let’s you type the name of the file you’re looking for, instead of requiring you to point and click your way to the file. This [...]
Use SQL to insert a label in front of a DataBound list
Here’s a clever little solution I would like to add to the book of ‘get it done’. While this particular example uses ASP.NET controls, this concept really applies to any language that supports DataBinding to a control. The base concept is using your knowledge of SQL’s UNION operator to add a temp value to the [...]
What if you want to PIVOT against a text column?
If you’ve ever worked with or researched SQL Server’s PIVOT function, you probably noticed most of the samples pivot against an id column. Typically an int column like EmployeeID, or StoreID. That’s fine and dandy, but what happens when you want to PIVOT against a varchar column? If you’ve been in this need you know [...]
Weird, that bat file path doesn’t jive from the toolbar
I just noticed something when running some batch files on Windows 7. If I launch the file from Windows Explorer, the path in the command window matches the location of the batch file. However, I typically launch my batch files from a toolbar on my taskbar that points to the same folder. The batch file [...]
How would you like some TV with that soup.io?
I often forget about soup.io‘s TV feature. This is one of the coolest features I’ve seen on today’s modern social – micro blog – services. It’s a TV station built out of videos you’ve tweeted or posted to your soup.io account. Here is my soup.io / TV station. Click image to launch http://ericfickes.soup.io/tv
DataBind a List of custom classes to an ASP:ListBox control
Recently I was scratching my head at this error from the .NET Framework DataBinding: ‘MyApp.vo.customVO’ does not contain a property with the name ‘Name’ I was stumped because my custom VO class did in fact have a public property called Name. After many trials and tribulations I figured out that .NET didn’t like how I [...]