Author: Cory Foy

One of my coworkers uses the term MTTMPFS a lot – Mean Time To Major Product Focus Shift. It’s amazing how low that mean time really is.

I’m sure this is all over the web, but bugger if I had a hard time initially finding it. I’ve been working on some custom extensions to NUnitASP and was having trouble building the project. The NUnitASP guys provide an NAnt build script, but when I ran it I was getting the following: BUILD FAILED…

The next Chalotte Linux User’s Group meeting is tomorrow at our new location at Central Piedmont Community College in downtown Charlotte. They’ve got the lowdown up on the CharLUG site.

Recently I needed a way to have an app take a screen shot of itself and save it to a directory. I only wanted the currently focused screen to be captured. I looked around on the web, and found lots of crazy interop scripts to handle doing a screen shots. But it just didn’t seem…

I admit it. I play Halo 2. On XBox Live nonetheless. And while, yes, most of the people are indeed teenagers (or younger) who think it is cool to say stupid things, it is a lot of fun being able to play with some of my friends from Florida. However, like any popular game, there…

I finally got a dedicated site and server for CharJUG. The new address is http://www.charjug.org and I actually took some time to make it pretty! We have a great speaker coming up this month – Andy Hunt from the Pragmatic Programmers is giving a talk on Agile Techniques. I’m pumped, and we are holding it…

CharJUG is having its next meeting this Thursday. We’ll be having a technical introduction to IBM’s pervasive database technologies by Frank Koconis. Frank will also introduce the group to the new Cloudscape Network Server which allows a single Cloudscape database to support multiple concurrent JDBC or ODBC connections. Pizza and refreshments are provided, so come…

Last Thursday I had the pleasure of attending a meeting of the Charlotte Linux User’s Group – CharLUG. I had joined their mailing list the week before – something I had been meaning to do since I first heard about them late last year – and found they were looking for a new space to…

Last night we had a great presentation at the Charlotte Java User’s Group meeting on J2ME technologies by Chris Clark of MobileHWY, LLC. I posted the presentation up over on the CharJUG site for anyone interested.

The current project I am working on had a problem. The mobile users who were accessing the app were getting server 500 errors. But not from us, from the carrier’s proxy server. It seems our requests were taking too long, and the carrier’s proxy was just giving up. The only way to remedy this was…