I have had time to catch up with getting the most out of my savings, it had been over a year since I had touched my Tax Free Savings Account (TFSA). Thankfully I found a quick and easy way to find out your contribution limit from the beginning of the current year. To find out what my contribution room was I simply used Quick Access, an online tool provided by...
I have been getting back into SharePoint 2010/2013 development, and already I had flashbacks to when I had worked with 2003 and 2007 when I received errors about my ‘unsafe webpart’. This actually seemed to be a regular occurrence, particularly when changing namespaces or assembly details. I set out to get to the bottom of this, and remembered some old tricks from before that helped in creating this troubleshooting guide....
Using dispatch_once is very handy at times, however there may be times where your program comes to a halt, and can point blame to a dispatch_once wrapper. The key here is using the stack trace if possible to look at the chain of events and tracing it to see why a resource might be locked. I have run across this scenario myself, pausing the application showed the following: Well that confirms...
If you are developing an iOS or OSX application and did some styling changes at some point, then realize that your cursor is not showing up in the app anymore the issue is most likely related to tint. Tint can be changed per object, or on the whole storyboard itself, and sets the cursor colour. There are three places to check: Check the control itself, is it set to default...
Some tips that may help when working with a git enabled Xcode project where it always wants to ignore your gitignore file: Verify your .gitignore exists in the root git repository directory. This directory should be at the base of your project in most cases, and there should be an accompanying .git file. You can view hidden files on an OSX terminal session with ls -a. Follow the steps (credit...
If you have worked on an existing Xcode project for some time and decide that you want to add a Git repository to better track your files, you will want to do the following steps: Start off by backing up the folder as a general safety precaution Now would be a good time to add an ignore file. See ignore file section below. In a terminal, CD to your project...
You and I are in the same boat. We want to use one of the touch responder methods: touchesBegan:withEvent: touchesCancelled:withEvent: touchesEnded:withEvent: touchesMoved:withEvent: These may work fine, however if you decided to use a UITableViewController as your base, or and object with scrolling, these appear to swallow the event before it gets to you. This can be fixed by subclassing UITableView (for example), assigning your table to that class on the...
Quick post here, as there is a quick solution for most people having the error “ROM file is not an EFI BIOS”. I recently had this with my Asus motherboard. Even though I had double checked that I had downloaded the correct BIOS update from their support website, I received this error when I tried from my USB as well as my hard drive. Here’s what I found out about...
As an avid user of Autoit for its sheer simplicity one of the things I most commonly do when I start using it for scripting is to have the script I am working on run under full permissions. Generally this is done because I use the tool for installing programs. If you are using batch files often this behavior is needed. For those of you I have developed a quick...
Windows 7 by default will not reply to pings coming from outside of a trusted network. This is because of a slight security enhancement to keep your desktop a bit more concealed when connected to the internet. Unfortunately me, among others generally would rather have this working so we can determine if a device is running or not. One thing that irked me was that I could not find a...