This is a quick and dirty video of my first impressions of iPhone 4.0
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySAia7fDu_Q[/youtube]
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A day in the life of a Programmer
Get the Build Version of your iPhone app at runtime
This is how to get the version number of your app at run time. I find this helpful in to use in the “about” section of my apps. The version number is read from your apps info.plist file.
NSString *version = [[[NSBundle mainBundle] infoDictionary] objectForKey:@"CFBundleVersion"];
SQL Server 2008: FIXED “Saving changes is not permitted”
Working in SQL Server 2008 I received this confusing error when editing the structure of a table:
“Saving changes is not permitted. The changes that you have made require the following tables to be dropped and re-created. You have either made changes to a table that can’t be re-created or enabled the option Prevent saving changes that require the table to be re-created.”
I tried many things but I kept getting this error. After some trouble shooting I found the following information:
This error happens because “Saving Changes is not permitted” when using SQL Server 2008 Management Studio to modify the structure of a table especially when SQL Server needs to drop and recreate a table to save the structural changes. It is always advised to make a structural change for a table using TSQL. However, it is a convenient option for database developers to use SQL Server Management Studio make such changes as the Prevent Saving Changes That Require Table Re-creation option is enabled by default in SQL Server 2008 Management Studio.
I can understand why this feature would be helpful to have but to have it enabled by default is just silly.
I found that you can disable this feature by:
- Open the Tools menu then click on Options
- Open the “Designers” tree
- Click on “Table and Database Designers”
- Uncheck “Prevent saving changes that require table-creation”
- Press “Ok”
Once I disabled the “Prevent saving changes that require the table re-creation” option, I was ahead and save the changes I needed to make.
Remove Unwanted Firefox Auto-Suggest Entries
Firefox 3 is awesome we all know that, but there are some things that that would just be nice to have. One of those things would be the ability to control what appears for the auto suggest when you type in the URL bar.
Most of the time FireFox does a very good job of figuring out what you want to do, but when it goes bad, it goes really bad and gets annoying fast.
The other day I accidentally typed in “google.com/a”, and from that moment time on, everytime I wanted to go to “google.com”, it would auto complete to “google.com/a”, and i would end up going there. Very annoying.
I searched the Firefox menus but couldn’t find anything to help. I didn’t want to wipe out all of the auto complete entries, I find most of them helpful. I did some research and realized that you can remove these entries manually, but you have to do it in an unconventional way.
How remove those unwanted auto suggest entries
1. The list appears as you type something.
2. Select an entry by pointing you mouse at the item in the list, it will highlight.
3. Press Shift + Delete from your keyboard to delete the entry.
That’s all! You can remove entries from the address bar. This trick works on any Firefox auto complete list, including text fields and other dropdown suggestions.
This also works on windows, mac and linux machines