We run lots of batch processes overnight. We do this to send emails, to generate reports, etc… We do all this via Windows Scheduled Tasks. It works great. Recently, I needed to add a new scheduled task.  I went through the process of adding the task but when I tried to run it, it failed.  The error message I got was “Could not start task“ What?  I’m an admin on the box aren’t I?  What’s going on here? ...

We’re approaching delivery of the baby!  In the next few months, we’ll be releasing our product.  This is great news as it’s been a long time coming.  As is the norm, we’ve been developing our product in Debug mode.  While in Debug mode, Visual Studio will generate extra files to allow stepping through the code.  This is a great thing for creating the initial code, but it’s not necessary for code that’s...

Wow… just… wow.  This took a long time to figure out.  I was trying to create and use a custom UIButton in an iOS project.  Everytime I tried it, the app would open and immediately close.  Typical crash behavior. As is the norm, I opened the console.  This is my first step in trying to figure out what the heck is going on. So after I opened the console, I built the application and ran it. That’s where I found it.  The...

As you’ve probably gathered, I (proudly) consider myself a Mac guy.  I have spent enough money on Apple products to allow El Jobso to get an extra cup of coffee every day for the rest of his life.  I do a lot of work on my Macs.  But I’ve been a Windows developer since… well, nearly forever. Habits are ingrained very deeply in people that do something all the time.  Something like typing!  Using text editors, code editors,...

Recently, we’ve had some fairly serious problems on our network. This has led to the admin staff removing our network profiles. It was an accident, but it still happend. The problem is now that the entire IT staff has to reconfigure our workstations. We’re using Visual Studio 2008 for our web applications. I finally got my code base updated via Subversion (no small feat) and tried to open a solution. I was presented with an error...