Written by Matrich on 10th March, 2009
For the developers or well-wishers out there into Microsoft programming languages, Microsoft Press recently released Microsoft Press books introducing Visual Studio 2008.
Microsoft Press books deliver the accurate, from-the-source information that you need to take your skills and knowledge to the next level.
There is a free e-book offer where you can some of the chapters from these recent publications:
- Programming Microsoft LINQ by Paolo Pialorsi and Marco Russo
- Programming Microsoft ASP.NET 3.5 by Dino Esposito
- Introducing Microsoft Silverlight 2, Second Edition
Have fun with these new technologies as we prepare for those coming up in Visual Studio 2010.
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Written by Matrich on 9th February, 2009
Lately, I am involved in designing architecture of several applications and planning how the different components of an application should interact with each other and where they should be stored. We work mostly with .NET Framework and I found a great resource of Patterns and Practices Application Architecture Guide 2.0 that focuses on designing applications on the .NET framework.
This guide provides design-level guidance for the architecture and design of applications built on the .NET Framework. It focuses on the most common types of applications, partitioning application functionality into layers, components, and services, and walks through their key design characteristics.This guide is a collaborative effort between patterns & practices, product teams, and industry experts.
What a great opportunity to get how something was designed to work from the originators and experts in that field. This should be very valuable to software architects and developers aiming not only to build something which works but building smart applications using the right tools. It is also supplemented with a Video: Train the Trainer – Application Architecture Guide 2.0 which I hope you will enjoy too.
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Written by Matrich on 30th January, 2009
Recently, I have been working with SharePoint and I started encountering a problem of both Internet Explorer 6 and 7 crashing whenever I would try to open an Office document in a SharePoint document library.
First, I thought that it was a problem with my IE 6 as I didn’t want to upgrade it for purposes of cross-browser testing. However, even after upgrading to IE 7, I was still getting the same problem which made me conclude that it must be a browser/SharePoint problem. Fortunately, it took me less than two minutes to fix. So what was the problem and how did I fix it?
Cause of the Problem
The problem of Internet Explorer crashing/stop responding is caused by having several different versions of Microsoft Office applications. In my case, I have one application of version 2003 and the rest as 2007.
Solution to the Problem
To solve the problem,
download the 2007 Office hotfix package (KB938888) package from the Microsoft Help and Support website.
For more details about this problem, visit http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938888
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Written by Matrich on 21st January, 2009
Many times, designers and developers are contacted by clients directly or indirectly to develop applications, websites, web applications, etc. and yet these clients have no idea of what they exactly want or even what they should expect after the project.
Surprisingly, most of them always ask for the costs which will be involved to complete the project. Of course, to a client, it is not a surprise but to a designer/developer, details of the project are needed to determine if he/she would like to take on the project and obviously to estimate the cost.
The Web Development Project Estimator is a good tool which a designer/developer can roughly use to estimate the cost to help you out with this complexity.
From the tool website,
The Web Development Project Estimator is a simple tool that allows web designers and site developers to quickly and thoroughly estimate the time and materials required for a proposed web project.
To use, simply enter the title of the project and your default hourly rate. Then adjust your anticipated hours accordingly to generate your total project estimate. When finished, you can view your finalized estimate in a print-ready format in case you’d like to save a PDF or print a copy for your records.
Feel free to check it out and suggest any other tool or challenges you face as a developer/designer/consultant. The tool can be used for any other development sort of project you’ve got to estimate the total costs.
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Written by Matrich on 31st December, 2008
It is again the end of year 2008 and I am really grateful to God for His Mercy & Grace over my life. Every year seems to be incredibly more of a testimony having God do lots of great things in my life. I can’t say I am the rightest guy or I have everything I need but for sure, I have seen God move in my life and He has continuously shown Himself both in hard and easy times.
Among several things, it is in this year that I made a year or so of freelancing, travelled to the Netherlands for an academic tour which was terrific, completed all the three semesters of my MSc course, began off my research proposals and joined the biggest telecom in Uganda, MTN Uganda as Analyst Solutions Architecture. All this and many more, I attribute them to God, The Almighty for He is faithful and worthy.
As I await for the new year, so much is awaiting for me BUT I know ALL WILL BE WELL THROUGH CHRIST WHO STRENGTHENS ME.
Great thanks to all who have impacted my life including my dad, mum and family; friend George Appiah and many others for their tremendous support. May God richly bless you all.
To all my fans and well wishers, I wish you a PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR and God Bless You All. Off to church… till next year
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Written by Matrich on 21st October, 2008
Netbeans IDE is one of the famous IDEs used by Java and other programmers and it is especially very good when you are creating graphical user interfaces (GUI) applications.
Lately, I have been working on a java project and I have been facing a problem with using Netbeans on my Microsoft Windows Vista to add external libraries to the project. Normally external libraries are packaged as .jar files.
Whenever I try to click the Add JAR/Folder button as on the screenshot above, instead of getting the Open File dialog, I was getting a java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException error.
Source of the Problem
This is exception is mainly caused because of some incompatibilities issues of the JDK you are using and Microsoft Vista. To be more specific, the java file chooser dialog using WindowsLookAndFeel is incompatible with Ms. Windows Vista on any Java release less than 1.5.0_11 caused by some changes made by Microsoft in Ms. Windows Vista.
Solution to the Problem
To solve this problem,
- Update your JDK to JDK 6 and above
- Ensure that your Netbeans IDE uses the new updated JDK instead of the previous JDK which has been upgraded.
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