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Mobile Registry Editor 1.2 Preview

I got an email yesterday asking me if MRE is dead. For the record MRE is still in development but I have taken a break from it to focus other parts of my life (besides tech). Here's an update for those interested. I've re-written MRE in .NET 2.0, made some interface tweaks, added s ...


Posted Feb 02, 2006 @ 9:35 PM | Comments: 89
 
 
Mobile Registry Editor FAQ
Thanks for all the questions and suggestions regarding Mobile Registry Editor, it's nice to see that MRE users have a healthy dose of curiosity. To date I've tried to answer questions individually but with all the work piling up at my day job (yeah I have one) I haven't been able to email everyone back. Going forward I'll try to address the que ...

Posted Aug 08, 2005 @ 3:31 PM | Comments: 154
 
 
Table Tennis Product Strategy
Erik Sink relates software development to table tennis, football and The Oscars. The real message is about marketing and product strategy. You would think he's written about product marketing before.
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Posted Jul 07, 2005 @ 9:25 AM | Comments: 2
 
 
Exchange Direct Push - More pull than push
David Lemson a group program manager for the Exchange team talks about the design and inner workings of Exchange Direct Push. What is Exchange Direct Push? It's what MS marketing has rebrandeed AUTD (Always Up To Date), the system by which Exchange “pushes” data to your phone. ...

Posted Jun 06, 2005 @ 8:20 AM | Comments: 4
 
 
Fat Firefox Favorites
Until last night I still had one minor gripe with Firefox. Its bookmarks menu cuts off the title of my bookmarks when the title greater than 48 characters. I have a lot of bookmarks, probably too many, and lots with more than 60 characters in the title. In FF these appear cut off making it hard to understand where the bookmark goes. IE does th ...

Posted Jun 06, 2005 @ 7:51 AM | Comments: 1
 
 
Grumpy old programmer
Some opinions of a grumpy old programmer.

...it is ridiculous to believe that programming is a Single Discipline. No-one would think of targeting bricklayers, civil engineers and town planners with the same tools, training and trade literatu ...

Posted May 05, 2005 @ 10:53 AM | Comments: 2
 
 
Windows Mobile Application Certification
Over the past month I have received a lot reports that MRE does not work with phones from Orange such as the C500 and E200. After a bit of research and help from a few of you I found that the problem is Orange. They have decided that users should not be able to remotely edit the registry or for that matter install applications that have not bee ...

Posted May 05, 2005 @ 9:59 PM | Comments: 2
 
 
The best developer joke ever
Two strings walk into a bar. The first one says, Bartender! Bartender! I want a drink! The second one says, Bartender! Bartender! I want a drink too! blaaaaaaaaah Eeeeeeeek yaaaaaaak oooooooh. The first one says, Please excuse my friend. He isn't null ter ...

Posted Mar 03, 2005 @ 11:59 PM | Comments: 4
 
 
Backing up a source file with post build events
VS.NET 2003 is amazing but not without its faults. Those that spend a good part of their day using the designer are all to familiar with the InitializeCoponent bug in ASP.NET and the infamous disappearing controls bug in Windows Forms (which still happens even with the hotfix). Both of the bug ...

Posted Jan 01, 2005 @ 11:30 AM | Comments: 1
 
 
Setting the default ActiveSync serial port
Yet another ActiveSync issue! Turns out rebooting the computer running ActiveSync resets the serial port to COM1. Meaning every time I reboot I have to open up ActiveSync connection settings and set the serial connection to use COM4. Thankfully there is a fix.

Point your favorite registry editor to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software \Microsoft\W ...

Posted Oct 10, 2004 @ 12:15 PM | Comments: 0
 
 
ATT Audiovox SMT 5600 and Bluetooth dial-up networking
If you want to setup your AT&T phone as a modem you need look no further than your owner's manual. In fact page 100 reveals exactly how much information you can expect to find on this topic. None. Audiovox was kind enough to put a section in their manual about using your phone as a modem but forgot to actually put anything in it! There is howev ...

Posted Oct 10, 2004 @ 9:47 AM | Comments: 4
 
 
GUI = Green User Interface
yuck! Just think, for the bargain price $27 it could be yours!
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Posted Oct 10, 2004 @ 2:58 PM | Comments: 0
 
 
Plural vs Singular Table Names
As I see it there are two distinct camps regarding this topic. There are those that could care less what method is used as long as it's consistent and used across the board. Then there are those that believe their way of doing things is so infallibly correct that all who dare oppose them should be doused in flaming feces.

Thankfully, I'v ...

Posted Sep 09, 2004 @ 9:27 PM | Comments: 27
 
 
Bending RIS to your will
After RIS (Remote Installation Services) is setup and deploying images at your whim, it's time to start configuring it. Since RIS has no interface most of the customizing is done via config files (text files with .SIF tacked on the end). Hm.. Whatever happened to naming config files with .INI? I guess the developers thought Setup Ins ...

Posted Aug 08, 2004 @ 9:35 AM | Comments: 4