I updated all devices at our house today. Ipads, iPhone 4, and iPhone 4s. Everyone now has ios 5 and all devices are backed up and have iCloud working. If you have not ever heard of all the “i” things can you imagine what I just said. Before the iPhone people did not even know what an app was… now we …
Here is a great video tour of Artprize 2011 from people in the crowd. What a great video. The Art of Inspiration from Bill Bergen on Vimeo.
I have started biking into work again. It has been enjoyable and an interesting adventure. This time around I’m using my commuter, a converted mountain bike (Schwinn S9five6 – Purchased in 1995). This is one of my favorite bikes, I’ve had a great amount of fun over the years with this bike. In the last 5 years it …
I’m not a huge person on fashion but I do like watches. I have always had a thing for a good watch. The problem is how you define a good watch. When I was younger it was the most features wins. Stop watch, timer, multi time zones, etc… Now I’m more focused on style and function. For the last 3 …
I currently have many things that I would love to acquire. Some of these I consider great design and others I find as great tools. Seating: Eames Aluminum office chair – a great office chair that is comfortable and also good looking: http://store.hermanmiller.com/Products/Eames-Aluminum-Group-Management-Chair Eames Lounge – I have wanted this chair for years. It would be a great addition to the …
For the last 2 months I have been standing up at work. I’ve borrowed a rolling laptop cart to be my stand up desk. You can see from the pictures that it is adjustable and also has a mouse tray to the side. The stand I am using is an instand, deluxe with roller wheels. Using a standup desk has been a great learning …
While starting to write an android application I had to re-install the Android SDK on my new system. When I did this and tried to execute the Emulator I go the following error: “invalid command-line parameter: Files. Hint: use ‘@foo’ to launch a virtual device named ‘foo’. please use -help for more information” After some google searches and some testing I …
I often find myself following a link from a twitter post or some other blog. Not having the time to read it immediatly I either add it to Readitlater or I email myself. I normally don’t add any comments just the link. What often happens is a few weeks / days / months later I get to reading these links …
I’m a huge fan of a tool called nmap (nmap.org). It is a network tool that can do many things. The most simple is to determine if a host is active. Anytime I connect to any network I run a quick scan to see who my neighbors are on the network. To do a network scan with nmap you only need …
I think it is time to get a new chair for my home office. I recently saw this chair posted on a site and have the desire to get it. The problem is that we don’t use our office that much and a good chair seems like a waste. http://www.westelm.com/products/wrap-office-chair-g047/?pkey=coffice-desks Since we have all laptops in our home, I keep wondering …
The current application I’m working on requires me to publish an MVC 3 Razor web application. I’m using sFTP as the protocol to my hosting provider. After the first publish I was unable to run the application. It kept throwing errors that I was missing assemblies. The first error I got was that the application was missing the Microsoft.Web.Infrastructure.dll. I …
I’ve been really happy with the nuget platform for adding packages to VisualStudio. If you have not yet tried nuget head on over to nuget.org. One of the more recent packages I’ve been using is the mini-profiler. It is a little plug-in (can’t think of another term) that allows you profile a page and elements that are executed. Here is the …
I have been working on a windows 7 phone application. I know, many of you may give me a hard time about developing for winphone7 vs iPhone or android. Well, I’m working on getting to each of them eventually. Currently Phone 7 made sense. So far development has been pretty straight forward. I was adding an application bar to the bottom …
I get all types of security questions from home users. How do I secure my wireless so people can’t use it? How can I make sure people can’t steal files on my computer? How can I keep the kids from going to sites they are not suppose to be on? For the last one, how to secure and block sites I recommend OpenDNS. …
If you use google apps and an iPhone or iPad you have probably tried to add other calendars to your in app calendar application. A very simple way to do this is to use iphoneselect. Iphone select allows you to select the calendars from a webpage and then configure your iPad or iPhone app to sync with them Google APPS: https://www.google.com/calendar/hosted/YOURDOMAINNAME/iphoneselect …