General
Nexus One – Android 2 – Eclipse
Jan 15th
Decided to revisit Android development due to the release of Google’s Nexus One Phone
Here are my steps so far:
- Download and install Eclipse Development environment from here [eclipse-jee-galileo-SR1-win32.zip ]
- Simply extract this to say, c:\eclipse
- Run eclipse
- Install Google’s ADT Plugin for Eclipse from here
- Download and install the SDK from here – in this case – up to Android 2.1, API 7, revision 1
- Extract above and run SDK Setup.exe – l had to to to the settings on the left hand side and check “force http…”, then choose accept all.
Nexus One…
Jan 5th
Check out the recently announced cool new Google phone – Nexus one. This might be the iPhone killer phone, especially with its apps, 800×480 wvga amoled touch display, gsm support, android os and Qualcomm QSD 8250 1 GHz processor.
Unlocked or with a contract, your best bet for getting it is from t-Mobile, since this phone does not woork on at&t, verizon or sprint frequency band but it supports most common world-wide gsm bands.
Click here for the Nexus One homepage, and here for the technical specifications.
2010
Jan 1st
Wishing you all peace and prosperity this new year!
Check out this New year celebrations video.
Here are a couple of quotes to start the year…
“Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful.”
“Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine.”
And finally as Mark Twain said:
“New Year’s Day: Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.”
China in Video 2009….
Dec 16th
Videos l converted to wmv – windows media format from HD using Adobe CS4 Media Encoder, taken by a friend James Soult on his recent trip to China using his Canon Vixia HD camcorder.
My videos Shanghai China 2006
SQL Azure
Dec 6th
SQL Azure is a fully relational database in the cloud by Microsoft.
See this link for the main website.
For how to connect to Azure using ADO.Net heres a good link from msdn and another link which l’m currently using to work on plugging the northwind sample database to azure and using a WPF datagrid view to present the data.
Ham Radio…
Nov 23rd
Took and passed my General ham license examination today at Round Table Pizza, Barbur blvd, Portland, OR and l passed on 1st attempt!
Got my CSCE – Certificate of successful completion of examination – valid for l year until the arrl webpage system has mu updated class information posted. Same ARRL call sign – ke7geb.
Cant wait to be able to get a HF radio,powerful outside antenna etc. with which to attempt reaching people as far away as africa, and beyond.
This is k-e-7-g-e-b signing out [CN]….
2012..
Nov 18th
This is the most amazing, stunning, moving movie l’ve seen in a while. And it brings in people from places like India, China, Russia into the movie produced by Ronald Emmerich – as well as this rising British actor born of Nigerian parents actor Chiwetel Ejiofor . Heres a link to the movies website - cost $200 million. Here also is a link to Uncharted Territory - the visual effects creators. Cant wait for the Blue-Ray HD disc release.
Notes:
Unchartered territory currently has a 400 node render farm. Double negative, has currently a 600 blade render farm, and usually volumetric renders take about 60 hours.frame! – their latest project includes the movie Avatar - software used include Maya & Houdini.
Future of the web..
Nov 3rd
Interesting article on the future of the web, where will we be in five years? Click here for the article.
Clickonce deployment issue….
Oct 30th
While deploying a Visual Studio Winform application using clickonce, the publishing goes okay but when l tried to run the setup program, l get this error message:
System Update required – The application requires that system.web.extensions version 1.0.61025.0 be installed in the global assemble cache (GAC) first.”
Clicking on the project properties in Visual Studio.Net, then references, l noticed this file exisits under C:\Program Files\Microsoft ASP.NET\ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Extensions\v1.0.61025 – l copied this in a local \lib\ folder in my application source project folder, and referenced directly to it, rebuilt the application, republished it to our company shared folder and re-ran the setup.
collection_set_3_upload job keeps failing on uploading Query Statistics – SQL Server 2008
Oct 13th
Keep getting the error messages below from the logs:
To view the detailed logs in SSMS 2008:
Drill down on
Management -> data collection -> query statistics -> view logs
====== Error Messages Below=====
Event
Data Code
Message
SSIS error. Component name: DFT – Upload collection snapshot, Code: -1073450974, Subcomponent: SSIS.Pipeline, Description: SSIS Error Code DTS_E_PROCESSINPUTFAILED. The ProcessInput method on component “ODS – Upload snapshots into active_sessions_and_requests table” (2686) failed with error code 0xC0209029 while processing input “OLE DB Destination Input” (2699). The identified component returned an error from the ProcessInput method. The error is specific to the component, but the error is fatal and will cause the Data Flow task to stop running. There may be error messages posted before this with more information about the failure.
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Message
SSIS Error Code DTS_E_OLEDBERROR. An OLE DB error has occurred. Error code: 0×80004005.
An OLE DB record is available. Source: “Microsoft SQL Server Native Client 10.0″ Hresult: 0×80004005 Description: “Invalid character value for cast specification”.
An OLE DB record is available. Source: “Microsoft SQL Server Native Client 10.0″ Hresult: 0×80004005 Description: “Invalid character value for cast specification”.
An OLE DB record is available. Source: “Microsoft SQL Server Native Client 10.0″ Hresult: 0×80004005 Description: “Invalid character value for cast specification”.
An OLE DB record is available. Source: “Microsoft SQL Server Native Client 10.0″ Hresult: 0×80004005 Description: “Invalid character value for cast specification”.
An OLE DB record is available. Source: “Microsoft SQL Server Native Client 10.0″ Hresult: 0×80004005 Description: “Invalid character value for cast specification”.
==========
Event OnError
Data Code -1071607780
Message
There was an error with input column “collection_time” (2778) on input “OLE DB Destination Input” (2699). The column status returned was: “Conversion failed because the data value overflowed the specified type.”.
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Package Execution ID
Event OnError
Data Code -1071607767
Message
SSIS Error Code DTS_E_INDUCEDTRANSFORMFAILUREONERROR. The “input “OLE DB Destination Input” (2699)” failed because error code 0xC020907A occurred, and the error row disposition on “input “OLE DB Destination Input” (2699)” specifies failure on error. An error occurred on the specified object of the specified component. There may be error messages posted before this with more information about the failure.
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Package Execution ID
Event OnError
Data Code -1073450974
Message
SSIS Error Code DTS_E_PROCESSINPUTFAILED. The ProcessInput method on component “ODS – Upload snapshots into active_sessions_and_requests table” (2686) failed with error code 0xC0209029 while processing input “OLE DB Destination Input” (2699). The identified component returned an error from the ProcessInput method. The error is specific to the component, but the error is fatal and will cause the Data Flow task to stop running. There may be error messages posted before this with more information about the failure.
Read the article on this link.
Solution above essentially worked for me, l changed my retries to 4 from 2 and re-ran the job. It ran okay. Still investigating this in depth.
