So far, I have been too gun shy to pull the trigger up fumble through the Acme2 process… With the outstanding issues list still holding the video hardware playback problems for Alpha 0.5, I think I may still hold off for a bit…

What about you? Any casual browsers of the site rocking CM9 on their HP Touchpad?  Worth it?

Perhaps I will have a hands-on for you this week… perhaps…

Links:

http://rootzwiki.com/topic/15509-releasealpha05-cyanogenmod-9-touchpad/

http://liliputing.com/2012/01/cyanogenmod-9-alpha-0-5-bug-fix-for-the-hp-touchpad.html

Edit: hands on review soon

After this process, you will be on CM7 a2 (newest Cyanogenmod – steps 1-2) and WebOS 3.0.4 (newest – steps 3).  Once you pull the WebOs update, moboot (what let you pick which OS to boot to) will no longer be the active bootloader.  But we have you covered (steps 4 – 7) – you will be booting via moboot in no time flat!  WOOT!

1) Download CM7 a2 update from here (http://rootzwiki.com/showthread.php?4011)
2) Upgrade to CM7 alpha 2 via clockworkmod Clockworkmod using the file obtained from step 1
3) After CM7 upgrade, reboot into web os and pull 3.0.4 OTA WebOs update
4) Connect Touchpad to PC and put in USB mode.
5) Create ‘cminstall’ folder on touchpad and then copy ‘update-moboot_0.3.3.zip’ to the folder (should have this file from when you installed CM7 a1).
6) Eject Touchpad and restart into USB Mode (Large White USB Icon) by  holding “Power + Volume Up”
7) Locate the ACMEInstaller that you originally loaded CM7a1 on your touchpad with and execute “novacom boot mem:// < ACMEInstaller” from terminal and let it do its magic…

You are up to date to date and dual booting again with the latest and greatest.

Disclaimer: Do this at your own peril.  I accept no responsibility for your clearly questionable judgement – an observation supported by your doing of random things that strangers on the Interwebs tell you to do to your expensive electronic devices for hopes of some supposed small technical gain… You have been warned of your insanity. This said, everything here worked perfectly for me

Unlike a 4yr old fighting sleep, I am not tired.
I just do not want to go quickly nor quietly as my weekend is tore from me.

We were not done enjoying each others company nor ready to relinquish our time.

Under what authority am I being forced to forge ahead into yet another Monday?!

A travesty, I say!

I still assert that we ought time travel to meet with the man who originally setup the week of 5-and-2 -
So that we may have a very direct conversation about his askew arrangement
and impose our argument to right his horrible, horrible wrong.

Bah. Hum. Hum and Bah.

-Matt

Of course, the next logical step in this process is to post the first post of mattezell.info v2.0 (ok, so perhaps like v12.0, but who can keep count?!).

Check back often… or not.. if history is any indicator, who knows when I will post again

The pre-compiled Droid X Bootstrapper from Koush.

Just thought I would leave this here for you guys…

“SelectedValue which is invalid because it does not exist in the list of items”

Although Googling turned up a lot of results, I could not really find anything that fit the bill as a solution.  I did find a few threads on StackOverflow, though usually these discussions were followed up with additional people asking how the original asker resolved the issue.

For me, it turns out that I was calling the block of code that performed the list population and databind multiple times.  Populating and calling DataBind on this DropDownList multiple times, resulted in the above error.  In the end (after much forehead beating), the solution was an easy one – checking items before attempting to populate and bind to ensure the list was not already initialized.

if (yourDropDownList.Items.Count() == 0) //only populate and bind if not already done…
{
//populate and bind
}

That is it – just checking to ensure the items for the drop down list have not already been populated.  Of course, you really should have your application structured so that this logic is only hit once…. This said, if a complete refactor/rewrite is not in the cards for your application at this time, you can just perform this simple check to work around the exception.

Hope this helps someone!

-Matt

On my Ubuntu 10.10 machine with CouchDB 1.0.1 installed, I began experiencing the following error every time I attempted to ‘couchapp push’ my couchapp changes:

[CRITICAL] Expecting object: line 2 column 3 (char 4)

After a bit of noggin scratching (and perhaps a little mumbled cussing), I started thinking about the fact I had not upgraded my couchapp install since long before I last upgraded CouchDb.

Running the following cleared up all error and put me back in the happy land of  ’couchapp push’:

“easy_install -U couchapp”

Yup… Just a version issue…  Hope this saves someone a few gray hairs…

-Matt

Sometimes Vino-Server on Ubuntu can be flaky, preventing me from logging in, even though it is showing as running. I recently stumbled onto a helpful thread at UbuntuForums that assisted me…

Using the following, you should be able to get Vino back to behaving…

you@machine-name:~$ export DISPLAY=:0.0
you@machine-name:~$ /usr/lib/vino/vino-server &

I find this particularly useful when I am able to SSH in, but can’t VNC…

Hope this helps someone!

-Matt

None the less, that is not the case (me withering and drying) as I have just been really, really (really) busy reading and trying to get myself up to speed as a professional programmer… Something that I am enjoying emensely (even though it sometimes feels as if I will never ever (ever) know enough to take a breath again – GOOD THING IT’S SUPA FUN!).

Speaking of something I have recently enjoyed (and my reason for sitting down 15 mins ago to begin writing this) – watching Inception (I’ll wait while you see what it is if you don’t know)… Oddly, there is more related between the first part of this post (developing as a developer) and the fun provided by Inception – conceptually at least… I have to say, I was genuinely entertained at the layering and constant thought provoking representations of recursion and Big-O concepts… I won’t go into it much more than that, but if you find this stuff interesting, you will likely enjoy aspects of the movie that may perhaps will be overlooked by “other watchers” of Inception.  Funny thing is, I get back home, head over to browse hacker news and quickly come to the realization that I was not alone in my CS-centric thoughts about the film – http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1526104

Aside from the mentally stimulating representation of CS-Theory-related concepts, there is PLENTY of eye-candy by way of perty explosions and mind-bending (and physically defying) scenery to keep you entertained – even if the exotic applications of recursion aren’t your cup of tea.

I’d give Inception an ‘A’.

As anyone with one themselves can attest, I have found my BS-in-CS to have largely left me unprepared for ‘professional programming’.  Yes, I understand the underlying concepts of lists and arrays (having been made to make them in C++ from scratch, with little emphasis or even mention of the STL), grasp the ‘big-picture’ of OO-Based Design (“Everything is an object” – I get it!) and the RAD paradigm, BUT little was I imparted with knowledge in regards to the Software Development Life-cycle – or – how programming is really done. A mere handful of chapters in the whole 4 years – not nearly enough to prepare me for what programming ‘really is’.

This said, I am very lucky to be amongst a group of guys who not only grasp how to develop – But that live and breath it as well.  It is with hopeful optimism that I say: “I hope that I am lucky enough to stay around long enough to at least soak up 50% of what these guys know”…  Programming is fun… I wish that I would have learned that in school…