As one who previously used bookmarks with similar zeal, I often finding myself accumulating tabs over several weeks as I encounter content of interest… Usually, the content inspires some desire for review and so grabs a long standing life in my browser tab collection.

In an effort to clear my tab clutter and preserve some level of history for the content, I have decided to start this tab dump series. Essentially, as you have likely already figured out, this will be a list of urls that correspond with content currently open in my tabs – for your viewing pleasure and my historic reference.

The League of Movable Type – http://www.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/
A great collection of Fonts. Much of the content is free and/or open sourced to some degree.

jQuery Image Galleries – http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/jquery-image-galleries-sliders-best-of/
I recently found a need for a rotator for a project that I was working on… This list arose in the search and has remained in my browser since.

HTML5 Showcase - http://www.tripwiremagazine.com/2011/09/html5-website.html
40 Beautiful HTML5 Site Showcase… Went looking for inspiration and found this… Has lived on in my browser for some 3 weeks or so now…

Somebody That I Used To Know – Walk Off The Earth (Goyte Cover) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9NF2edxy-M

TinyToysCraft – Tilt-shift blur in Minecraft - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cA_llLh7tE0&feature=youtu.be

Short list this time – you won’t always be so lucky!  Hopefully this frees up a little memory for non-browser use of the computer!

-Matt

First things first – install WIX from here.

Next, if when you attempt to “vcbuild.bat Release msi” or some similar such command and are greeted with the super awesome error message indicating “error CNDL0103: The system cannot find the file > ‘..\..\..\npm.wxs’” then the build process is unable to locate Heat, which comes with WIX.

For me, the resolution was as simple as ensuring that the Heat.exe (C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Installer XML v3.5\bin\) path was in my Path environmental variable.  Once the duck was in the row, I was able to kick off “vcbuild.bat Release msi” without issue to create my working custom Node.js installer…

Hope this helps!

Edit:  Here is the Discussion Thread on this and my Pull Request to update the installer to include the trailing backslash.

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