Alan Kleymeyer’s Blog

LTYA Rookie (10u) Mets Win Post Season Tournament

The Cardinals beat us in the 2nd round but after defeating the Rays in the loser’s bracket, we faced the Cardinals in the championship game, won, and played them two hours later and beat them decisively 19-7 to win the tournament.

Video Highlights of Season

Kristen’s Video Highlights

David vs JR

This is a video I made from a 1 on 1 XBOX Halo 3 cage match between David and a friend.  I had recently watched the movie Inside Man with Clive Owen where the song Chaiyya Chaiyya was featured.  I liked the song and knew I’d find a video to use it in.

Could not find any resources appropriate for the specified culture

The problem is when you try to declare a class, enum or anything else before you declare the main form class then it generates runtime error because the resource manifest point to an incorrect location.

Kristen’s Breakout game. No turning back now.

Kristen shoots 63% to score 30 of her team’s 38 points.  For the first time she drives to the basket, and makes some unbelievable shots from the outside.

Snow Day Feb 4, 2011 and 1973!

It snowed last night!

Checkout the Snow Day from 1973 on Loyola Lane. Click the picture for a slideshow of that day.

DataGridView

I’ve been working a lot lately with the DataGridView.  One instance of a DataGridView would refuse to be editable even though I checked all the relevant settings (Enabled, EditMode, ReadOnly, RowTemplate.ReadOnly, Columns.ReadOnly).   I had previously missed the RowTemplate.ReadOnly setting  and had it working once I set it to false, but then it stopped working again.  I found that removing the set property for the data members that were specified in the Column Properties DataPropertyName value, was the reason it stopped working.  Kinda makes sense but I wish there was better feedback from VisualStudio to alert me of the mismatched settings.

VMWare Fusion

VMWare has been around for over 10 years.  It’s an amazing piece of technology.  I’ve not had a chance to use it until now.  VMWare let’s you run “virtual” OS s on your computer using virtualization. This is how VMWare defines virtualization:

Today’s x86 computer hardware was designed to run a single operating system and a single application, leaving most machines vastly underutilized. Virtualization lets you run multiple virtual machines on a single physical machine, with each virtual machine sharing the resources of that one physical computer across multiple environments. Different virtual machines can run different operating systems and multiple applications on the same physical computer.

Basically, it means you can run ANY version of Windows on a single Windows PC, or on a single Mac or a single Linux machine.  You can also run any version of Windows on a Mac which is what we have standardized on at TabbedOut. We get 13in Macbook Pros with 4 Meg of memory and a large external monitor.  We then install VMWare and run whatever version of windows we need to on it!  This combined with Spaces for the Mac makes for a pretty nice development environment.

A few notes about VMWare Fusion:

• To rename a VM, go to VM Library, select the VM you want to rename, select settings, then click on the name to change it in place.
• To rename the folder containing a VM, remove the VM from the VM Library by selecting delete and removing it from the list but be sure to KEEP the file so you don’t remove it from disk.  Then just rename the folder and reload it back into the VM Library by using the File…Open command
• To increase the hard drive size of a VM you must delete all snapshots, select hard drive settings and increase the hard drive size. Run the VM and in the OS increase the size of the partition.  For XP you must use a 3rd party app as this is not supported natively.  I used the free EASEUS Home edition.

Explanation of files that make up a VM

Mac Spaces

I’m digging the Spaces feature of the Mac OS.  I should have been using this a long time ago!
If you are unfamiliar with Spaces, the feature gives you multiple “virtual” windows that you can switch between.
It’s like having multiple monitors connected to your computer each with different views of your running apps.

In the Settings for Spaces I redefined the hotkeys that switches between spaces.  It was assigned to <Ctrl>arrows but that prevented me from using those hotkeys to move around (word advance) in Visual Studio (using VMWare).  I reassigned the hotkey to be <option>arrows which had the added benefit of disabling Windows 7 hotkey to resize the current window (which I find annoying).

XCode Tips and Tricks

Looking up how to change the default __MyCompanyName__ string that is inserted in new files, I came across this link titled Quickies for Xcode.

BTW, this is how to do it.  Enter the following command at a Terminal Prompt:

defaults write com.apple.Xcode PBXCustomTemplateMacroDefinitions '{"ORGANIZATIONNAME" = "NewName";}'

New Job with ATX Innovation

This week I started my new job with ATX Innovation, makers of TabbedOut a free iPhone and Android application for paying your restaurant or bar tab eliminating the need to hand over your credit card.