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• Time to Get Started with Oracle Data Integrator 12c!

  - by Sandrine Riley

  v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} .shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);} It is time to get started with Oracle Data Integrator 12c! We would like to highlight for you a great place to begin your journey with ODI.  Here you will find the Getting Started section for ODI, which provides a few options. v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} .shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);} Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0in; mso-para-margin-right:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;} Step 1 – Start by downloading the Getting Started (PDF). The document provides general background information and detailed examples to help you learn how to use Oracle Data Integrator. This document guides you through a first project with Oracle Data Integrator 12c, and the instructions in this document are required for using the Getting Started Demonstration Environment. If you would like to run the Getting Started Demonstration Environment on your system go to Step 2 A. If you would like to run the Getting Started Demonstration Environment installed and pre-configured in a Virtual Image, go to Step 2 B. Step 2 - A-   A -  If you would like to run the Getting Started Demo Environment on your system, you will want to then download the Demo Environment for Getting Started (ZIP) archive containing ODI metadata, configuration scripts and sample data. B-   B -  Alternatively, a pre-configured virtual machine is available with the Getting Started installation and configuration. The Virtual Machine platform uses Oracle Virtual Box technology, and use of this configuration would necessitate the download/installation of Virtual Box and the Getting Started virtual machine. If you prefer this route and would rather run the Getting Started Demonstration Environment installed and preconfigured in a Virtual Machine, please download the ODI 12c Getting Started Virtual Machine. Step 3 – In continuation with the Getting Started Demonstration Environment and the Getting Started Guide, you will now be able to run through a first project with Oracle Data Integrator. Now that you have successfully done the exercises above, you may want to play on your own, and develop with Oracle Data Integrator on your environment...  here you can download a full version of Oracle Data Integrator 12c.  Enjoy, and happy developing! Learn more about Oracle Data Integrator; including FAQ, the Oracle by Example Series, Sample Code, and White Papers. Normal 0 false false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0in; mso-para-margin-right:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;}

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• Quadratic Programming with Oracle R Enterprise

  - by Jeff Taylor-Oracle

       I wanted to use quadprog with ORE on a server running Oracle Solaris 11.2 on a Oracle SPARC T-4 server For background, see: Oracle SPARC T4-2 http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23075_01/ Oracle Solaris 11.2 http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/solaris11/overview/index.html quadprog: Functions to solve Quadratic Programming Problems http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/quadprog/index.html Oracle R Enterprise 1.4 ("ORE") 1.4 http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/options/advanced-analytics/r-enterprise/ore-downloads-1502823.html Problem: path to Solaris Studio doesn't match my installation: $ ORE CMD INSTALL quadprog_1.5-5.tar.gz * installing to library \u2018/u01/app/oracle/product/12.1.0/dbhome_1/R/library\u2019 * installing *source* package \u2018quadprog\u2019 ... ** package \u2018quadprog\u2019 successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked ** libs /opt/SunProd/studio12u3/solarisstudio12.3/bin/f95 -m64   -PIC  -g  -c aind.f -o aind.o bash: /opt/SunProd/studio12u3/solarisstudio12.3/bin/f95: No such file or directory *** Error code 1 make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `aind.o' ERROR: compilation failed for package \u2018quadprog\u2019 * removing \u2018/u01/app/oracle/product/12.1.0/dbhome_1/R/library/quadprog\u2019 $ ls -l /opt/solarisstudio12.3/bin/f95 lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root          15 Aug 19 17:36 /opt/solarisstudio12.3/bin/f95 -> ../prod/bin/f90 Solution: a symbolic link: $ sudo mkdir -p /opt/SunProd/studio12u3 $ sudo ln -s /opt/solarisstudio12.3 /opt/SunProd/studio12u3/ Now, it is all good: $ ORE CMD INSTALL quadprog_1.5-5.tar.gz * installing to library \u2018/u01/app/oracle/product/12.1.0/dbhome_1/R/library\u2019 * installing *source* package \u2018quadprog\u2019 ... ** package \u2018quadprog\u2019 successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked ** libs /opt/SunProd/studio12u3/solarisstudio12.3/bin/f95 -m64   -PIC  -g  -c aind.f -o aind.o /opt/SunProd/studio12u3/solarisstudio12.3/bin/ cc -xc99 -m64 -I/usr/lib/64/R/include -DNDEBUG -KPIC  -xlibmieee  -c init.c -o init.o /opt/SunProd/studio12u3/solarisstudio12.3/bin/f95 -m64  -PIC -g  -c -o solve.QP.compact.o solve.QP.compact.f /opt/SunProd/studio12u3/solarisstudio12.3/bin/f95 -m64  -PIC -g  -c -o solve.QP.o solve.QP.f /opt/SunProd/studio12u3/solarisstudio12.3/bin/f95 -m64   -PIC  -g  -c util.f -o util.o /opt/SunProd/studio12u3/solarisstudio12.3/bin/ cc -xc99 -m64 -G -o quadprog.so aind.o init.o solve.QP.compact.o solve.QP.o util.o -xlic_lib=sunperf -lsunmath -lifai -lsunimath -lfai -lfai2 -lfsumai -lfprodai -lfminlai -lfmaxlai -lfminvai -lfmaxvai -lfui -lfsu -lsunmath -lmtsk -lm -lifai -lsunimath -lfai -lfai2 -lfsumai -lfprodai -lfminlai -lfmaxlai -lfminvai -lfmaxvai -lfui -lfsu -lsunmath -lmtsk -lm -L/usr/lib/64/R/lib -lR installing to /u01/app/oracle/product/12.1.0/dbhome_1/R/library/quadprog/libs ** R ** preparing package for lazy loading ** help *** installing help indices   converting help for package \u2018quadprog\u2019     finding HTML links ... done     solve.QP                                html      solve.QP.compact                        html  ** building package indices ** testing if installed package can be loaded * DONE (quadprog) ====== Here is an example from http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/quadprog/quadprog.pdf > require(quadprog) > Dmat <- matrix(0,3,3) > diag(Dmat) <- 1 > dvec <- c(0,5,0) > Amat <- matrix(c(-4,-3,0,2,1,0,0,-2,1),3,3) > bvec <- c(-8,2,0) > solve.QP(Dmat,dvec,Amat,bvec=bvec) $solution [1] 0.4761905 1.0476190 2.0952381 $value [1] -2.380952 $unconstrained.solution [1] 0 5 0 $iterations [1] 3 0 $Lagrangian [1] 0.0000000 0.2380952 2.0952381 $iact [1] 3 2 Here, the standard example is modified to work with Oracle R Enterprise require(ORE) ore.connect("my-name", "my-sid", "my-host", "my-pass", 1521) ore.doEval(   function () {     require(quadprog)   } ) ore.doEval(   function () {     Dmat <- matrix(0,3,3)     diag(Dmat) <- 1     dvec <- c(0,5,0)     Amat <- matrix(c(-4,-3,0,2,1,0,0,-2,1),3,3)     bvec <- c(-8,2,0)    solve.QP(Dmat,dvec,Amat,bvec=bvec)   } ) $solution [1] 0.4761905 1.0476190 2.0952381 $value [1] -2.380952 $unconstrained.solution [1] 0 5 0 $iterations [1] 3 0 $Lagrangian [1] 0.0000000 0.2380952 2.0952381 $iact [1] 3 2 Now I can combine the quadprog compute algorithms with the Oracle R Enterprise Database engine functionality: Scale to large datasets Access to tables, views, and external tables in the database, as well as those accessible through database links Use SQL query parallel execution Use in-database statistical and data mining functionality

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• Access Control Service v2: Registering Web Identities in your Applications [concepts]

  - by Your DisplayName here!

  ACS v2 support two fundamental types of client identities– I like to call them “enterprise identities” (WS-*) and “web identities” (Google, LiveID, OpenId in general…). I also see two different “mind sets” when it comes to application design using the above identity types: Enterprise identities – often the fact that a client can present a token from a trusted identity provider means he is a legitimate user of the application. Trust relationships and authorization details have been negotiated out of band (often on paper). Web identities – the fact that a user can authenticate with Google et al does not necessarily mean he is a legitimate (or registered) user of an application. Typically additional steps are necessary (like filling out a form, email confirmation etc). Sometimes also a mixture of both approaches exist, for the sake of this post, I will focus on the web identity case. I got a number of questions how to implement the web identity scenario and after some conversations it turns out it is the old authentication vs. authorization problem that gets in the way. Many people use the IsAuthenticated property on IIdentity to make security decisions in their applications (or deny user=”?” in ASP.NET terms). That’s a very natural thing to do, because authentication was done inside the application and we knew exactly when the IsAuthenticated condition is true. Been there, done that. Guilty ;) The fundamental difference between these “old style” apps and federation is, that authentication is not done by the application anymore. It is done by a third party service, and in the case of web identity providers, in services that are not under our control (nor do we have a formal business relationship with these providers). Now the issue is, when you switch to ACS, and someone with a Google account authenticates, indeed IsAuthenticated is true – because that’s what he is! This does not mean, that he is also authorized to use the application. It just proves he was able to authenticate with Google. Now this obviously leads to confusion. How can we solve that? Easy answer: We have to deal with authentication and authorization separately. Job done ;) For many application types I see this general approach: Application uses ACS for authentication (maybe both enterprise and web identities, we focus on web identities but you could easily have a dual approach here) Application offers to authenticate (or sign in) via web identity accounts like LiveID, Google, Facebook etc. Application also maintains a database of its “own” users. Typically you want to store additional information about the user In such an application type it is important to have a unique identifier for your users (think the primary key of your user database). What would that be? Most web identity provider (and all the standard ACS v2 supported ones) emit a NameIdentifier claim. This is a stable ID for the client (scoped to the relying party – more on that later). Furthermore ACS emits a claims identifying the identity provider (like the original issuer concept in WIF). When you combine these two values together, you can be sure to have a unique identifier for the user, e.g.: Facebook-134952459903700\799880347 You can now check on incoming calls, if the user is already registered and if yes, swap the ACS claims with claims coming from your user database. One claims would maybe be a role like “Registered User” which can then be easily used to do authorization checks in the application. The WIF claims authentication manager is a perfect place to do the claims transformation. If the user is not registered, show a register form. Maybe you can use some claims from the identity provider to pre-fill form fields. (see here where I show how to use the Facebook API to fetch additional user properties). After successful registration (which may include other mechanisms like a confirmation email), flip the bit in your database to make the web identity a registered user. This is all very theoretical. In the next post I will show some code and provide a download link for the complete sample. More on NameIdentifier Identity providers “guarantee” that the name identifier for a given user in your application will always be the same. But different applications (in the case of ACS – different ACS namespaces) will see different name identifiers. This is by design to protect the privacy of users because identical name identifiers could be used to create “profiles” of some sort for that user. In technical terms they create the name identifier approximately like this: name identifier = Hash((Provider Internal User ID) + (Relying Party Address)) Why is this important to know? Well – when you change the name of your ACS namespace, the name identifiers will change as well and you will will lose your “connection” to your existing users. Oh an btw – never use any other claims (like email address or name) to form a unique ID – these can often be changed by users.

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• What Counts for A DBA - Logic

  - by drsql

  "There are 10 kinds of people in the world. Those who will always wonder why there are only two items in my list and those who will figured it out the first time they saw this very old joke."  Those readers who will give up immediately and get frustrated with me for not explaining it to them are not likely going to be great technical professionals of any sort, much less a programmer or administrator who will be constantly dealing with the common failures that make up a DBA's day.  Many of these people will stare at this like a dog staring at a traffic signal and still have no more idea of how to decipher the riddle. Without explanation they will give up, call the joke "stupid" and, feeling quite superior, walk away indignantly to their job likely flipping patties of meat-by-product. As a data professional or any programmer who has strayed  to this very data-oriented blog, you would, if you are worth your weight in air, either have recognized immediately what was going on, or felt a bit ignorant.  Your friends are chuckling over the joke, but why is it funny? Unfortunately you left your smartphone at home on the dresser because you were up late last night programming and were running late to work (again), so you will either have to fake a laugh or figure it out.  Digging through the joke, you figure out that the word "two" is the most important part, since initially the joke mentioned 10. Hmm, why did they spell out two, but not ten? Maybe 10 could be interpreted a different way?  As a DBA, this sort of logic comes into play every day, and sometimes it doesn't involve nerdy riddles or Star Wars folklore.  When you turn on your computer and get the dreaded blue screen of death, you don't immediately cry to the help desk and sit on your thumbs and whine about not being able to work. Do that and your co-workers will question your nerd-hood; I know I certainly would. You figure out the problem, and when you have it narrowed down, you call the help desk and tell them what the problem is, usually having to explain that yes, you did in fact try to reboot before calling.  Of course, sometimes humility does come in to play when you reach the end of your abilities, but the ‘end of abilities’ is not something any of us recognize readily. It is handy to have the ability to use logic to solve uncommon problems: It becomes especially useful when you are trying to solve a data-related problem such as a query performance issue, and the way that you approach things will tell your coworkers a great deal about your abilities.  The novice is likely to immediately take the approach of  trying to add more indexes or blaming the hardware. As you become more and more experienced, it becomes increasingly obvious that performance issues are a very complex topic. A query may be slow for a myriad of reasons, from concurrency issues, a poor query plan because of a parameter value (like parameter sniffing,) poor coding standards, or just because it is a complex query that is going to be slow sometimes. Some queries that you will deal with may have twenty joins and hundreds of search criteria, and it can take a lot of thought to determine what is going on.  You can usually figure out the problem to almost any query by using basic knowledge of how joins and queries work, together with the help of such things as the query plan, profiler or monitoring tools.  It is not unlikely that it can take a full day’s work to understand some queries, breaking them down into smaller queries to find a very tiny problem. Not every time will you actually find the problem, and it is part of the process to occasionally admit that the problem is random, and everything works fine now.  Sometimes, it is necessary to realize that a problem is outside of your current knowledge, and admit temporary defeat: You can, at least, narrow down the source of the problem by looking logically at all of the possible solutions. By doing this, you can satisfy your curiosity and learn more about what the actual problem was. For example, in the joke, had you never been exposed to the concept of binary numbers, there is no way you could have known that binary - 10 = decimal - 2, but you could have logically come to the conclusion that 10 must not mean ten in the context of the joke, and at that point you are that much closer to getting the joke and at least won't feel so ignorant.

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• Implementing a Custom Coherence PartitionAssignmentStrategy

  - by jpurdy

  A recent A-Team engagement required the development of a custom PartitionAssignmentStrategy (PAS). By way of background, a PAS is an implementation of a Java interface that controls how a Coherence partitioned cache service assigns partitions (primary and backup copies) across the available set of storage-enabled members. While seemingly straightforward, this is actually a very difficult problem to solve. Traditionally, Coherence used a distributed algorithm spread across the cache servers (and as of Coherence 3.7, this is still the default implementation). With the introduction of the PAS interface, the model of operation was changed so that the logic would run solely in the cache service senior member. Obviously, this makes the development of a custom PAS vastly less complex, and in practice does not introduce a significant single point of failure/bottleneck. Note that Coherence ships with a default PAS implementation but it is not used by default. Further, custom PAS implementations are uncommon (this engagement was the first custom implementation that we know of). The particular implementation mentioned above also faced challenges related to managing multiple backup copies but that won't be discussed here. There were a few challenges that arose during design and implementation: Naive algorithms had an unreasonable upper bound of computational cost. There was significant complexity associated with configurations where the member count varied significantly between physical machines. Most of the complexity of a PAS is related to rebalancing, not initial assignment (which is usually fairly simple). A custom PAS may need to solve several problems simultaneously, such as: Ensuring that each member has a similar number of primary and backup partitions (e.g. each member has the same number of primary and backup partitions) Ensuring that each member carries similar responsibility (e.g. the most heavily loaded member has no more than one partition more than the least loaded). Ensuring that each partition is on the same member as a corresponding local resource (e.g. for applications that use partitioning across message queues, to ensure that each partition is collocated with its corresponding message queue). Ensuring that a given member holds no more than a given number of partitions (e.g. no member has more than 10 partitions) Ensuring that backups are placed far enough away from the primaries (e.g. on a different physical machine or a different blade enclosure) Achieving the above goals while ensuring that partition movement is minimized. These objectives can be even more complicated when the topology of the cluster is irregular. For example, if multiple cluster members may exist on each physical machine, then clearly the possibility exists that at certain points (e.g. following a member failure), the number of members on each machine may vary, in certain cases significantly so. Consider the case where there are three physical machines, with 3, 3 and 9 members each (respectively). This introduces complexity since the backups for the 9 members on the the largest machine must be spread across the other 6 members (to ensure placement on different physical machines), preventing an even distribution. For any given problem like this, there are usually reasonable compromises available, but the key point is that objectives may conflict under extreme (but not at all unlikely) circumstances. The most obvious general purpose partition assignment algorithm (possibly the only general purpose one) is to define a scoring function for a given mapping of partitions to members, and then apply that function to each possible permutation, selecting the most optimal permutation. This would result in N! (factorial) evaluations of the scoring function. This is clearly impractical for all but the smallest values of N (e.g. a partition count in the single digits). It's difficult to prove that more efficient general purpose algorithms don't exist, but the key take away from this is that algorithms will tend to either have exorbitant worst case performance or may fail to find optimal solutions (or both) -- it is very important to be able to show that worst case performance is acceptable. This quickly leads to the conclusion that the problem must be further constrained, perhaps by limiting functionality or by using domain-specific optimizations. Unfortunately, it can be very difficult to design these more focused algorithms. In the specific case mentioned, we constrained the solution space to very small clusters (in terms of machine count) with small partition counts and supported exactly two backup copies, and accepted the fact that partition movement could potentially be significant (preferring to solve that issue through brute force). We then used the out-of-the-box PAS implementation as a fallback, delegating to it for configurations that were not supported by our algorithm. Our experience was that the PAS interface is quite usable, but there are intrinsic challenges to designing PAS implementations that should be very carefully evaluated before committing to that approach.

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• Is it feasible and useful to auto-generate some code of unit tests?

  - by skiwi

  Earlier today I have come up with an idea, based upon a particular real use case, which I would want to have checked for feasability and usefulness. This question will feature a fair chunk of Java code, but can be applied to all languages running inside a VM, and maybe even outside. While there is real code, it uses nothing language-specific, so please read it mostly as pseudo code. The idea Make unit testing less cumbersome by adding in some ways to autogenerate code based on human interaction with the codebase. I understand this goes against the principle of TDD, but I don't think anyone ever proved that doing TDD is better over first creating code and then immediatly therafter the tests. This may even be adapted to be fit into TDD, but that is not my current goal. To show how it is intended to be used, I'll copy one of my classes here, for which I need to make unit tests. public class PutMonsterOnFieldAction implements PlayerAction { private final int handCardIndex; private final int fieldMonsterIndex; public PutMonsterOnFieldAction(final int handCardIndex, final int fieldMonsterIndex) { this.handCardIndex = Arguments.requirePositiveOrZero(handCardIndex, "handCardIndex"); this.fieldMonsterIndex = Arguments.requirePositiveOrZero(fieldMonsterIndex, "fieldCardIndex"); } @Override public boolean isActionAllowed(final Player player) { Objects.requireNonNull(player, "player"); Hand hand = player.getHand(); Field field = player.getField(); if (handCardIndex >= hand.getCapacity()) { return false; } if (fieldMonsterIndex >= field.getMonsterCapacity()) { return false; } if (field.hasMonster(fieldMonsterIndex)) { return false; } if (!(hand.get(handCardIndex) instanceof MonsterCard)) { return false; } return true; } @Override public void performAction(final Player player) { Objects.requireNonNull(player); if (!isActionAllowed(player)) { throw new PlayerActionNotAllowedException(); } Hand hand = player.getHand(); Field field = player.getField(); field.setMonster(fieldMonsterIndex, (MonsterCard)hand.play(handCardIndex)); } } We can observe the need for the following tests: Constructor test with valid input Constructor test with invalid inputs isActionAllowed test with valid input isActionAllowed test with invalid inputs performAction test with valid input performAction test with invalid inputs My idea mainly focuses on the isActionAllowed test with invalid inputs. Writing these tests is not fun, you need to ensure a number of conditions and you check whether it really returns false, this can be extended to performAction, where an exception needs to be thrown in that case. The goal of my idea is to generate those tests, by indicating (through GUI of IDE hopefully) that you want to generate tests based on a specific branch. The implementation by example User clicks on "Generate code for branch if (handCardIndex >= hand.getCapacity())". Now the tool needs to find a case where that holds. (I haven't added the relevant code as that may clutter the post ultimately) To invalidate the branch, the tool needs to find a handCardIndex and hand.getCapacity() such that the condition >= holds. It needs to construct a Player with a Hand that has a capacity of at least 1. It notices that the capacity private int of Hand needs to be at least 1. It searches for ways to set it to 1. Fortunately it finds a constructor that takes the capacity as an argument. It uses 1 for this. Some more work needs to be done to succesfully construct a Player instance, involving the creation of objects that have constraints that can be seen by inspecting the source code. It has found the hand with the least capacity possible and is able to construct it. Now to invalidate the test it will need to set handCardIndex = 1. It constructs the test and asserts it to be false (the returned value of the branch) What does the tool need to work? In order to function properly, it will need the ability to scan through all source code (including JDK code) to figure out all constraints. Optionally this could be done through the javadoc, but that is not always used to indicate all constraints. It could also do some trial and error, but it pretty much stops if you cannot attach source code to compiled classes. Then it needs some basic knowledge of what the primitive types are, including arrays. And it needs to be able to construct some form of "modification trees". The tool knows that it needs to change a certain variable to a different value in order to get the correct testcase. Hence it will need to list all possible ways to change it, without using reflection obviously. What this tool will not replace is the need to create tailored unit tests that tests all kinds of conditions when a certain method actually works. It is purely to be used to test methods when they invalidate constraints. My questions: Is creating such a tool feasible? Would it ever work, or are there some obvious problems? Would such a tool be useful? Is it even useful to automatically generate these testcases at all? Could it be extended to do even more useful things? Does, by chance, such a project already exist and would I be reinventing the wheel? If not proven useful, but still possible to make such thing, I will still consider it for fun. If it's considered useful, then I might make an open source project for it depending on the time. For people searching more background information about the used Player and Hand classes in my example, please refer to this repository. At the time of writing the PutMonsterOnFieldAction has not been uploaded to the repo yet, but this will be done once I'm done with the unit tests.

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• Thinking differently about BI delivery

  - by jamiet

  My day job involves implementing Business Intelligence (BI) solutions which, as I have said before, is simply about giving people the information they need to do their jobs. I’m always interested in learning about new ways of achieving that aim and that is my motivation for writing blog entries that are not concerned with SQL or SQL Server per se. Implementing BI systems usually involves hacking together a bunch third party products with some in-house “glue” and delivering information using some shiny, expensive web-based front-end tool; the list of vendors that supply such tools is big and ever-growing. No doubt these tools have their place and of late I have started to wonder whether they can be supplemented with different ways of delivering information. The problem I have with these separate web-based tools is exactly that – they are separate web-based tools. What’s the problem with that you might ask? I’ll explain! They force the information worker to go somewhere unfamiliar in order to get the information they need to do their jobs. Would it not be better if we could deliver information into the tools that those information workers are already using and not force them to go somewhere else? I look at the rise of blogging over recent years and I realise that what made them popular is that people can subscribe to RSS feeds and have information pushed to them in their tool of choice rather than them having to go and find the information for themselves in a tool that has been foisted upon them. Would it not be a good idea to adopt the principle of subscription for the benefit of delivering BI information as well? I think it would and in the rest of this blog entry I’ll outline such a scenario where the power of subscription could be used to enhance the delivery of information to information workers. Typical questions that information workers ask might be: What are my year-on-year sales figures? What was my footfall yesterday? How many widgets have I sold so far today? Each of those questions includes a time element and that shouldn’t surprise us, any BI system that I have worked on includes the dimension of time. Now, what do people use to view and organise their time-oriented information? Its not a trick question, they use a calendar and in the enterprise space more often than not that calendar is managed using Outlook. Given then that information workers are already looking at their calendar in Outlook anyway would it not make sense then to deliver information into that same calendar? Of course it would. Calendars are a great way of visualising information such as sales figures. Observe: Just in this single screenshot I have managed to convey a multitude of information. The information worker can see, at a glance, information about hourly/daily/weekly/monthly sales and, moreover, he/she is viewing that information right inside the tool that they use every day. There is no effort on the part of him/her, the information just appears hour after hour, day after day. Taking the idea further, each one of those calendar items could be a mini-dashboard in its own right. Double-clicking on an item could show a plethora of other information about that time slot such as breaking the sales down per region or year-over-year comparisons. Perhaps the title could employ a sparkline? Loads of possibilities. The point is that calendars are a completely natural way to visualise information; we should make more use of them! The real beauty of delivering information using calendars for us BI developers is that it should be so easy. In the case of Outlook we don’t need to write complicated VBA code that can go and manipulate a person’s calendar, simply publishing data in a format that Outlook can understand is sufficient and happily such formats already exist; iCalendar is the accepted format and the even more flexible xCalendar is hopefully on its way as well.   I’d like to make one last point and this one is with my SQL Server hat on. Reporting Services 2008 R2 introduced the ability to publish data as subscribable Atom feeds so it seems logical that it could also be a vehicle for delivering calendar feeds too. If you think this would be a good idea go and vote for it at Publish data as iCalendar feeds and please please please add some comments (especially if you vote it down). Work smarter, not harder! @Jamiet Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!

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• The design of a generic data synchronizer, or, an [object] that does [actions] with the aid of [helpers]

  - by acheong87

  I'd like to create a generic data-source "synchronizer," where data-source "types" may include MySQL databases, Google Spreadsheets documents, CSV files, among others. I've been trying to figure out how to structure this in terms of classes and interfaces, keeping in mind (what I've read about) composition vs. inheritance and is-a vs. has-a, but each route I go down seems to violate some principle. For simplicity, assume that all data-sources have a header-row-plus-data-rows format. For example, assume that the first rows of Google Spreadsheets documents and CSV files will have column headers, a.k.a. "fields" (to parallel database fields). Also, eventually, I would like to implement this in PHP, but avoiding language-specific discussion would probably be more productive. Here's an overview of what I've tried. Part 1/4: ISyncable class CMySQL implements ISyncable GetFields() // sql query, pdo statement, whatever AddFields() RemFields() ... _dbh class CGoogleSpreadsheets implements ISyncable GetFields() // zend gdata api AddFields() RemFields() ... _spreadsheetKey _worksheetId class CCsvFile implements ISyncable GetFields() // read from buffer AddFields() RemFields() ... _buffer interface ISyncable GetFields() AddFields($field1, $field2, ...) RemFields($field1, $field2, ...) ... CanAddFields() // maybe the spreadsheet is locked for write, or CanRemFields() // maybe no permission to alter a database table ... AddRow() ModRow() RemRow() ... Open() Close() ... First Question: Does it make sense to use an interface, as above? Part 2/4: CSyncer Next, the thing that does the syncing. class CSyncer __construct(ISyncable $A, ISyncable $B) Push() // sync A to B Pull() // sync B to A Sync() // Push() and Pull() only differ in direction; factor. // Sync()'s job is to make sure that the fields on each side // match, to add fields where appropriate and possible, to // account for different column-orderings, etc., and of // course, to add and remove rows as necessary to sync. ... _A _B Second Question: Does it make sense to define such a class, or am I treading dangerously close to the "Kingdom of Nouns"? Part 3/4: CTranslator? ITranslator? Now, here's where I actually get lost, assuming the above is passable. Sometimes, two ISyncables speak different "dialects." For example, believe it or not, Google Spreadsheets (accessed through the Google Data API "list feed") returns column headers lower-cased and stripped of all spaces and symbols! That is, sys_TIMESTAMP is systimestamp, as far as my code can tell. (Yes, I am aware that the "cell feed" does not strip the name so; however cell-by-cell manipulation is too slow for what I'm doing.) One can imagine other hypothetical examples. Perhaps even the data itself can be in different "dialects." But let's take it as given for now, and not argue this if possible. Third Question: How would you implement "translation"? Note: Taking all this as an exercise, I'm more interested in the "idealized" design, rather than the practical one. (God knows that shipped sailed when I began this project.) Part 4/4: Further Thought Here's my train of thought to demonstrate I've thunk, albeit unfruitfully: First, I thought, primitively, "I'll just modify CMySQL::GetFields() to lower-case and strip field names so they're compatible with Google Spreadsheets." But of course, then my class should really be called, CMySQLForGoogleSpreadsheets, and that can't be right. So, the thing which translates must exist outside of an ISyncable implementor. And surely it can't be right to make each translation a method in CSyncer. If it exists outside of both ISyncable and CSyncer, then what is it? (Is it even an "it"?) Is it an abstract class, i.e. abstract CTranslator? Is it an interface, since a translator only does, not has, i.e. interface ITranslator? Does it even require instantiation? e.g. If it's an ITranslator, then should its translation methods be static? (I learned what "late static binding" meant, today.) And, dear God, whatever it is, how should a CSyncer use it? Does it "have" it? Is it, "it"? Who am I? ...am I, "I"? I've attempted to break up the question into sub-questions, but essentially my question is singular: How does one implement an object A that conceptually "links" (has) two objects b1 and b2 that share a common interface B, where certain pairs of b1 and b2 require a helper, e.g. a translator, to be handled by A? Something tells me that I've overcomplicated this design, or violated a principle much higher up. Thank you all very much for your time and any advice you can provide.

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• 2012&ndash;The End Of The World Review

  - by Tim Murphy

  The end of the world must be coming.  Not because the Mayan calendar says so, but because Microsoft is innovating more than Apple.  It has been a crazy year, with pundits declaring not that the end of the world is coming, but that the end of Microsoft is coming.  Let’s take a look at what 2012 has brought us. The beginning of year is a blur.  I managed to get to TechEd in June which was the first time that I got to take a deep dive into Windows 8 and many other things that had been announced in 2011.  The promise I saw in these products was really encouraging.  The thought of being able to run Windows 8 from a thumb drive or have Hyper-V native to the OS told me that at least for developers good things were coming. I finally got my feet wet with Windows 8 with the developer preview just prior to the RTM.  While the initial experience was a bit of a culture shock I quickly grew to love it.  The media still seems to hold little love for the “reimagined” platform, but I think that once people spend some time with it they will enjoy the experience and what the FUD mongers say will fade into the background.  With the launch of the OS we finally got a look at the Surface.  I think this is a bold entry into the tablet market.  While I wish it was a little more affordable I am already starting to see them in the wild being used by non-techies. I was waiting for Windows Phone 8 at least as much as Windows 8, probably more.  The new hardware, better marketing and new OS features I think are going to finally push us to the point of having a real presence in the smartphone market.  I am seeing a number of iPhone users picking up a Nokia Lumia 920 and getting rid of their brand new iPhone 5.  The only real debacle that I saw around the launch was when they held back the SDK from general developers. Shortly after the launch events came Build 2012.  I was extremely disappointed that I didn’t make it to this year’s Build.  Even if they weren’t handing out Surface and Lumia devices I think the atmosphere and content were something that really needed to be experience in person.  Hopefully there will be a Build next year and it’s schedule will be announced soon.  As you would expect Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 development were the mainstay of the conference, but improvements in Azure also played a key role.  This movement of services to the cloud will continue and we need to understand where it best fits into the solutions we build. Lower on the radar this year were Office 2013, SQL Server 2012, and Windows Server 2012.  Their glory stolen by the consumer OS and hardware announcements, these new releases are no less important.  Companies will see significant improvements in performance and capabilities if they upgrade.  At TechEd they had shown some of the new features of Windows Server 2012 around hardware integration and Hyper-V performance which absolutely blew me away.  It is our job to bring these important improvements to our company’s attention so that they can be leveraged. Personally, the consulting business in 2012 was the busiest it has been in a long time.  More companies were ready to attack new projects after several years of putting them on the back burner.  I also worked to bring back momentum to the Chicago Information Technology Architects Group.  Both the community and clients are excited about the new technologies that have come out in 2012 and now it is time to deliver. What does 2013 have in store.  I don’t see it be quite as exciting as 2012.  Microsoft will be releasing the Surface Pro in January and it seems that we will see more frequent OS update for Windows.  There are rumors that we may see a Surface phone in 2013.  It has also been announced that there will finally be a rework of the XBox next fall.  The new year will also be a time for us in the development community to take advantage of these new tools and devices.  After all, it is what we build on top of these platforms that will attract more consumers and corporations to using them. Just as I am 99.999% sure that the world is not going to end this year, I am also sure that Microsoft will move on and that most of this negative backlash from the media is actually fear and jealousy.  In the end I think we have a promising year ahead of us. del.icio.us Tags: Microsoft,Pundits,Mayans,Windows 8,Windows Phone 8,Surface

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• BizTalk: namespaces

  - by Leonid Ganeline

  BizTalk team did a good job hiding the .NET guts from developers. Developers are working with editors and hardly with .NET code. The Orchestration editor, the Mapper, the Schema editor, the Pipeline editor, all these editors hide what is going on with artifacts created and deployed. Working with the BizTalk artifacts year after year brings us some knowledge which could help to understand more about the .NET guts. I would like to highlight the .NET namespaces. What they are, how they influence our everyday tasks in the BizTalk application development. What is it? Most of the BizTalk artifacts are compiled into the NET classes. Not all of them… but I will show you later. Classes are placed inside the namespaces. I will not describe here why we need namespaces and what is it. I assume you all know about it more then me. Here I would like to emphasize that almost each BizTalk artifact is implemented as a .NET class within a .NET namespace. Where to see the namespaces in development? The namespaces are inconsistently spread across the artifact parameters. Let’s start with namespace placement in development. Then we go with namespaces in deployment and operations. I am using pictures from the BizTalk Server 2013 Beta and the Visual Studio 2012 but there was no changes regarding the namespaces starting from the BizTalk 2006. Default namespace When a new BizTalk project is created, the default namespace is set up the same as a name of a project. This namespace would be used for all new BizTalk artifacts added to this project. Orchestrations When we select a green or a red markers (the Begin and End orchestration shapes) we will see the orchestration Properties window. We also can click anywhere on the space between Port Surfaces to see this window.   Schemas The only way to see the NET namespace for map is selecting the schema file name into the Solution Explorer. Notes: We can also see the Type Name parameter. It is a name of the correspondent .NET class. We can also see the Fully Qualified Name parameter. We cannot see the schema namespace when selecting any node on the schema editor surface. Only selecting a schema file name gives us a namespace parameter. If we select a <Schema> node we can get the Target Namespace parameter of the schema. This is NOT the .NET namespace! It is an XML namespace. See this XML namespace inside the XML schema, it is shown as a special targetNamespace attribute Here this XML namespace appears inside the XML document itself. It is shown as a special xmlns attribute.   Maps It is similar to the schemas. The only way to see the NET namespace for map is selecting a map file name into the Solution Explorer. Pipelines It is similar to the schemas. The only way to see the NET namespace for pipeline is selecting a pipeline file name into the Solution Explorer. z Ports, Policies and Tracking Profiles The Send and Receive Ports, the Policies and the BAM Tracking Profiles do not create the .NET classes and they do not have the associated .NET namespaces. How to copy artifacts? Since the new versions of the BizTalk Server are going to production I am spending more and more time redesigning and refactoring the BizTalk applications. It is good to know how the refactoring process copes with the .NET namespaces. Let see what is going on with the namespaces when we copy the artifacts from one project to another. Here is an example: I am going to group the artifacts under the project folders. So, I have created a Group folder, have run the Add / Existing Item.. command and have chosen all artifacts in the project root. The artifact copies were created in the Group folder: What was happened with the namespaces of the artifacts? As you can see, the folder name, the “Group”, was added to the namespace. It is great! When I added a folder, I have added one more level in the name hierarchy and the namespace change just reflexes this hierarchy change.  The same namespace adjustment happens when we copy the BizTalk artifacts between the projects. But there is an issue with the namespace of an orchestration. It was not changed. The namespaces of the schemas, maps, pipelines are changed but not the orchestration namespace. I have to change the orchestration namespace manually. Now another example: I am creating a new Project folder and moving the artifacts there from the project root by drag and drop. We will mention the artifact namespaces are not changed. Another example: I am copying the artifacts from the project root by (drag and drop) + Ctrl. We will mention the artifact namespaces are changed. It works exactly as it was with the Add / Existing Item.. command. Conclusion: The namespace parameter is put inconsistently in different places for different artifacts Moving artifacts changes the namespaces of the schemas, maps, pipelines but not the orchestrations.

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• What are the industry metrics for average spend on dev hardware and software? [on hold]

  - by RationalGeek

  I'm trying to budget for my dev shop and compare our budget items to industry expectations. I'm hoping to find some information on what percentage of a dev's salary is generally spent on tooling, both hardware and software. Where can I find such information? If instead there is a source that looks at raw dollars that is useful, too. I can extrapolate what I need from that. NOTE: Your anecdotal evidence from your own job will not be very helpful. I'm looking for industry average statistics from a credible source. EDIT: I'm reluctant to even keep this question going based on the passionate negative responses of commenters, but I do think this is valuable information (assuming anyone will care to answer) so let me make one attempt to clarify why I'm looking for this information, and then leave it at that. I'm not sure why understanding and validating my motives is a necessary step to providing the information, but apparently that is the case, so I will do my best. Firstly, let me respond to the idea that us "management types" shouldn't use these types of metrics to evaluate budgets. I agree in part. Ideally, you should spend whatever is necessary on developers in order to keep them fully happy and productive. And this is true of all employees. However, companies operate in a world of limited resources, and every dollar spent in one area means a dollar not spent in another. So it is not enough to simply say "I need to spend $10,000 per developer next year" without having some way to justify that position. One way to help justify it is to compare yourself against the industry. If it is the case that on average a software shops spends 5% (making up that number) of their total development budget (salaries being the large portion of the other 95%, for arguments sake), and I'm only spending 3%, it helps in the justification process. So, it is not my intent to use this information to limit what I spend on developers, but rather to arm myself with the necessary justification to spend what I need to spend on developers to give them the best tools I can. I have been a developer for many years and I understand the need for proper tooling. Next, let's examine the idea that even considering the relationship between a spend on developer salaries and developer tooling is ludicrous and should be banned from budgetary thinking. As Jimmy Hoffa put it in their comment, it's like saying "I'm going to spend no more than 10% of median employee salary on light bulbs and coffee from now on.". Well, yes, it is like saying that, and from a budgeting perspective, this is a useful way to look at things. If you know that, on average, an employee consumes X dollars of coffee a year, then you can project a coffee budget based on that. And you can compare it to an industry metric to understand where you fall: do you spend more on coffee than other companies or less? Why might this be? If you are a coffee supply manager, that seems like a useful thought process. The same seems to hold true for developers. Now, on to the idea that I need to compare "apples to apples" and only look at other shops that are in the same place geographically, the same business, the same application architecture, and the same development frameworks. I guess if I could find such a statistic that said "a shop that is exactly identical to yours spends X on developer tooling" it would be wonderful. But there is plenty of value in an average statistic. Here's an analogy: let's say you are working on a household budget and need to decide how much to spend on groceries. Is it enough to know that the average consumer spends 15% on groceries and therefore decide that you will budget exactly 15%? No. You have to tweak your budget based on your individual needs and situation. But the generalized statistic does help in this evaluation. You can know if your budget is grossly off from what others are doing, and this can help you figure out why this is. So, I will concede the point that it would be better to find statistics that align to my shop, though I think any statistics I could find would be useful for what I'm doing. In that light, let's say that my shop is mostly focused on ASP.NET web applications. That doesn't map perfectly to reality because large enterprises have very heterogenous IT environments. But if I was going to pick one technology that is our focus that would be it. But, if you were to point me at some statistics that are related to a Linux shop doing embedded Java applications, I would still find it useful as a point of comparison. SUMMARY: Let me try to rephrase my question. I'm trying to find industry metrics on how much dev shops spend on developer tooling, both hardware and software. I don't so much care whether it is expressed as a percentage of total budget or as X dollars per dev or as Y percentage of salary. Any metric would be useful. If there are metrics that are specific to ASP.NET dev shops in the Northeast US, all the better, but I would be happy to find anything.

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• Windows Phone 8 Launch Event Summary

  - by Tim Murphy

  Today was the official coming out party for Windows Phone 8.  Below is a summary of the launch event.  There is a lot here to stay with me. They started with a commercial staring Joe Belfiore show how his Windows Phone 8 was personal too him which highlights something I think Microsoft has done well over the last couple of event: spotlight how Windows Phone is a different experience from other smartphones.  Joe actually called iPhone and Android “tired old metaphors" and explained that the idea around Windows Phone was to “reinvent the smartphone around you” as “the most personal smartphone operating system”.  The is the message that they need to drive home in their adds. The only real technical aspect we found out was that they have optimized the operating system around the dual core Qualcomm Snapdragon chip set.  It seems like all of the other hardware goodies had already been announced.  The remainder of the event was centered around new features of the OS and app announcements. So what are we getting?  The integrated features included lock screen live tile, Data Sense, Rooms and Kids corner.  There wasn’t a lot of information about it, but Joe also talked about apps not just having live tiles, but being live apps that could integrate with wallet and the hub. The lock screen will now be able to be personalized with live tile data or even a photo slide show.  This gives the lock screen an even better ability to give you the information you want to know before you even unlock the phone. The Kids Corner allows you as a parent to setup an area on your phone that you kids can go into an use it without disturbing your apps.  They can play games or use apps that you have designated and will only see those apps.  It even has a special lock screen gesture just for the kids corner. Rooms allow you to organize your phone around the groups of people in your life.  You get a shared calendar, a room wall as well as shared notes beyond just being able to send messages to a group.  You can also invite people not on the Windows Phone platform to access an online version of the room. Data Sense is a new feature that gives you better control and understanding of your data plan usage.  You can see which applications are using data and it can automatically adjust they way your phone behaves as you get close to your data limit. Add to these features the fact that the entire Windows ecosystem is integrated with SkyDrive and you have an available anywhere experience that is unequaled by any other platform.  Your document, photos and music are available on your Windows Phone, Window 8 device and Xbox.  SkyDrive also doesn’t limit how long you can keep files like the competing cloud platforms and give more free storage. It was interesting the way they made the launch event more personal.  First Joe brought out his own kids to demo the Kids Corner.  They followed this up by bringing out Jessica Alba to discuss her experience on the Windows Phone 8.  They need to keep putting a face on the product instead of just showing features as a cold list. Then we get to apps.  We knew that the new Skype was coming, but we found out that it was created in such a way that it can receive calls without running consistently in the background which would eat up battery.  This announcement was follow by the coming Facebook app that is optimized for Windows Phone 8.  As a matter of fact they indicated that just after launch the marketplace would have 46 out of the top 50 apps used by all smartphone platforms.  In a rational world this tide with over 120,000 apps currently in the marketplace there should be no more argument about the Windows Phone ecosystem. For those of us who develop for Windows Phone and weren’t on the early adoption program will finally get access to the SDK tomorrow after an announcement at Build (more waiting).  Perhaps we will get a few new features then. In the end I wouldn’t say there were any huge surprises, but I am really excited about getting my hands on the devices next month and starting to develop.  Stay tuned. del.icio.us Tags: Windows Phone,Windows Phone 8,Winodws Phone 8 Launch,Joe Belfiore,Jessica Alba

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• To Make Diversity Work, Managers Must Stop Ignoring Difference

  - by HCM-Oracle

  By Kate Pavao - Originally posted on Profit Executive coaches Jane Hyun and Audrey S. Lee noticed something during their leadership development coaching and consulting: Frustrated employees and overwhelmed managers. “We heard from voices saying, ‘I wish my manager understood me better’ or ‘I hope my manager would take the time to learn more about me and my background,’” remembers Hyun. “At the same token, the managers we were coaching had a hard time even knowing how to start these conversations.”  Hyun and Lee wrote Flex to address some of the fears managers have when it comes to leading diverse teams—such as being afraid of offending their employees by stumbling into sensitive territory—and also to provide a sure-footed strategy for becoming a more effective leader. Here, Hyun talks about what it takes to create innovate and productive teams in an increasingly diverse world, including the key characteristics successful managers share. Q: What does it mean to “flex”? Hyun: Flexing is the art of switching between leadership styles to work more effectively with people who are different from you. It’s not fundamentally changing who you are, but it’s understanding when you need to adapt your style in a situation so that you can accommodate people and make them feel more comfortable. It’s understanding the gap that might exist between you and others who are different, and then flexing across that gap to get the result that you're looking for. It’s up to all of us, not just managers, but also employees, to learn how to flex. When you hire new people to the organization, they're expected to adapt. The new people in the organization may need some guidance around how to best flex. They can certainly take the initiative, but if you can give them some direction around the important rules, and connect them with insiders who can help them figure out the most critical elements of the job, that will accelerate how quickly they can contribute to your organization. Q: Why is it important right now for managers to understand flexing? Hyun: The workplace is becoming increasingly younger, multicultural and female. The numbers bear it out. Millennials are entering the workforce and becoming a larger percentage of it, which is a global phenomenon. Thirty-six percent of the workforce is multicultural, and close to half is female. It makes sense to better understand the people who are increasingly a part of your workforce, and how to best lead them and manage them as well. Q: What do companies miss out on when managers don’t flex? Hyun: There are high costs for losing people or failing to engage them. The estimated costs of replacing an employee is about 150 percent of that person’s salary. There are studies showing that employee disengagement costs the U.S. something like $450 billion a year. But voice is the biggest thing you miss out on if you don’t flex. Whenever you want innovation or increased productivity from your people, you need to figure out how to unleash these things. The way you get there is to make sure that everybody’s voice is at the table. Q: What are some of the common misassumptions that managers make about the people on their teams? Hyun: One is what I call the Golden Rule mentality: We assume when we go to the workplace that people are going to think like us and operate like us. But sometimes when you work with people from a different culture or a different generation, they may have a different mindset about doing something, or a different approach to solving a problem, or a different way to manage some situation. When see something that’s different, we don't understand it, so we don't trust it. We have this hidden bias for people who are like us. That gets in the way of really looking at how we can tap our team members best potential by understanding how their difference may help them be effective in our workplace. We’re trained, especially in the workplace, to make assumptions quickly, so that you can make the best business decision. But with people, it’s better to remain curious. If you want to build stronger cross-cultural, cross-generational, cross-gender relationships, before you make a judgment, share what you observe with that team member, and connect with him or her in ways that are mutually adaptive, so that you can work together more effectively. Q: What are the common characteristics you see in leaders who are successful at flexing? Hyun: One is what I call “adaptive ability”—leaders who are able to understand that someone on their team is different from them, and willing to adapt his or her style to do that. Another one is “unconditional positive regard,” which is basically acceptance of others, even in their vulnerable moments. This attitude of grace is critical and essential to a healthy environment in developing people. If you think about when people enter the workforce, they're only 21 years old. It’s quite a formative time for them. They may not have a lot of management experience, or experience managing complex or even global projects. Creating the best possible condition for their development requires turning their mistakes into teachable moments, and giving them an opportunity to really learn. Finally, these leaders are not rigid or constrained in a single mode or style. They have this insatiable curiosity about other people. They don’t judge when they see behavior that doesn’t make sense, or is different from their own. For example, maybe someone on their team is a less aggressive than they are. The leader needs to remain curious and thinks, “Wow, I wonder how I can engage in a dialogue with this person to get their potential out in the open.”

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• How to move a rectangle properly?

  - by bodycountPP

  I recently started to learn OpenGL. Right now I finished the first chapter of the "OpenGL SuperBible". There were two examples. The first had the complete code and showed how to draw a simple triangle. The second example is supposed to show how to move a rectangle using SpecialKeys. The only code provided for this example was the SpecialKeys method. I still tried to implement it but I had two problems. In the previous example I declared and instaciated vVerts in the SetupRC() method. Now as it is also used in the SpecialKeys() method, I moved the declaration and instantiation to the top of the code. Is this proper c++ practice? I copied the part where vertex positions are recalculated from the book, but I had to pick the vertices for the rectangle on my own. So now every time I press a key for the first time the rectangle's upper left vertex is moved to (-0,5:-0.5). This ok because of GLfloat blockX = vVerts[0]; //Upper left X GLfloat blockY = vVerts[7]; // Upper left Y But I also think that this is the reason why my rectangle is shifted in the beginning. After the first time a key was pressed everything works just fine. Here is my complete code I hope you can help me on those two points. GLBatch squareBatch; GLShaderManager shaderManager; //Load up a triangle GLfloat vVerts[] = {-0.5f,0.5f,0.0f, 0.5f,0.5f,0.0f, 0.5f,-0.5f,0.0f, -0.5f,-0.5f,0.0f}; //Window has changed size, or has just been created. //We need to use the window dimensions to set the viewport and the projection matrix. void ChangeSize(int w, int h) { glViewport(0,0,w,h); } //Called to draw the scene. void RenderScene(void) { //Clear the window with the current clearing color glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT|GL_DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT|GL_STENCIL_BUFFER_BIT); GLfloat vRed[] = {1.0f,0.0f,0.0f,1.0f}; shaderManager.UseStockShader(GLT_SHADER_IDENTITY,vRed); squareBatch.Draw(); //perform the buffer swap to display the back buffer glutSwapBuffers(); } //This function does any needed initialization on the rendering context. //This is the first opportunity to do any OpenGL related Tasks. void SetupRC() { //Blue Background glClearColor(0.0f,0.0f,1.0f,1.0f); shaderManager.InitializeStockShaders(); squareBatch.Begin(GL_QUADS,4); squareBatch.CopyVertexData3f(vVerts); squareBatch.End(); } //Respond to arrow keys by moving the camera frame of reference void SpecialKeys(int key,int x,int y) { GLfloat stepSize = 0.025f; GLfloat blockSize = 0.5f; GLfloat blockX = vVerts[0]; //Upper left X GLfloat blockY = vVerts[7]; // Upper left Y if(key == GLUT_KEY_UP) { blockY += stepSize; } if(key == GLUT_KEY_DOWN){blockY -= stepSize;} if(key == GLUT_KEY_LEFT){blockX -= stepSize;} if(key == GLUT_KEY_RIGHT){blockX += stepSize;} //Recalculate vertex positions vVerts[0] = blockX; vVerts[1] = blockY - blockSize*2; vVerts[3] = blockX + blockSize * 2; vVerts[4] = blockY - blockSize *2; vVerts[6] = blockX+blockSize*2; vVerts[7] = blockY; vVerts[9] = blockX; vVerts[10] = blockY; squareBatch.CopyVertexData3f(vVerts); glutPostRedisplay(); } //Main entry point for GLUT based programs int main(int argc, char** argv) { //Sets the working directory. Not really needed gltSetWorkingDirectory(argv[0]); //Passes along the command-line parameters and initializes the GLUT library. glutInit(&argc,argv); //Tells the GLUT library what type of display mode to use, when creating the window. //Double buffered window, RGBA-Color mode,depth-buffer as part of our display, stencil buffer also available glutInitDisplayMode(GLUT_DOUBLE|GLUT_RGBA|GLUT_DEPTH|GLUT_STENCIL); //Window size glutInitWindowSize(800,600); glutCreateWindow("MoveRect"); glutReshapeFunc(ChangeSize); glutDisplayFunc(RenderScene); glutSpecialFunc(SpecialKeys); //initialize GLEW library GLenum err = glewInit(); //Check that nothing goes wrong with the driver initialization before we try and do any rendering. if(GLEW_OK != err) { fprintf(stderr,"Glew Error: %s\n",glewGetErrorString); return 1; } SetupRC(); glutMainLoop(); return 0; }

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• Copies of GameScene created when called additional times

  - by Orin MacGregor

  I have a game with a level select managed by a SceneManager, which basically just uses ReplaceScene. The first time I load a level everything works fine. On subsequent calls, for example: completing the level and continuing to the next, things blow up. The level loads fine, but when I try to pan the map or try to move the player the game crashes. Debugging through I found that there are multiple occurrences of self and related children like player and mapLayer. As a test, I put this code in my ccTouchesBegan: NSLog(@"test %i", [self retainCount]); The first time a level is loaded, it gives: test 2 The second time I load a level it gives: test 2 test 1 as in it spits out both values by looping through twice, not just appending an output to the last. It continues with this pattern for each subsequent load. So the third time will give 2 1 1. Particular code that causes the game to crash involve calling _tileMap.tileSize because there is a second GameScene with a tileMap that was supposedly destroyed, so it has tileSize and mapSize of 0. I noticed dealloc doesn't really ever get called, so I tried to manage some things with -(void) onExit -(void) onExit { [self unscheduleAllSelectors]; [_player stopAllActions]; //stop any animations just in case. normally handled in ccTouchesEnded [self removeAllChildrenWithCleanup:YES]; } I never replace the GameScene while I'm in a GameScene; if the level is completed it goes to a GameOver scene, or I use a back button that goes to the LevelSelect scene. This is [the relevant parts of] my init, in case something like the adding of children matters: -(id) init { _mapLayer = [CCLayer node]; //load data for level GameData *gameData = [GameDataParser loadData]; int selectedChapter = gameData.selectedChapter; int selectedLevel = gameData.selectedLevel; Levels *chapterLevels = [LevelParser loadLevelsForChapter:selectedChapter]; //loop until we get selected level, then do stuff for (Level *level in chapterLevels.levels) { if (level.number == selectedLevel) { //load the level map _tileMap = [CCTMXTiledMap tiledMapWithTMXFile:level.file]; } } _background = [_tileMap layerNamed:@"Background"]; _foreground = [_tileMap layerNamed:@"Foreground"]; _meta = [_tileMap layerNamed:@"Meta"]; _meta.visible = NO; //initialize Spawn Point object and place player there CCTMXObjectGroup *objects = [_tileMap objectGroupNamed:@"Objects"]; NSAssert(objects != nil, @"'Objects' object group not found"); NSMutableDictionary *spawnPoint = [objects objectNamed:@"SpawnPoint"]; NSAssert(spawnPoint != nil, @"SpawnPoint object not found"); int x = [[spawnPoint valueForKey:@"x"] intValue] / retinaScaling; int y = [[spawnPoint valueForKey:@"y"] intValue] / retinaScaling; //setup animations [[CCSpriteFrameCache sharedSpriteFrameCache] addSpriteFramesWithFile:@"MouseRightAnim_24x21.plist"]; CCSpriteBatchNode *spriteSheet = [CCSpriteBatchNode batchNodeWithFile:@"MouseRightAnim_24x21.png"]; [_mapLayer addChild:spriteSheet z:1]; NSMutableArray *rightAnimFrames = [NSMutableArray array]; for(int i = 1; i <= 3; ++i) { [rightAnimFrames addObject: [[CCSpriteFrameCache sharedSpriteFrameCache] spriteFrameByName: [NSString stringWithFormat:@"MouseRight%d_24x21.png", i]]]; } CCAnimation *rightAnim = [CCAnimation animationWithSpriteFrames:rightAnimFrames delay:0.1f]; self.player = [CCSprite spriteWithSpriteFrameName:@"MouseRight2_24x21.png"]; _player.position = ccp(x, y); self.rightAction = [CCRepeatForever actionWithAction:[CCAnimate actionWithAnimation:rightAnim]]; rightAnim.restoreOriginalFrame = NO; [spriteSheet addChild:_player]; //get map size in pixels mapHeight = _tileMap.contentSize.height; mapWidth = _tileMap.contentSize.width; //setup defaults //this value works well for the calculation later, trial and error really distance = 150; lastGoodDistance = 150; mapScale = 1; [self setViewpointCenter:_player.position]; [_mapLayer addChild:_tileMap]; [self addChild:_mapLayer z:-1]; self.isTouchEnabled = YES; } return self; } And here's the SceneManager code for replacing scenes: +(void) goGameScene { CCLayer *gameLayer = [GameScene node]; [SceneManager go:gameLayer:[GameHUD node]]; } //this is what every call looks like besides the GameScene one above +(void) goLevelSelect { [SceneManager go:[LevelSelect node]:nil]; } +(void) go:(CCLayer *)layer: (CCLayer *)hudLayer { CCDirector *director = [CCDirector sharedDirector]; CCScene *newScene = [SceneManager wrap:layer:hudLayer]; if ([director runningScene]) { [director replaceScene:newScene]; } else { [director runWithScene:newScene]; } } +(CCScene *) wrap:(CCLayer *)layer: (CCLayer *)hudLayer { CCScene *newScene = [CCScene node]; [newScene addChild: layer]; if (hudLayer != nil) { [newScene addChild: hudLayer z:1]; } return newScene; } Any ideas why I'm getting these fatal artifacts? I'm hoping this isn't considered too localized since it basically combines 3 tutorials that anyone could end up following. (Ray Wenderlich Animations, Tim Roadley Scene Manager, Pan and Zoom with Tiled Maps.

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• Are there Negative Impact of opensource on commercial environment?

  - by Lostsoul

  I know this is not a good fit for Stack Overflow but wasn't sure if it was good for this site also so let me know if its not and I'll delete it. I love programming for fun but my role in my company is not technical. I have always loved the hacker culture and have been trying to drive that openness within my company from day one. My company has a very broad range of products and there are a few that are not strategic to us so I wanted to open source them (so we can focus on what makes us unique and open source the products that every firm has). Our industry does not open source(we would be the first firm to try this) and the feedback I'm getting from my management team is either 1) we'll destroy the industry or 2) all competitive commercial firms will unite against us and we'll be wiped out either way. I disagreed on both points because I think transparency will only grow our industry and our firm (think of McDonalds/KFC sharing their recipe openly, people may copy you, competitors may target you, but customers also may feel more comfortable buying your product. The value add, I believe, is in the delivery and experience not in hoarding the recipe). It's a big battle in my firm right now between the IT people who have seen the positive effects of sharing and the business people who think we'll be giving up everything (they prefer we sell parts we want to opensource, but in their defense this is standard when divesting something). Our industry is very secretive and I don't want to put anyone(even my competitors employees) out of a job yet I don't want to protect inefficient people by not being open with everyone. Yet I've seen so many amazing technologies created in interesting ways just by giving people freedom to take apart code and put it back together. I'm interested in hearing people's thoughts(doesn't have to be to my specific situation, I'm looking for the general lessons). Its a very stressful decision(but one I feel I must make) because if we go the open source route then there will be no going back. So what are your thoughts? Does open sourcing apply generally or is it only really applicable to software? Is it overall good for people in the industry and outside? I'm actually more interested in the negativeness effects(although positive are welcomed as well) Update: Long story short, although code is involved this is not so much about code as it is more about the idea of open sourcing. We are a mid sized quant hedge fund. We have some unique strategies but also have the standard long/short, arbitrage, global macro, etc.. funds. We are keeping the unique funds we have but the other stuff that everyone else has we are considering open sourcing (We have put in years of work & millions of dollars into. Our funds is pretty popular and our performance is either in first or second quartile so I suspect there will be interest but I don't know to what extent). The goal is not to get a community to work for us or anything, the goal is to let anyone who wants to tinker with it do so and create anything they want (it will not be part of our product line although I may unofficially allocate some our of staff's time to assist any community that grows). Although the code base is quite large, the value in this is the industry knowledge and approaches we have acquired (there are many books on artificial intelligence and quant trading but they are often years behind what's really going on as most firms forbid their staff from discussing what they are doing). We are also considering after we move our clients out to let the software still run and output the resulting portfolios for free as well so people can at least see the results(as long as we have avail. infrastructure). I think our main choices are, we can continue to fight for market share in a products that are becoming commoditized, we can shut the funds/products down(and keep the code but no one outside of our firm will ever learn from it) or we can open source it and let people do what they want. By open sourcing it, my idea is that the talent pool in the industry will grow because right now most of our hires have the same background (CFA, MBA, similar school, same experience,etc.. because we can't spend time training people so the industry 'standardizes' most people and thus the firms themselves start to look/act similar) but this may allow us to identify talent that has never been in the industry before (if we put a GPU license then as people learn from what we did, we can learn from what they do as well and maybe apply it to other areas of our firm). I see a lot of benefits but not many negatives while my peers at the company see the opposite.

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• IE9, LightSwitch Beta 2 and Zune HD: A Study in Risk Management?

  - by andrewbrust

  Photo by parl, 'Risk.’ Under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License This has been a busy week for Microsoft, and for me as well.  On Monday, Microsoft launched Internet Explorer 9 at South by Southwest (SXSW) in Austin, TX.  That evening I flew from New York to Seattle.  On Tuesday morning, Microsoft launched Visual Studio LightSwitch, Beta 2 with a Go-Live license, in Redmond, and I had the privilege of speaking at the keynote presentation where the announcement was made.  Readers of this blog know I‘m a fan of LightSwitch, so I was happy to tell the app dev tools partners in the audience that I thought the LightSwitch extensions ecosystem represented a big opportunity – comparable to the opportunity when Visual Basic 1.0 was entering its final beta roughly 20 years ago.  On Tuesday evening, I flew back to New York (and wrote most of this post in-flight). Two busy, productive days.  But there was a caveat that impacts the accomplishments, because Monday was also the day reports surfaced from credible news agencies that Microsoft was discontinuing its dedicated Zune hardware efforts.  While the Zune brand, technology and service will continue to be a component of Windows Phone and a piece of the Xbox puzzle as well, speculation is that Microsoft will no longer be going toe-to-toe with iPod touch in the portable music player market. If we take all three of these developments together (even if one of them is based on speculation), two interesting conclusions can reasonably be drawn, one good and one less so. Microsoft is doubling down on technologies it finds strategic and de-emphasizing those that it does not.  HTML 5 and the Web are strategic, so here comes IE9, and it’s a very good browser.  Try it and see.  Silverlight is strategic too, as is SQL Server, Windows Azure and SQL Azure, so here comes Visual Studio LightSwitch Beta 2 and a license to deploy its apps to production.  Downloads of that product have exceeded Microsoft’s projections by more than 50%, and the company is even citing analyst firms’ figures covering the number of power-user developers that might use it. (I happen to think the product will be used by full-fledged developers as well, but that’s a separate discussion.) Windows Phone is strategic too…I wasn’t 100% positive of that before, but the Nokia agreement has made me confident.  Xbox as an entertainment appliance is also strategic.  Standalone music players are not strategic – and even if they were, selling them has been a losing battle for Microsoft.  So if Microsoft has consolidated the Zune content story and the ZunePass subscription into Xbox and Windows Phone, it would make sense, and would be a smart allocation of resources.  Essentially, it would be for the greater good. But it’s not all good.  In this scenario, Zune player customers would lose out.  Unless they wanted to switch to Windows Phone, and then use their phone’s battery for the portable media needs, they’re going to need a new platform.  They’re going to feel abandoned.  Even if Zune lives, there have been other such cul de sacs for customers.  Remember SPOT watches?  Live Spaces?  The original Live Mesh?  Microsoft discontinued each of these products.  The company is to be commended for cutting its losses, as admitting a loss isn’t easy.  But Redmond won’t be well-regarded by the victims of those decisions.  Instead, it gets black marks. What’s the answer?  I think it’s a bit like the 1980’s New York City “don’t block the box” gridlock rules: don’t enter an intersection unless you see a clear path through it.  If the light turns red and you’re blocking the perpendicular traffic, that’s your fault in judgment.  You get fined and get points on your license and you don’t get to shrug it off as beyond your control.  Accountability is key.  The same goes for Microsoft.  If it decides to enter a market, it should see a reasonable path through success in that market. Switching analogies, Microsoft shouldn’t make investments haphazardly, and it certainly shouldn’t ask investors to buy into a high-risk fund that is sold as safe and which offers only moderate returns.  People won’t continue to invest with a fund manager with a track record of over-zealous, imprudent, sub-prime investments.  The same is true on the product side for Microsoft, and not just with music players and geeky wrist watches.  It’s true of Web browsers, and line-of-business app dev tools, and smartphones, and cloud platforms and operating systems too.  When Microsoft is casual about its own risk, it raises risk for its customers, and weakens its reputation, market share and credibility.  That doesn’t mean all risk is bad, but it does mean no product team’s risk should be taken lightly. For mutual fund companies, it’s the CEO’s job to give his fund managers autonomy, but to make sure they’re conforming to a standard of rational risk management.  Because all those funds carry the same brand, and many of them serve the same investors. The same goes for Microsoft, its product portfolio, its executive ranks and its product managers.

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• Styles for XAML (Silverlight &amp; WPF)

  - by GeekAgilistMercenary

  This is a quick walk through of how to setup things for skinning within a XAML Application.  First thing, find the App.xaml file within the WPF or Silverlight Project. Within the App.xaml file set some default styles for your controls.  I set the following for a button, label, and border control for an application I am creating. Button Control <Style x:Key="ButtonStyle" TargetType="Button"> <Setter Property="FontFamily" Value="Arial" /> <Setter Property="FontWeight" Value="Bold" /> <Setter Property="FontSize" Value="14" /> <Setter Property="Width" Value="180" /> <Setter Property="Height" Value="Auto" /> <Setter Property="Margin" Value="8" /> <Setter Property="Padding" Value="8" /> <Setter Property="Foreground" Value="AliceBlue" /> <Setter Property="Background" > <Setter.Value> <LinearGradientBrush EndPoint="0.5,1" StartPoint="0.5,0"> <GradientStop Color="Black" Offset="0" /> <GradientStop Color="#FF5B5757" Offset="1" /> </LinearGradientBrush> </Setter.Value> </Setter> </Style> Label Control <Style x:Key="LabelStyle" TargetType="Label"> <Setter Property="Width" Value="Auto"/> <Setter Property="Height" Value="28" /> <Setter Property="Foreground" Value="Black"/> <Setter Property="Margin" Value="8"/> </Style> Border Control <Style x:Key="BorderStyle" TargetType="Border"> <Setter Property="BorderThickness" Value="4"/> <Setter Property="Width" Value="Auto"/> <Setter Property="Height" Value="Auto" /> <Setter Property="Margin" Value="0,8,0,0"/> <Setter Property="CornerRadius" Value="18"/> <Setter Property="BorderBrush"> <Setter.Value> <LinearGradientBrush EndPoint="1,0.5" StartPoint="0,0.5"> <GradientStop Color="CornflowerBlue" Offset="0" /> <GradientStop Color="White" Offset="1" /> </LinearGradientBrush> </Setter.Value> </Setter> </Style> These provide good examples of setting individual properties to a default, such as; <Setter Property="Width" Value="Auto"/> <Setter Property="Height" Value="Auto" /> Also for settings a more complex property, such as with a LinearGradientBrush; <Setter Property="BorderBrush"> <Setter.Value> <LinearGradientBrush EndPoint="1,0.5" StartPoint="0,0.5"> <GradientStop Color="CornflowerBlue" Offset="0" /> <GradientStop Color="White" Offset="1" /> </LinearGradientBrush> </Setter.Value> </Setter> These property setters should be located between the opening and closing <Application.Resources></Application.Resources> tags. <Application x:Class="ScorecardAndDashboard.App" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml" StartupUri="MainWindow.xaml"> <Application.Resources> </Application.Resources> </Application> Now in the pages, user controls, or whatever you are marking up with XAML, for the Style Property just set a StaticResource such as shown below. <!-- Border Control --> <Border Name="borderPollingFrequency" Style="{StaticResource BorderStyle}"> <!-- Label Control --> <Label Content="Trigger Name:" Style="{StaticResource LabelStyle}"></Label> <!-- Button Control --> <Button Content="Save Schedule" Name="buttonSaveSchedule" Style="{StaticResource ButtonStyle}" HorizontalAlignment="Right"/> That's it.  Simple as that.  There are other ways to setup resource files that are separate from the App.xaml, but the App.xaml file is always a good quick place to start.  As moving the styles to a specific resource file later is a mere copy and paste. Original post is available along with other technical ramblings.

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• change height in Android 2.2 LinearLayout in code

  - by Niro

  Im trying to change height of Layouts through the code without success. I've tried all of the examples i saw here and other site and my app just keep shutting down. xml code: <LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools" android:id="@+id/main_lay" android:orientation="vertical" tools:context=".MainActivity" > <LinearLayout android:id="@+id/layout_add" > </LinearLayout> <LinearLayout android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="50dp" android:background="@color/green"> <ImageView android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:contentDescription="@string/desc" android:layout_height="45dp" android:layout_gravity="center_vertical|left" android:scaleType="fitStart" android:background="@color/orange" android:src="@drawable/logo" > </ImageView> </LinearLayout> </LinearLayout> Java code: main_layout=(LinearLayout)findViewById(R.id.main_lay); main_layout.setLayoutParams(new FrameLayout.LayoutParams(LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT,LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT)); main_layout.setBackgroundResource(R.color.white); layout_add = (LinearLayout) findViewById(R.id.layout_add); layout_add.setLayoutParams(new FrameLayout.LayoutParams(LayoutParams.FILL_PARENT,50 )); layout_add.setBackgroundResource(R.color.dark_grey); I cant understand what im doing wrong. I've tried different ways to fix it. The Backround setting is working fine. Thank you guys Niro This is the Logcat 12-09 16:12:39.007: E/AnalyticsSDKTest.cpp(6338): Time w/ UTC Offset: 2012-12-09 12-09 16:16:14.517: E/ActivityManager(121): fail to set top app changed! 12-09 16:16:14.547: E/InputDispatcher(121): channel '4056b9c8 com.nirosadvice.converter/com.nirosadvice.converter.MainActivity (server)' ~ Consumer closed input channel or an error occurred. events=0x8 12-09 16:16:14.547: E/InputDispatcher(121): channel '4056b9c8 com.nirosadvice.converter/com.nirosadvice.converter.MainActivity (server)' ~ Channel is unrecoverably broken and will be disposed! 12-09 16:16:18.071: E/PVWmdrmProxy(5716): binder died for component: ComponentInfo{com.pv.wmdrmservice/com.pv.wmdrmservice.PVWmdrmService} 12-09 16:16:18.161: E/AndroidRuntime(18911): FATAL EXCEPTION: main 12-09 16:16:18.161: E/AndroidRuntime(18911): java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{com.nirosadvice.converter/com.nirosadvice.converter.MainActivity}: java.lang.RuntimeException: Binary XML file line #1: You must supply a layout_width attribute. 12-09 16:16:18.161: E/AndroidRuntime(18911): at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1821) 12-09 16:16:18.161: E/AndroidRuntime(18911): at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1842) 12-09 16:16:18.161: E/AndroidRuntime(18911): at android.app.ActivityThread.access$1500(ActivityThread.java:132) 12-09 16:16:18.161: E/AndroidRuntime(18911): at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1038) 12-09 16:16:18.161: E/AndroidRuntime(18911): at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99) 12-09 16:16:18.161: E/AndroidRuntime(18911): at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:150) 12-09 16:16:18.161: E/AndroidRuntime(18911): at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4263) 12-09 16:16:18.161: E/AndroidRuntime(18911): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method) 12-09 16:16:18.161: E/AndroidRuntime(18911): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:507) 12-09 16:16:18.161: E/AndroidRuntime(18911): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:839) 12-09 16:16:18.161: E/AndroidRuntime(18911): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:597) 12-09 16:16:18.161: E/AndroidRuntime(18911): at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method) 12-09 16:16:18.161: E/AndroidRuntime(18911): Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Binary XML file line #1: You must supply a layout_width attribute. 12-09 16:16:18.161: E/AndroidRuntime(18911): at android.content.res.TypedArray.getLayoutDimension(TypedArray.java:491) 12-09 16:16:18.161: E/AndroidRuntime(18911): at android.view.ViewGroup$LayoutParams.setBaseAttributes(ViewGroup.java:3684) 12-09 16:16:18.161: E/AndroidRuntime(18911): at android.view.ViewGroup$MarginLayoutParams.<init>(ViewGroup.java:3764) 12-09 16:16:18.161: E/AndroidRuntime(18911): at android.widget.FrameLayout$LayoutParams.<init>(FrameLayout.java:457) 12-09 16:16:18.161: E/AndroidRuntime(18911): at android.widget.FrameLayout.generateLayoutParams(FrameLayout.java:423) 12-09 16:16:18.161: E/AndroidRuntime(18911): at android.widget.FrameLayout.generateLayoutParams(FrameLayout.java:47) 12-09 16:16:18.161: E/AndroidRuntime(18911): at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:396) 12-09 16:16:18.161: E/AndroidRuntime(18911): at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:320) 12-09 16:16:18.161: E/AndroidRuntime(18911): at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:276) 12-09 16:16:18.161: E/AndroidRuntime(18911): at com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneWindow.setContentView(PhoneWindow.java:231) 12-09 16:16:18.161: E/AndroidRuntime(18911): at android.app.Activity.setContentView(Activity.java:1715) 12-09 16:16:18.161: E/AndroidRuntime(18911): at com.nirosadvice.converter.MainActivity.onCreate(MainActivity.java:87) 12-09 16:16:18.161: E/AndroidRuntime(18911): at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1072) 12-09 16:16:18.161: E/AndroidRuntime(18911): at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1785) 12-09 16:16:18.161: E/AndroidRuntime(18911): ... 11 more Thanks After Iv'e added the attributes to the XML - this is what i'm getting : CatLog: 12-09 16:42:33.168: E/AndroidRuntime(19065): FATAL EXCEPTION: main 12-09 16:42:33.168: E/AndroidRuntime(19065): java.lang.ClassCastException: android.view.ViewGroup$LayoutParams 12-09 16:42:33.168: E/AndroidRuntime(19065): at android.widget.LinearLayout.measureVertical(LinearLayout.java:360) 12-09 16:42:33.168: E/AndroidRuntime(19065): at android.widget.LinearLayout.onMeasure(LinearLayout.java:309) 12-09 16:42:33.168: E/AndroidRuntime(19065): at android.view.View.measure(View.java:8526) 12-09 16:42:33.168: E/AndroidRuntime(19065): at android.view.ViewGroup.measureChildWithMargins(ViewGroup.java:3224) 12-09 16:42:33.168: E/AndroidRuntime(19065): at android.widget.FrameLayout.onMeasure(FrameLayout.java:250) 12-09 16:42:33.168: E/AndroidRuntime(19065): at android.view.View.measure(View.java:8526) 12-09 16:42:33.168: E/AndroidRuntime(19065): at android.view.ViewGroup.measureChildWithMargins(ViewGroup.java:3224) 12-09 16:42:33.168: E/AndroidRuntime(19065): at android.widget.FrameLayout.onMeasure(FrameLayout.java:250) 12-09 16:42:33.168: E/AndroidRuntime(19065): at android.view.View.measure(View.java:8526) 12-09 16:42:33.168: E/AndroidRuntime(19065): at android.view.ViewRoot.performTraversals(ViewRoot.java:902) 12-09 16:42:33.168: E/AndroidRuntime(19065): at android.view.ViewRoot.handleMessage(ViewRoot.java:1957) 12-09 16:42:33.168: E/AndroidRuntime(19065): at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99) 12-09 16:42:33.168: E/AndroidRuntime(19065): at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:150) 12-09 16:42:33.168: E/AndroidRuntime(19065): at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4263) 12-09 16:42:33.168: E/AndroidRuntime(19065): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method) 12-09 16:42:33.168: E/AndroidRuntime(19065): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:507) 12-09 16:42:33.168: E/AndroidRuntime(19065): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:839) 12-09 16:42:33.168: E/AndroidRuntime(19065): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:597) 12-09 16:42:33.168: E/AndroidRuntime(19065): at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method) 12-09 16:42:39.023: E/AnalyticsSDKTest.cpp(6338): Time w/ UTC Offset: 2012-12-09 21:42:39-05:00 12-09 16:42:49.013: E/AndroidRuntime(19095): FATAL EXCEPTION: main 12-09 16:42:49.013: E/AndroidRuntime(19095): java.lang.ClassCastException: android.view.ViewGroup$LayoutParams 12-09 16:42:49.013: E/AndroidRuntime(19095): at android.widget.LinearLayout.measureVertical(LinearLayout.java:360) 12-09 16:42:49.013: E/AndroidRuntime(19095): at android.widget.LinearLayout.onMeasure(LinearLayout.java:309) 12-09 16:42:49.013: E/AndroidRuntime(19095): at android.view.View.measure(View.java:8526) 12-09 16:42:49.013: E/AndroidRuntime(19095): at android.view.ViewGroup.measureChildWithMargins(ViewGroup.java:3224) 12-09 16:42:49.013: E/AndroidRuntime(19095): at android.widget.FrameLayout.onMeasure(FrameLayout.java:250) 12-09 16:42:49.013: E/AndroidRuntime(19095): at android.view.View.measure(View.java:8526) 12-09 16:42:49.013: E/AndroidRuntime(19095): at android.view.ViewGroup.measureChildWithMargins(ViewGroup.java:3224) 12-09 16:42:49.013: E/AndroidRuntime(19095): at android.widget.FrameLayout.onMeasure(FrameLayout.java:250) 12-09 16:42:49.013: E/AndroidRuntime(19095): at android.view.View.measure(View.java:8526) 12-09 16:42:49.013: E/AndroidRuntime(19095): at android.view.ViewRoot.performTraversals(ViewRoot.java:902) 12-09 16:42:49.013: E/AndroidRuntime(19095): at android.view.ViewRoot.handleMessage(ViewRoot.java:1957) 12-09 16:42:49.013: E/AndroidRuntime(19095): at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99) 12-09 16:42:49.013: E/AndroidRuntime(19095): at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:150) 12-09 16:42:49.013: E/AndroidRuntime(19095): at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4263) 12-09 16:42:49.013: E/AndroidRuntime(19095): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method) 12-09 16:42:49.013: E/AndroidRuntime(19095): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:507) 12-09 16:42:49.013: E/AndroidRuntime(19095): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:839) 12-09 16:42:49.013: E/AndroidRuntime(19095): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:597) 12-09 16:42:49.013: E/AndroidRuntime(19095): at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method) 12-09 16:44:00.913: E/AndroidRuntime(19148): FATAL EXCEPTION: main 12-09 16:44:00.913: E/AndroidRuntime(19148): java.lang.ClassCastException: android.view.ViewGroup$LayoutParams 12-09 16:44:00.913: E/AndroidRuntime(19148): at android.widget.LinearLayout.measureVertical(LinearLayout.java:360) 12-09 16:44:00.913: E/AndroidRuntime(19148): at android.widget.LinearLayout.onMeasure(LinearLayout.java:309) 12-09 16:44:00.913: E/AndroidRuntime(19148): at android.view.View.measure(View.java:8526) 12-09 16:44:00.913: E/AndroidRuntime(19148): at android.view.ViewGroup.measureChildWithMargins(ViewGroup.java:3224) 12-09 16:44:00.913: E/AndroidRuntime(19148): at android.widget.FrameLayout.onMeasure(FrameLayout.java:250) 12-09 16:44:00.913: E/AndroidRuntime(19148): at android.view.View.measure(View.java:8526) 12-09 16:44:00.913: E/AndroidRuntime(19148): at android.view.ViewGroup.measureChildWithMargins(ViewGroup.java:3224) 12-09 16:44:00.913: E/AndroidRuntime(19148): at android.widget.FrameLayout.onMeasure(FrameLayout.java:250) 12-09 16:44:00.913: E/AndroidRuntime(19148): at android.view.View.measure(View.java:8526) 12-09 16:44:00.913: E/AndroidRuntime(19148): at android.view.ViewRoot.performTraversals(ViewRoot.java:902) 12-09 16:44:00.913: E/AndroidRuntime(19148): at android.view.ViewRoot.handleMessage(ViewRoot.java:1957) 12-09 16:44:00.913: E/AndroidRuntime(19148): at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99) 12-09 16:44:00.913: E/AndroidRuntime(19148): at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:150) 12-09 16:44:00.913: E/AndroidRuntime(19148): at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4263) 12-09 16:44:00.913: E/AndroidRuntime(19148): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method) 12-09 16:44:00.913: E/AndroidRuntime(19148): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:507) 12-09 16:44:00.913: E/AndroidRuntime(19148): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:839) 12-09 16:44:00.913: E/AndroidRuntime(19148): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:597) 12-09 16:44:00.913: E/AndroidRuntime(19148): at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method) 12-09 16:44:02.935: E/InputDispatcher(121): channel '4056b9c8 com.nirosadvice.converter/com.nirosadvice.converter.MainActivity (server)' ~ Consumer closed input channel or an error occurred. events=0x8 12-09 16:44:02.935: E/InputDispatcher(121): channel '4056b9c8 com.nirosadvice.converter/com.nirosadvice.converter.MainActivity (server)' ~ Channel is unrecoverably broken and will be disposed! 12-09 16:45:25.075: E/AndroidRuntime(19210): FATAL EXCEPTION: main 12-09 16:45:25.075: E/AndroidRuntime(19210): java.lang.ClassCastException: android.view.ViewGroup$LayoutParams 12-09 16:45:25.075: E/AndroidRuntime(19210): at android.widget.LinearLayout.measureVertical(LinearLayout.java:360) 12-09 16:45:25.075: E/AndroidRuntime(19210): at android.widget.LinearLayout.onMeasure(LinearLayout.java:309) 12-09 16:45:25.075: E/AndroidRuntime(19210): at android.view.View.measure(View.java:8526) 12-09 16:45:25.075: E/AndroidRuntime(19210): at android.view.ViewGroup.measureChildWithMargins(ViewGroup.java:3224) 12-09 16:45:25.075: E/AndroidRuntime(19210): at android.widget.FrameLayout.onMeasure(FrameLayout.java:250) 12-09 16:45:25.075: E/AndroidRuntime(19210): at android.view.View.measure(View.java:8526) 12-09 16:45:25.075: E/AndroidRuntime(19210): at android.view.ViewGroup.measureChildWithMargins(ViewGroup.java:3224) 12-09 16:45:25.075: E/AndroidRuntime(19210): at android.widget.FrameLayout.onMeasure(FrameLayout.java:250) 12-09 16:45:25.075: E/AndroidRuntime(19210): at android.view.View.measure(View.java:8526) 12-09 16:45:25.075: E/AndroidRuntime(19210): at android.view.ViewRoot.performTraversals(ViewRoot.java:902) 12-09 16:45:25.075: E/AndroidRuntime(19210): at android.view.ViewRoot.handleMessage(ViewRoot.java:1957) 12-09 16:45:25.075: E/AndroidRuntime(19210): at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99) 12-09 16:45:25.075: E/AndroidRuntime(19210): at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:150) 12-09 16:45:25.075: E/AndroidRuntime(19210): at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4263) 12-09 16:45:25.075: E/AndroidRuntime(19210): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method) 12-09 16:45:25.075: E/AndroidRuntime(19210): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:507) 12-09 16:45:25.075: E/AndroidRuntime(19210): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:839) 12-09 16:45:25.075: E/AndroidRuntime(19210): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:597) 12-09 16:45:25.075: E/AndroidRuntime(19210): at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method) 12-09 16:50:34.507: E/AndroidRuntime(19358): FATAL EXCEPTION: main 12-09 16:50:34.507: E/AndroidRuntime(19358): java.lang.ClassCastException: android.view.ViewGroup$LayoutParams 12-09 16:50:34.507: E/AndroidRuntime(19358): at android.widget.LinearLayout.measureVertical(LinearLayout.java:360) 12-09 16:50:34.507: E/AndroidRuntime(19358): at android.widget.LinearLayout.onMeasure(LinearLayout.java:309) 12-09 16:50:34.507: E/AndroidRuntime(19358): at android.view.View.measure(View.java:8526) 12-09 16:50:34.507: E/AndroidRuntime(19358): at android.view.ViewGroup.measureChildWithMargins(ViewGroup.java:3224) 12-09 16:50:34.507: E/AndroidRuntime(19358): at android.widget.FrameLayout.onMeasure(FrameLayout.java:250) 12-09 16:50:34.507: E/AndroidRuntime(19358): at android.view.View.measure(View.java:8526) 12-09 16:50:34.507: E/AndroidRuntime(19358): at android.view.ViewGroup.measureChildWithMargins(ViewGroup.java:3224) 12-09 16:50:34.507: E/AndroidRuntime(19358): at android.widget.FrameLayout.onMeasure(FrameLayout.java:250) 12-09 16:50:34.507: E/AndroidRuntime(19358): at android.view.View.measure(View.java:8526) 12-09 16:50:34.507: E/AndroidRuntime(19358): at android.view.ViewRoot.performTraversals(ViewRoot.java:902) 12-09 16:50:34.507: E/AndroidRuntime(19358): at android.view.ViewRoot.handleMessage(ViewRoot.java:1957) 12-09 16:50:34.507: E/AndroidRuntime(19358): at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99) 12-09 16:50:34.507: E/AndroidRuntime(19358): at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:150) 12-09 16:50:34.507: E/AndroidRuntime(19358): at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4263) 12-09 16:50:34.507: E/AndroidRuntime(19358): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method) 12-09 16:50:34.507: E/AndroidRuntime(19358): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:507) 12-09 16:50:34.507: E/AndroidRuntime(19358): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:839) 12-09 16:50:34.507: E/AndroidRuntime(19358): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:597) 12-09 16:50:34.507: E/AndroidRuntime(19358): at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method) Third try - after changing the Frame to Linear : 12-09 17:42:39.076: E/AnalyticsSDKTest.cpp(6338): Time w/ UTC Offset: 2012-12-09 22:42:39-05:00 12-09 17:55:44.141: E/ActivityManager(121): Fix ANR:broadcast when App died 12-09 17:55:44.722: E/AndroidRuntime(19469): FATAL EXCEPTION: main 12-09 17:55:44.722: E/AndroidRuntime(19469): java.lang.ClassCastException: android.view.ViewGroup$LayoutParams 12-09 17:55:44.722: E/AndroidRuntime(19469): at android.widget.LinearLayout.measureVertical(LinearLayout.java:360) 12-09 17:55:44.722: E/AndroidRuntime(19469): at android.widget.LinearLayout.onMeasure(LinearLayout.java:309) 12-09 17:55:44.722: E/AndroidRuntime(19469): at android.view.View.measure(View.java:8526) 12-09 17:55:44.722: E/AndroidRuntime(19469): at android.view.ViewGroup.measureChildWithMargins(ViewGroup.java:3224) 12-09 17:55:44.722: E/AndroidRuntime(19469): at android.widget.FrameLayout.onMeasure(FrameLayout.java:250) 12-09 17:55:44.722: E/AndroidRuntime(19469): at android.view.View.measure(View.java:8526) 12-09 17:55:44.722: E/AndroidRuntime(19469): at android.view.ViewGroup.measureChildWithMargins(ViewGroup.java:3224) 12-09 17:55:44.722: E/AndroidRuntime(19469): at android.widget.FrameLayout.onMeasure(FrameLayout.java:250) 12-09 17:55:44.722: E/AndroidRuntime(19469): at android.view.View.measure(View.java:8526) 12-09 17:55:44.722: E/AndroidRuntime(19469): at android.view.ViewRoot.performTraversals(ViewRoot.java:902) 12-09 17:55:44.722: E/AndroidRuntime(19469): at android.view.ViewRoot.handleMessage(ViewRoot.java:1957) 12-09 17:55:44.722: E/AndroidRuntime(19469): at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99) 12-09 17:55:44.722: E/AndroidRuntime(19469): at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:150) 12-09 17:55:44.722: E/AndroidRuntime(19469): at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4263) 12-09 17:55:44.722: E/AndroidRuntime(19469): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method) 12-09 17:55:44.722: E/AndroidRuntime(19469): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:507) 12-09 17:55:44.722: E/AndroidRuntime(19469): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:839) 12-09 17:55:44.722: E/AndroidRuntime(19469): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:597) 12-09 17:55:44.722: E/AndroidRuntime(19469): at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)

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Proin fermentum blandit justo, id faucibus elit feugiat ut. Nulla quam elit, tristique gravida ultrices in, imperdiet et enim.</p> <p>Aliquam malesuada, nibh eget laoreet malesuada, lorem ligula gravida eros, a consectetur dui odio id urna. Vivamus tincidunt porttitor facilisis. Maecenas vitae lacus at lorem porttitor sodales. Duis et velit ac ipsum cursus ornare. Aliquam eu rhoncus est. Cras nec facilisis tellus. Nunc in felis odio. Nam facilisis dui eu lacus egestas sit amet malesuada dolor volutpat. In placerat dictum turpis ac vulputate. Suspendisse neque odio, elementum sagittis sollicitudin quis, eleifend ac orci. Proin suscipit molestie orci non venenatis. Sed metus mauris, laoreet id lobortis at, tempor eu erat. Mauris tempor, nisi id interdum tempor, tellus ligula pretium mi, a viverra nibh neque vitae est. Integer mattis, lorem ac congue fermentum, quam ipsum gravida erat, in egestas lorem eros ac massa. Vestibulum lobortis ante libero, vel fermentum ante. Aliquam augue ipsum, ullamcorper sit amet dictum id, commodo sit amet lacus. Vivamus elit purus, elementum a vestibulum quis, iaculis id metus. Cras facilisis orci in nulla consequat gravida. Integer blandit, felis at lacinia porta, lacus velit pretium magna, ut eleifend diam magna a justo. Donec scelerisque diam quis nisi molestie vel egestas urna condimentum. </p> <script type="text/javascript"> Effect.Shake('floating_text'); </script> </body> </html>

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• Things you can draw with HTML tables

  - by Coronatus

  So I was watching a talk by Google's Marissa Mayer about speeding up Google's pages. They found that a shopping cart icon increased load time by 2%, and users then searched 2% less. They managed to replace the icon with an HTML table. Here is my attempt at drawing a shopping cart: (live example page) <html> <head> <style> table {border-collapse: collapse;} th, td {width: 8px; height: 8px;} th {background-color: blue;} td {background-color: white;} </style> </head> <body> <table> <!-- this row is just to see alignment --> <tr> <td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td> <td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td> <td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td> <td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td> </tr> <!-- handle --> <tr> <td colspan="14"></td> <th colspan="3"></th> <td colspan="3"></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="13"></td> <th colspan="2"></th> <td colspan="1"></td> <th colspan="2"></th> <td colspan="2"></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="13"></td> <th colspan="2"></th> <td colspan="1"></td> <th colspan="2"></th> <td colspan="2"></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="14"></td> <th colspan="3"></th> <td colspan="3"></td> </tr> <!-- main body --> <tr> <td colspan="5"></td> <th colspan="13"></th> <td colspan="2"></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="5"></td> <th colspan="1"></th> <td colspan="1"></td> <th colspan="1"></th> <td colspan="1"></td> <th colspan="1"></th> <td colspan="1"></td> <th colspan="1"></th> <td colspan="1"></td> <th colspan="1"></th> <td colspan="1"></td> <th colspan="1"></th> <td colspan="1"></td> <th colspan="1"></th> <td colspan="2"></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="5"></td> <th colspan="1"></th> <th colspan="1"></th> <td colspan="1"></td> <th colspan="1"></th> <td colspan="1"></td> <th colspan="1"></th> <td colspan="1"></td> <th colspan="1"></th> <td colspan="1"></td> <th colspan="1"></th> <td colspan="1"></td> <th colspan="1"></th> <th colspan="1"></th> <td colspan="3"></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="5"></td> <th colspan="1"></th> <td colspan="1"></td> <th colspan="1"></th> <td colspan="1"></td> <th colspan="1"></th> <td colspan="1"></td> <th colspan="1"></th> <td colspan="1"></td> <th colspan="1"></th> <td colspan="1"></td> <th colspan="1"></th> <td colspan="1"></td> <th colspan="1"></th> <td colspan="2"></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="5"></td> <th colspan="1"></th> <th colspan="1"></th> <td colspan="1"></td> <th colspan="1"></th> <td colspan="1"></td> <th colspan="1"></th> <td colspan="1"></td> <th colspan="1"></th> <td colspan="1"></td> <th colspan="1"></th> <td colspan="1"></td> <th colspan="1"></th> <th colspan="1"></th> <td colspan="3"></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="5"></td> <th colspan="1"></th> <td colspan="1"></td> <th colspan="1"></th> <td colspan="1"></td> <th colspan="1"></th> <td colspan="1"></td> <th colspan="1"></th> <td colspan="1"></td> <th colspan="1"></th> <td colspan="1"></td> <th colspan="1"></th> <td colspan="1"></td> <th colspan="1"></th> <td colspan="2"></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="5"></td> <th colspan="1"></th> <th colspan="1"></th> <td colspan="1"></td> <th colspan="1"></th> <td colspan="1"></td> <th colspan="1"></th> <td colspan="1"></td> <th colspan="1"></th> <td colspan="1"></td> <th colspan="1"></th> <td colspan="1"></td> <th colspan="1"></th> <th colspan="1"></th> <td colspan="3"></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="5"></td> <th colspan="1"></th> <td colspan="1"></td> <th colspan="1"></th> <td colspan="1"></td> <th colspan="1"></th> <td colspan="1"></td> <th colspan="1"></th> <td colspan="1"></td> <th colspan="1"></th> <td colspan="1"></td> <th colspan="1"></th> <td colspan="1"></td> <th colspan="1"></th> <td colspan="2"></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="5"></td> <th colspan="1"></th> <th colspan="1"></th> <td colspan="1"></td> <th colspan="1"></th> <td colspan="1"></td> <th colspan="1"></th> <td colspan="1"></td> <th colspan="1"></th> <td colspan="1"></td> <th colspan="1"></th> <td colspan="1"></td> <th colspan="1"></th> <th colspan="1"></th> <td colspan="3"></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="5"></td> <th colspan="13"></th> <td colspan="2"></td> </tr> <!-- wheels --> <tr> <td colspan="7"></td> <th colspan="2"></th> <td colspan="4"></td> <th colspan="2"></th> <td colspan="5"></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="6"></td> <th colspan="4"></th> <td colspan="2"></td> <th colspan="4"></th> <td colspan="4"></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="7"></td> <th colspan="2"></th> <td colspan="4"></td> <th colspan="2"></th> <td colspan="5"></td> </tr> </table> </body> </html> What can you draw in tables?! Impress us.

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• please help me to add the html fields in the following link [closed]

  - by user237389

  Link Name: http://business.careerbuilderinstitute.com/testportal/webservices/iscapi.asmx/CreateUser html code register.html <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>Web-Service User Registration Form</title> </head> <body> <b style="font-size:20px; color:#3366CC">CreateUser</b><br/><br/> Create a user account. User may be assigned to a particular hierarchy level.<br/><br/> <b>Test</b><br/><br/> To test the operation using the HTTP POST protocol, click the 'Invoke' button. <form action="http://business.careerbuilderinstitute.com/testportal/webservices/iscapi.asmx/CreateUser" method="POST"/> <table width="542" border="0" style="margin-left:25px;"> <tr> <th width="172" style="background-color:#c0c0c0;">Parameter</th> <th width="360" style="background-color:#c0c0c0;">Value</th> </tr> <tr> <input name="authorizationId" type="text" value="TestService" size="60" /> </tr> <tr> <input name="passcode" type="hidden" value="welcome" size="60"/> </tr> <tr> <input name="organizationId" type="hidden" value="27" size="60"/> </tr> <tr> <input name="globalUniqueId" type="hidden" value="GUID" size="60"/> </tr> <tr> <input name="hierarchyID" type="hidden" value="0" size="60"/> </tr> <tr> <input name="hireDate" type="hidden" value="1" size="60"/> </tr> <tr> <input name="studentProfileId" type="hidden" value="0" size="60"/> </tr> <tr> <input name="alternateId" type="hidden" value="0" size="60"/> </tr> <tr> <input name="alternateId2" type="hidden" value="0" size="60"/> </tr> <tr> <input name="alternateId3" type="hidden" value="0" size="60"/> </tr> <tr> <input name="ssn" type="hidden" value="0" size="60"/> </tr> <tr> <input name="license" type="hidden" value="0" size="60"/> </tr> <tr> <input name="comments" type="hidden" value="0" size="60"/> </tr> <tr> <input name="clientDrive" type="hidden" value="0" size="60"/> </tr> <tr> <input name="nickname" type="hidden" value="0" size="60"/> </tr> <tr> <input name="photoIcon" type="hidden" value="0" size="60"/> </tr> <tr> <input name="cellPhone" type="hidden" value="0" size="60"/> </tr> <tr> <input name="blogUniformResourceLocator" type="hidden" value="0" size="60"/> </tr> <tr> <input name="userResume" type="hidden" value="0" size="60"/> </tr> <tr> <input name="resumeAttach" type="hidden" value="0" size="60"/> </tr> <tr> <input name="education" type="hidden" value="0" size="60"/> </tr> <tr> <input name="experience" type="hidden" value="0" size="60"/> </tr> <tr> <input name="reflections" type="hidden" value="0" size="60"/> </tr> <tr> <input name="storeFrontID" type="hidden" value="0" size="60"/> </tr> <!-- <tr> <input name="resumeAttach" type="hidden" value="0" size="60"/> </tr> --> <tr> <input name="siteadministrator" type="hidden" value="0" size="60" /> </tr> <tr> <input name="instructor" type="hidden" value="0" size="60" /> </tr> <tr> <input name="student" type="hidden" value="1" size="60" /> </tr> <tr> <input name="supervisor" type="hidden" value="0" size="60"/> </tr> <!-- "This field should be passed in the URL with Account did" <tr> <input name="hierarchyID" type="hidden" value="0" size="60"/> </tr> "This field is not required" <tr> <input name="studentProfileId" type="hidden" value="" /> </tr> <tr> --> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" align="left">firstName:</th> <td><input name="firstName" type="text" size="60" id="firstName"/></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" align="left">lastName:</th> <td><input name="lastName" type="text" size="60"/></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" align="left">userName:</th> <td><input name="userName" type="text" size="60" /></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" align="left">password:</th> <td><input name="password" type="password" size="60" /></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" align="left">email:</th> <td><input name="email" type="text" size="60" /></td> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" align="left">organization:</th> <td><input name="organization" type="text" size="60" /></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" align="left">jobTitle:</th> <td><input name="jobTitle" type="text" size="60" /></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" align="left">department:</th> <td><input name="department" type="text" size="60" /></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" align="left">location:</th> <td><input name="location" type="text" size="60" /></td> </tr> <th scope="row" align="left">phone:</th> <td><input name="phone" type="text" size="60" /></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" align="left">fax:</th> <td><input name="fax" type="text" size="60" /></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" align="left">address:</th> <td><input name="address" type="text" size="60" /></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" align="left">address2:</th> <td><input name="address2" type="text" size="60" /></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" align="left">city:</th> <td><input name="city" type="text" size="60" /></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" align="left">state:</th> <td><input name="state" type="text" size="60" /></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" align="left">country:</th> <td><input name="country" type="text" size="60" /></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" align="left">zip:</th> <td><input name="zip" type="text" size="60" /></td> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> <input name="languagePreference" type="hidden" value="1" size="60" /> </tr> <tr> <input name="active" type="hidden" value="1" size="60" /> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" align="left"></th> <td><input name="Invoke" type="submit" value="Invoke" /></td> </tr> </table> </form> </body> </html>

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• How to Submit Form Given Specific Json Response

  - by dentalhero

  I'm new to Json, so please excuse the newb question. I have a form in which I'm conducting an Ajax post to submit address information to a backend script for validation. Here's the form: <form name="Form" id="Forms" method="post" action="WebCatPageServer.exe" class="uniForm"> <input name="Action" type="hidden" value="SHIPTOVALIDATE"/> <input name="IsAjax" type="hidden" value="Yes"/> <!-- <input name="Action" type="hidden" value="VerifyOrder"/>--> <fieldset class="inlineLabels top"> <h2>Order Details</h2> <div class="ctrlHolder first"> <label for="orderdesc">Order Description</label> <input name="Order Desc" id="OrderDesc" type="text" class="textInput small" tabindex="1" value=""/> </div> <div class="ctrlHolder"> <label for="po">PO # <span class="redasterisk">*</span></label> <input name="Cust Po" id="PoJobNo" type="text" class="textInput small required" maxlength="20" tabindex="2" value="dgnfg"/> </div> <!-- <div class="ctrlHolder"> <label for="jobname">Job Name</label> <input name="Job Name" id="CustJobName" type="text" class="textInput small" maxlength="15" tabindex="3" value=""/> </div> --> <div class="ctrlHolder"> <label for="shipvia">Ship Via <span class="redasterisk">*</span></label> <select name="Ship Via" id="shipvia" class="selectInput small required" tabindex="4"/> <option value="" class="default">Select Ship Method</option> <option value="OT - Our Truck" class="del" selected>Our Truck</option> <option value="WC - Will Call" class="pick">Will Call</option> </select> </div> <div class="ctrlHolder" id="pickupdate"> <label for="datepickup">Requested Pickup Date <span class="redasterisk">*</span></label> <input name="datepickup" id="datepickup" type="text" class="textInput small" tabindex="5" value="11/09/2012"> </div> <div class="ctrlHolder" id="shipdate"> <label for="dateship">Requested Delivery Date <span class="redasterisk">*</span></label> <input name="dateship" id="dateship" type="text" class="textInput small" value="" tabindex="6"> </div> <div class="ctrlHolder" id="shipto"> <label for="ShipTo">Ship To <span class="redasterisk">*</span></label> <select name="ShipTos" id="ShipTos" class="selectInput auto required" tabindex="7"> <option value="">Select an Option</option> <option value="ShipToManual" class="manual">Manually Enter Address</option> <option value="0">A ACTION AIR*, 5241 YANCEYVILLE, COLUMBIA, SC 29214-0001</option> <option value="1">A ACTION AIR*, 649 spring lane, sanford, NC 27330</option> <option value="2">A ACTION AIR*, 1313 south briggs avenue, durham, NC 27703</option> <option value="3">A ACTION AIR*, 112 cricket hill lane, cary, NC 27513</option> <option value="4">A ACTION AIR*, 2911 duke homestead road, durham, NC 27705</option> <option value="5">A ACTION AIR*, chickem poop, atlanta, GA 60609</option> </select> <br /> </div> </fieldset> <fieldset class="inlineLabels" id="shipinfo"> <h2>Shipping Information</h2> <div class="ctrlHolder first"> <label for="YourName">Your Name <span class="redasterisk">*</span></label> <input name="Your Name" id="Your_Name" type="text" class="textInput small required" tabindex="8" value="" /> </div> <div class="ctrlHolder"> <label for="CompanyName">Company Name <span class="redasterisk">*</span></label> <input name="Company Name" id="CompanyName" type="text" class="textInput small required" tabindex="9" value="A ACTION AIR*"/> </div> <div class="ctrlHolder"> <label for="Address1">Address 1 <span class="redasterisk">*</span></label> <input name="Address_1" id="Address_1" type="text" maxlength="30" class="textInput small required" tabindex="10" value="5241 YANCEYVILLE"/> </div> <div class="ctrlHolder"> <label for="Address2">Address 2</label> <input name="Address_2" id="Address_2" type="text" maxlength="30" class="textInput small" tabindex="11" value=""/> </div> <div class="ctrlHolder"> <label for="City">City <span class="redasterisk">*</span></label> <input name="City" id="City" type="text" maxlength="25" class="textInput small required" tabindex="12" value="COLUMBIA"/> </div> <div class="ctrlHolder"> <label for="State">State <span class="redasterisk">*</span></label> <select name="State" id="State" class="selectInput small required" tabindex="13"> <option value="">Select State</option> <option value="AL">Alabama</option> <option value="AK">Alaska</option> <option value="AZ">Arizona</option> <option value="AR">Arkansas</option> <option value="CA">California</option> <option value="CO">Colorado</option> <option value="CT">Connecticut</option> <option value="DE">Delaware</option> <option value="FL">Florida</option> <option value="GA">Georgia</option> <option value="HI">Hawaii</option> <option value="ID">Idaho</option> <option value="IL">Illinois</option> <option value="IN">Indiana</option> <option value="IA">Iowa</option> <option value="KS">Kansas</option> <option value="KY">Kentucky</option> <option value="LA">Louisiana</option> <option value="ME">Maine</option> <option value="MD">Maryland</option> <option value="MA">Massachussetts</option> <option value="MI">Michigan</option> <option value="MN">Minnesota</option> <option value="MS">Mississippi</option> <option value="MO">Missouri</option> <option value="MT">Montana</option> <option value="NE">Nebraska</option> <option value="NV">Nevada</option> <option value="NH">New Hampshire</option> <option value="NJ">New Jersey</option> <option value="NM">New Mexico</option> <option value="NY">New York</option> <option value="NC">North Carolina</option> <option value="ND">North Dakota</option> <option value="OH">Ohio</option> <option value="OK">Oklahoma</option> <option value="OR">Oregon</option> <option value="PA">Pennsylvania</option> <option value="RI">Rhode Island</option> <option value="SC" selected>South Carolina</option> <option value="SD">South Dakota</option> <option value="TN">Tennessee</option> <option value="TX">Texas</option> <option value="UT">Utah</option> <option value="VT">Vermont</option> <option value="VA">Virginia</option> <option value="WA">Washington</option> <option value="WV">West Virginia</option> <option value="WI">Wisconsin</option> <option value="WY">Wyoming</option> </select> </div> <div class="ctrlHolder"> <label for="ZipCode">Zip Code <span class="redasterisk">*</span></label> <input name="Zip" id="Zip" type="text" maxlength="10" class="textInput small required zipcode" tabindex="14" value=""/> </div> <div class="ctrlHolder"> <label for="Phone">Phone <span class="redasterisk">*</span></label> <input name="Phone Number" id="Phone" type="text" class="textInput small required phone" alt="phone-us" tabindex="15" value="(336)954-5009"/> </div> <div class="ctrlHolder"> <label for="Fax">Fax</label> <input name="FaxNumber" id="Fax Number" type="text" class="textInput small fax" alt="phone-us" tabindex="16" value=""/> </div> <div class="ctrlHolder"> <label for="">E-mail <span class="redasterisk">*</span></label> <input name="Email" id="Email" type="text" class="textInput small required email" tabindex="17" value=""/> </div> </fieldset> <fieldset class="inlineLabels"> <h2>Order/Shipping Notes</h2> <div class="ctrlHolder first"> <label for="notes">Order Notes </label> <textarea name="OrderNotes" id="ta" cols="26" rows="7" tabindex="18"></textarea><br /> <p class="formHint"><b>(Maximum characters: 175) &nbsp; <span id="charLeft"></span> &nbsp; Characters left</b><br /> (Cross streets, special instructions, etc.)</p> <br /> </div> </fieldset> <fieldset class="inlineLabels"> <h2>Continue To Next Step</h2> <div class="buttonHolder"> <label for="freightmsg">**Applicable freight charges will be applied at the time of invoicing.**</label> <input name="continuetocheckout" type="submit" class="button red smallrounded" value="Continue &gt;" alt="Continue to Next Step" tabindex="20"/> </div> </fieldset> </form> AJAX Call Here's the AJAX call: $(function() { $("#Forms").submit(function() { $.ajax({ type: 'post', url: 'WebCatPageServer.exe', dataType : 'json', data: $("#Forms").serialize(), complete:function(data){ alert(data); } }); return false; }); }); JSON Response Here's the JSON response: {"DidValidate":true,"Company Name":"A ACTION AIR*","AddrLine1":"5241 YANCEYVILLE","AddrLine2":"","City":"COLUMBIA","State":"SC","Zip":"","Modified":false,"AddressError":false,"ZipError":false} Question: How do I submit the form programatically if both AddressError and ZipError return with a false?

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• Boot log from remotely managed/hacked iPhone for analysis

  - by user1319903

  in reference to my other post. syslog captured immediately after a hard reset for analysis of foul play. Apr 8, 2012 10:08:36 PM - dataaccessd [53] (Notice): 137860|CoreDAV|Warn |Account "iCloud" couldn't reach the server at p03-contacts.icloud.com: Error Domain=NSURLErrorDomain Code=-1009 "The Internet connection appears to be offline." UserInfo=0xde63920 {NSErrorFailingURLStringKey=https://%[email protected]/159665024/principal/, NSErrorFailingURLKey=https://%[email protected]/ /principal/, NSLocalizedDescription=The Internet connection appears to be offline., NSUnderlyingError=0xde7dc00 "The Internet connection appears to be offline."} Apr 8, 2012 10:08:36 PM - UserEventAgent [12] (Warning): TRACE: connection interrupted Apr 8, 2012 10:08:36 PM - UserEventAgent [12] (Warning): DEBUG: disconnected Apr 8, 2012 10:08:36 PM - UserEventAgent [12] (Warning): TRACE: Canceling Apr 8, 2012 10:08:36 PM - UserEventAgent [12] (Warning): TRACE: connection invalid Apr 8, 2012 10:08:35 PM - kernel [0] (Debug): launchd[82] Builtin profile: container (sandbox) Apr 8, 2012 10:08:35 PM - kernel [0] (Debug): launchd[82] Container: /private/var/mobile/Applications/048D35CA-6427-4EC8-8B76-A194697A7CE9 [69] (sandbox) Apr 8, 2012 10:08:35 PM - wifid [29] (Error): WiFi:[355640915.904103]: Client dataaccessd set type to background application Apr 8, 2012 10:08:35 PM - dataaccessd [53] (Notice): 137860|DA|Warn |Delegate 5ADDBE3B-D5FD-43E1-87D4-C1153733EFAB finished a refresh but it is not registered with the refresh manager Apr 8, 2012 10:08:34 PM - timed [31] (Notice): (Note ) CoreTime: Not setting system time to 04/09/2012 05:08:34 from GPS because time is unchanged Apr 8, 2012 10:08:34 PM - timed [31] (Notice): (Note ) CoreTime: Not setting time zone to America/Los_Angeles from NITZ Apr 8, 2012 10:08:33 PM - kernel [0] (Debug): AppleKeyStore:cp_key_store_action(1) Apr 8, 2012 10:08:33 PM - kernel [0] (Debug): AppleKeyStore:Sending lock change Apr 8, 2012 10:08:32 PM - profiled [20] (Notice): (Note ) profiled: Device unlock notification received Apr 8, 2012 10:08:31 PM - softwareupdated [37] (Notice): 3e828d98 : Cleaning up unused prepared updates Apr 8, 2012 10:08:27 PM - mstreamd [43] (Warning): PSDLog: Can't return photoStreamsPublishStreamID because no Apple Account has Photo Streams enabled Apr 8, 2012 10:08:27 PM - mstreamd [43] (Notice): (Note ) mstreamd: Not listening to push notifications. Apr 8, 2012 10:08:27 PM - mstreamd [43] (Warning): PSDLog: Can't return photoStreamsPublishStreamID because no Apple Account has Photo Streams enabled Apr 8, 2012 10:08:27 PM - mstreamd [43] (Notice): (Note ) mstreamd: Not listening to push notifications. Apr 8, 2012 10:08:27 PM - mstreamd [43] (Notice): (Note ) mstreamd: Retrieved push tokens. Dev: 0, Prod: 0 Apr 8, 2012 10:08:27 PM - mstreamd [43] (Notice): (Note ) mstreamd: Media stream daemon starting... Apr 8, 2012 10:08:26 PM - SpringBoard [15] (Notice): SMSCTServer is available and ready to rock. Apr 8, 2012 10:08:26 PM - SpringBoard [15] (Error): mms: * isMmsConfigured = 1 Apr 8, 2012 10:08:26 PM - MobilePhone [79] (Warning): Connection lost, retrying with key exchange. Apr 8, 2012 10:08:26 PM - MobilePhone [79] (Warning): Connection lost, retrying with key exchange. Apr 8, 2012 10:08:26 PM - MobilePhone [79] (Warning): Connection lost, retrying with key exchange. Apr 8, 2012 10:08:26 PM - MobilePhone [79] (Warning): Connection lost, retrying with key exchange. Apr 8, 2012 10:08:25 PM - SpringBoard [15] (Warning): BT: failed to get connectable state with error 111 Apr 8, 2012 10:08:25 PM - SpringBoard [15] (Error): WiFi: Consulting "no-sdio-devices" property. Apr 8, 2012 10:08:25 PM - SpringBoard [15] (Error): WiFi: "no-sdio-devices" property not found. Apr 8, 2012 10:08:25 PM - SpringBoard [15] (Warning): SMS Plugin initialized. Apr 8, 2012 10:08:25 PM - SpringBoard [15] (Warning): Telephony plugin initialized Apr 8, 2012 10:08:25 PM - SpringBoard [15] (Warning): SIMToolkit plugin for SpringBoard initialized. Apr 8, 2012 10:08:25 PM - SpringBoard [15] (Error): WiFi: Consulting "no-sdio-devices" property. Apr 8, 2012 10:08:25 PM - SpringBoard [15] (Error): WiFi: "no-sdio-devices" property not found. Apr 8, 2012 10:08:25 PM - SpringBoard [15] (Warning): WiFi picker plugin initialized Apr 8, 2012 10:08:25 PM - SpringBoard [15] (Warning): EKAlarmEngine: Region monitoring not available or enabled. Trigger ignored! Apr 8, 2012 10:08:24 PM - kernel [0] (Debug): AppleH4CamIn::setPowerStateGated: 0 Apr 8, 2012 10:08:24 PM - kernel [0] (Debug): AppleH4CamIn::power_off_hardware Apr 8, 2012 10:08:24 PM - SpringBoard [15] (Notice): IOMobileFrameBufferGetMirroringCapability returning -536870201 via kIOMFBConnectMethod_GetMirroringCapability  Apr 8, 2012 10:08:24 PM - aggregated [61] (Warning): PLAggregateState Error: Leaving state unplugged_screen_off even though we are not in it, doing nothing Apr 8, 2012 10:08:24 PM - aggregated [61] (Warning): PLAggregateState Error: Entering state unplugged_screen_on even though we are already in it, doing nothing Apr 8, 2012 10:08:24 PM - wifid [29] (Error): WiFi:[355640904.616440]: Disable WoW requested by "spd" Apr 8, 2012 10:08:24 PM - SpringBoard [15] (Warning): Application windows are expected to have a root view controller at the end of application launch Apr 8, 2012 10:08:23 PM - SpringBoard [15] (Warning): BTM: attaching to BTServer Apr 8, 2012 10:08:23 PM - kernel [0] (Debug): AppleH4CamIn::ISP_LoadFirmware_gated: fw len=1232920 Apr 8, 2012 10:08:23 PM - kernel [0] (Debug): AppleH4CamIn::ISP_LoadFirmware_gated - firmware checksum: 0x05935019 Apr 8, 2012 10:08:23 PM - kernel [0] (Debug): AppleH4CamIn::power_on_hardware Apr 8, 2012 10:08:23 PM - kernel [0] (Debug): AppleH4CamIn::ISP_Init - No set-file loaded for camera channel 0 Apr 8, 2012 10:08:23 PM - kernel [0] (Debug): AppleH4CamIn::ISP_Init - No set-file loaded for camera channel 1 Apr 8, 2012 10:08:23 PM - kernel [0] (Debug): AppleH4CamIn::ISP_InitialSensorDetection - found sensor on chan 0: 0x0145 Apr 8, 2012 10:08:23 PM - kernel [0] (Debug): AppleH4CamIn::ISP_InitialSensorDetection - found sensor on chan 1: 0x7736 Apr 8, 2012 10:08:23 PM - kernel [0] (Debug): AppleH4CamIn::power_off_hardware Apr 8, 2012 10:08:23 PM - kernel [0] (Debug): AppleH4CamIn::ISP_LoadSetfile_gated (camChan=0) Apr 8, 2012 10:08:23 PM - kernel [0] (Debug): AppleH4CamIn::ISP_LoadSetfile_gated (camChan=1) Apr 8, 2012 10:08:23 PM - kernel [0] (Debug): AppleH4CamIn::setPowerStateGated: 1 Apr 8, 2012 10:08:23 PM - kernel [0] (Debug): AppleH4CamIn::power_on_hardware Apr 8, 2012 10:08:23 PM - profiled [20] (Notice): (Note ) profiled: Locking device Apr 8, 2012 10:08:22 PM - kernel [0] (Debug): HighlandParkResourceMgr::AddFirmware() {'cdma', '    '} added to resources Apr 8, 2012 10:08:22 PM - kernel [0] (Debug): AppleSynopsysOTGDevice::gated_registerFunction Register function PTP Apr 8, 2012 10:08:22 PM - kernel [0] (Debug): AppleSynopsysOTGDevice::gated_registerFunction all functions registered- we are ready to start usb stack Apr 8, 2012 10:08:22 PM - kernel [0] (Debug): AppleSynopsysOTGDevice::handleUSBCableDisconnect Apr 8, 2012 10:08:22 PM - kernel [0] (Debug): HighlandParkResourceMgr::AddFirmware() {'gsm ', 'nb  '} added to resources Apr 8, 2012 10:08:22 PM - kernel [0] (Debug): HighlandParkResourceMgr::AddFirmware() {'gsm ', 'wb  '} added to resources Apr 8, 2012 10:08:22 PM - MRMLowDiskUEA [12] (Notice): MobileDelete: LowDisk Plugin: start Apr 8, 2012 10:08:22 PM - MRMLowDiskUEA [12] (Notice): kqueue registration successful Apr 8, 2012 10:08:22 PM - mediaserverd [44] (Error): 22:08:22.522867 com.apple.AVConference: /SourceCache/GameKitServices/GameKitServices-344.21/AVConference.subproj/Sources/AVConferenceServer.m:1867: AVConferenceServerStart Apr 8, 2012 10:08:22 PM - CommCenter [18] (Notice): Carrier bundle value for recipient address: 28818773 Apr 8, 2012 10:08:21 PM - kernel [0] (Debug): AppleSynopsysOTGDevice - Configuration: PTP Apr 8, 2012 10:08:21 PM - kernel [0] (Debug): AppleSynopsysOTGDevice          Interface: PTP Apr 8, 2012 10:08:21 PM - kernel [0] (Debug): AppleSynopsysOTGDevice - Configuration: iPod USB Interface Apr 8, 2012 10:08:21 PM - kernel [0] (Debug): AppleSynopsysOTGDevice          Interface: USBAudioControl Apr 8, 2012 10:08:21 PM - kernel [0] (Debug): AppleSynopsysOTGDevice          Interface: USBAudioStreaming Apr 8, 2012 10:08:21 PM - kernel [0] (Debug): AppleSynopsysOTGDevice          Interface: IapOverUsbHid Apr 8, 2012 10:08:21 PM - kernel [0] (Debug): AppleSynopsysOTGDevice - Configuration: PTP + Apple Mobile Device Apr 8, 2012 10:08:21 PM - kernel [0] (Debug): AppleSynopsysOTGDevice          Interface: PTP Apr 8, 2012 10:08:21 PM - kernel [0] (Debug): AppleSynopsysOTGDevice          Interface: AppleUSBMux Apr 8, 2012 10:08:21 PM - kernel [0] (Debug): AppleSynopsysOTGDevice - Configuration: PTP + Apple Mobile Device + Apple USB Ethernet Apr 8, 2012 10:08:21 PM - kernel [0] (Debug): AppleSynopsysOTGDevice          Interface: PTP Apr 8, 2012 10:08:21 PM - kernel [0] (Debug): AppleSynopsysOTGDevice          Interface: AppleUSBMux Apr 8, 2012 10:08:21 PM - kernel [0] (Debug): AppleSynopsysOTGDevice          Interface: AppleUSBEthernet Apr 8, 2012 10:08:21 PM - kernel [0] (Debug): IOAccessoryPortUSB::start Apr 8, 2012 10:08:21 PM - kernel [0] (Debug): AppleSynopsysOTGDevice::gated_registerFunction Register function USBAudioControl Apr 8, 2012 10:08:21 PM - kernel [0] (Debug): virtual bool AppleUSBDeviceMux::start(IOService*) build: Feb  1 2012 23:16:46 Apr 8, 2012 10:08:21 PM - kernel [0] (Debug): init_waste Apr 8, 2012 10:08:21 PM - kernel [0] (Debug): AppleSynopsysOTGDevice::gated_registerFunction Register function AppleUSBMux Apr 8, 2012 10:08:21 PM - kernel [0] (Debug): AppleSynopsysOTGDevice::gated_registerFunction Register function IapOverUsbHid Apr 8, 2012 10:08:21 PM - kernel [0] (Debug): AppleSynopsysOTGDevice::gated_registerFunction Register function USBAudioStreaming Apr 8, 2012 10:08:21 PM - kernel [0] (Debug): AppleSynopsysOTGDevice::gated_registerFunction Register function AppleUSBEthernet Apr 8, 2012 10:08:21 PM - kernel [0] (Debug): AppleUSBEthernetDevice::start: Host MAC address = 02:(this Mac address does not physically exist) -edit Apr 8, 2012 10:08:21 PM - kernel [0] (Debug): AppleUSBEthernetDevice: Ethernet address  Apr 8, 2012 10:08:21 PM - kernel [0] (Debug): BTServer[66] Builtin profile: BlueTool (sandbox) Apr 8, 2012 10:08:21 PM - kernel [0] (Debug): BTServer[66] Builtin profile: BlueTool (sandbox) Apr 8, 2012 10:08:21 PM - hpfd [50] (Notice): firmware resource loaded { 'cdma' '    ' } Apr 8, 2012 10:08:21 PM - wifid [29] (Error): WiFi:[355640901.282776]: Could not read APPLE80211_IOC_SUPPORTED_CHANNELS err=82 Apr 8, 2012 10:08:21 PM - wifid [29] (Error): WiFi:[355640901.312786]: Client itunesstored is background application Apr 8, 2012 10:08:21 PM - timed [31] (Notice): (Note ) CoreTime: Want active time in 38.24hrs. Need active time in 121.57hrs. Apr 8, 2012 10:08:21 PM - SpringBoard [15] (Notice): MultitouchHID: detection mode: 255-0 (deferring until bootloaded) Apr 8, 2012 10:08:21 PM - CLTM [12] (Error): CLTM: resetting temps: now = 1333948101, last update = -2147483648 Apr 8, 2012 10:08:21 PM - locationd [28] (Error): WiFi:[355640901.852993]: WiFiManager now available Apr 8, 2012 10:08:21 PM - OTACrashCopier [62] (Notice): (Warn ) Failed to read attributes from '/var/mobile/Library/OTALogging/.last_successful_submission_marker' Apr 8, 2012 10:08:21 PM - hpfd [50] (Notice): firmware resource loaded { 'gsm ' 'nb  ' } Apr 8, 2012 10:08:21 PM - hpfd [50] (Notice): firmware resource loaded { 'gsm ' 'wb  ' } Apr 8, 2012 10:08:20 PM - kernel [0] (Debug): AppleBCMWLANCore::initFirmware(): successful initialization Apr 8, 2012 10:08:20 PM - kernel [0] (Debug): AppleBCMWLANCore:initFirmware(): 2496 PropTxStatus feature is not enabled for this platform  Apr 8, 2012 10:08:20 PM - kernel [0] (Debug): AppleBCMWLANCore::initDongle():: creating virtual interface with prefix = ap Apr 8, 2012 10:08:20 PM - kernel [0] (Debug): AppleBCMWLANCore::initDongle(): Core Driver Initialization Time 19.38798583 Apr 8, 2012 10:08:20 PM - kernel [0] (Debug): 000019.281423 hsic-baseband::safetyNet: port is not connected Apr 8, 2012 10:08:20 PM - lockdownd [23] (Notice): 3e828d98 _create_cesm_vault: try to create blob Apr 8, 2012 10:08:20 PM - lockdownd [23] (Notice): 3e828d98 load_activation_records: This is the default record Apr 8, 2012 10:08:20 PM - lockdownd [23] (Notice): 3e828d98 _create_cesm_vault: blob written Apr 8, 2012 10:08:20 PM - lockdownd [23] (Notice): 3e828d98 ping_configd: Not setting host name, it already has one: Pete's iPod  Apr 8, 2012 10:08:20 PM - lockdownd [23] (Notice): 3e828d98 lookup_baseband_info_new: radio not ready: kCTPostponementStatusNotReady Apr 8, 2012 10:08:20 PM - lockdownd [23] (Notice): 3e828d98 load_activation_records: This is the default record Apr 8, 2012 10:08:20 PM - SpringBoard [15] (Error): WiFi: Consulting "no-sdio-devices" property. Apr 8, 2012 10:08:20 PM - SpringBoard [15] (Error): WiFi: "no-sdio-devices" property not found. Apr 8, 2012 10:08:20 PM - lockdownd [23] (Notice): 3e828d98 determine_activation_state_new: Original act. state: Activated Apr 8, 2012 10:08:20 PM - lockdownd [23] (Notice): 3e828d98 determine_activation_state_new: radio not ready, don't change activation status, wait for notification, status: kCTPostponementStatusNotReady Apr 8, 2012 10:08:20 PM - lockdownd [23] (Notice): 3e828d98 determine_activation_state_new: Activation state now is Activated Apr 8, 2012 10:08:20 PM - SpringBoard [15] (Warning): lockdown says the device is: [Activated], state is 3 Apr 8, 2012 10:08:20 PM - SpringBoard [15] (Warning): lockdown says we've previously registered: [1], state is 1 Apr 8, 2012 10:08:20 PM - lockdownd [23] (Notice): 3e828d98 notification_worker: now listening for CT notifications Apr 8, 2012 10:08:20 PM - lockdownd [23] (Notice): 3e828d98 notification_worker: we've registered for notifications, now make sure we didn't miss one... Apr 8, 2012 10:08:20 PM - lockdownd [23] (Notice): 3e828d98 load_activation_records: This is the default record Apr 8, 2012 10:08:20 PM - lockdownd [23] (Notice): 3e828d98 determine_activation_state_new: Original act. state: Activated Apr 8, 2012 10:08:20 PM - lockdownd [23] (Notice): 3e828d98 determine_activation_state_new: radio not ready, don't change activation status, wait for notification, status: kCTPostponementStatusNotReady Apr 8, 2012 10:08:20 PM - lockdownd [23] (Notice): 3e828d98 determine_activation_state_new: Activation state now is Activated Apr 8, 2012 10:08:20 PM - SpringBoard [15] (Notice): Posting 'com.apple.iokit.hid.displayStatus' notifyState=1 Apr 8, 2012 10:08:20 PM - SpringBoard [15] (Notice): __IOHIDLoadBundles: Loaded 1 HID plugin Apr 8, 2012 10:08:19 PM - wifiFirmwareLoader [30] (Warning): [    18.778 sec] Downloaded firmware, 192512 bytes Apr 8, 2012 10:08:19 PM - kernel [0] (Debug): AppleKeyStore:cp_key_store_action(0) Apr 8, 2012 10:08:19 PM - kernel [0] (Debug): AppleMultitouchN1SPI: downloaded 128 bytes of prox calibration data ("built-in") Apr 8, 2012 10:08:19 PM - kernel [0] (Debug): AppleMultitouchN1SPI: downloaded 1024 bytes of calibration data ("built-in") Apr 8, 2012 10:08:19 PM - kernel [0] (Debug): AppleBCMWLANCore::attachBusGated(): Bus Driver Initialization Time 18.266927958 Apr 8, 2012 10:08:19 PM - kernel [0] (Debug): AppleBCMWLANCore:attachBusGated(): Starting with MAC Address: 00:f4:b9:2f:d9:8d Apr 8, 2012 10:08:19 PM - kernel [0] (Debug): AppleBCMWLANFirmwareManager::setNVRAMData(): received 778 bytes Apr 8, 2012 10:08:19 PM - kernel [0] (Debug): AppleBCMWLANCore: Ethernet address 00:f4:b9:2f:d9:8d Apr 8, 2012 10:08:19 PM - kernel [0] (Debug): Loading syscfg. Apr 8, 2012 10:08:19 PM - kernel [0] (Debug): AppleMultitouchN1SPI: downloaded 56264 bytes of firmware data ("0x0084.bin") in 152ms. Apr 8, 2012 10:08:19 PM - kernel [0] (Debug): AppleBCMWLANCore::apple80211_ioctl() Driver not yet initialized, cannot process ioctl Apr 8, 2012 10:08:19 PM - kernel [0] (Debug): AppleBCMWLANCore::apple80211_ioctl() Driver not yet initialized, cannot process ioctl Apr 8, 2012 10:08:19 PM - kernel [0] (Debug): AirPort: Enabled AppleBCMWLANCore (link 0, sys 0, user 0) Apr 8, 2012 10:08:19 PM - kernel [0] (Debug): AppleBCMWLANCore::apple80211_ioctl() Driver not yet initialized, cannot process ioctl Apr 8, 2012 10:08:19 PM - kernel [0] (Debug): AppleBCMWLANCore::apple80211_ioctl() Driver not yet initialized, cannot process ioctl Apr 8, 2012 10:08:19 PM - kernel [0] (Debug): AppleBCMWLANBusInterfaceHSIC::loadFirmware(): DL Ver: chip 0x4330, chiprev 0x4 Apr 8, 2012 10:08:19 PM - kernel [0] (Debug): BTServer[66] Builtin profile: BlueTool (sandbox) Apr 8, 2012 10:08:19 PM - kernel [0] (Debug): BCMWLAN Firmware Version: wl0: Dec 22 2011 19:03:58 version 5.95.45 Apr 8, 2012 10:08:19 PM - kernel [0] (Debug): AppleBCMWLANCore::initFirmware(): Firmware supports ap mode; enabling apsta feature (currently enabled) Apr 8, 2012 10:08:19 PM - kernel [0] (Debug): AppleBCMWLANCore::initFirmware(): country code set to XX Apr 8, 2012 10:08:19 PM - configd [14] (Notice): network configuration changed. Apr 8, 2012 10:08:19 PM - kernel [0] (Debug): AppleBCMWLANCmdManager::processResponse(): Firmware Error "BCOM Unsupported" on command "WLC_SET_VAR: bus:txglom" (263). Transaction ID 3, length 0 Apr 8, 2012 10:08:19 PM - kernel [0] (Debug): AppleBCMWLANCore::initFirmware(): Glomming not supported on this device: BCOM Unsupported Apr 8, 2012 10:08:19 PM - kernel [0] (Debug): AppleBCMWLANCore::initFirmware: apsta set to 1 Apr 8, 2012 10:08:19 PM - kernel [0] (Debug): AppleBCMWLANCore::handleEventPacket(): WLC_E_FIFO_CREDIT_MAP,length 6 [9 2 5 3 2] Apr 8, 2012 10:08:19 PM - iapd [49] (Error): Timed out trying to acquire capabilities data. Apr 8, 2012 10:08:19 PM - softwareupdated [37] (Notice): 3e828d98 : Cleaning up unused prepared updates Apr 8, 2012 10:08:19 PM - com.apple.misd [63] (Notice): allowing special port forwarding for test fixtures Apr 8, 2012 10:08:19 PM - hpfd [50] (Notice): resource request { 'N94 ', '    ' } Apr 8, 2012 10:08:19 PM - mstreamd [43] (Notice): (Note ) mstreamd: mstreamd starting up. Apr 8, 2012 10:08:18 PM - kernel [0] (Debug): launchd[44] Builtin profile: mediaserverd (sandbox) Apr 8, 2012 10:08:18 PM - kernel [0] (Debug): launchd[49] Builtin profile: iapd (sandbox) Apr 8, 2012 10:08:18 PM - kernel [0] (Debug): launchd[53] Builtin profile: dataaccessd (sandbox) Apr 8, 2012 10:08:18 PM - kernel [0] (Debug): launchd[60] Builtin profile: apsd (sandbox) Apr 8, 2012 10:08:18 PM - kernel [0] (Debug): launchd[66] Builtin profile: BTServer (sandbox) Apr 8, 2012 10:08:18 PM - mDNSResponder [46] (Error): mDNSResponder mDNSResponder-329.10 (Jan 15 2012 19:07:41) starting iOSVers 9 Apr 8, 2012 10:08:18 PM - mDNSResponder [46] (Error): Note: SetDomainSecrets: no keychain support Apr 8, 2012 10:08:18 PM - mDNSResponder [46] (Error): Note: Compiled without SnowLeopard Fine-Grained Power Management support Apr 8, 2012 10:08:18 PM - fseventsd [51] (Critical): event logs in /private/var/.fseventsd out of sync with volume.  destroying old logs. (10083 7 10090) Apr 8, 2012 10:08:18 PM - fseventsd [51] (Critical): log dir: /private/var/.fseventsd getting new uuid: 8778E61A-0283-4067-B7DF-F75D109983D1 Apr 8, 2012 10:08:18 PM - fseventsd [51] (Error): failed to make the directory /.fseventsd (30/Read-only file system) Apr 8, 2012 10:08:18 PM - fseventsd [51] (Critical): could not open < (No such file or directory) Apr 8, 2012 10:08:18 PM - fseventsd [51] (Critical): log dir: /tmp getting new uuid: 3919EB54-A54F-4289-864A-5158A25EF9DA Apr 8, 2012 10:08:18 PM - wifid [29] (Error): WiFi:[355640898.328610]: WiFi Preferences is up to date Apr 8, 2012 10:08:18 PM - mDNSResponder [46] (Error): D2DInitialize succeeded Apr 8, 2012 10:08:18 PM - fairplayd.N94 [52] (Notice): Vroum Apr 8, 2012 10:08:18 PM - wifid [29] (Error): WiFi:[355640898.537219]: WiFiManager starting, version: WiFiManager-260.9 Feb  4 2012 13:25:16 Apr 8, 2012 10:08:18 PM - configd [14] (Error): WiFi:[355640898.539342]: WiFiManager now available Apr 8, 2012 10:08:18 PM - keybagd [39] (Error): 3e828d98 main: System Keybag loaded Apr 8, 2012 10:08:18 PM - wifiFirmwareLoader [30] (Warning): [    18.268 sec] Found AppleBCMWLANBusInterface; downloading FW.. Apr 8, 2012 10:08:18 PM - wifiFirmwareLoader [30] (Warning): Loading "/usr/share/firmware/wifi/4330b2/bcm94330OlympicUNO3.txt", file size = 778 bytes Apr 8, 2012 10:08:18 PM - wifiFirmwareLoader [30] (Warning): [    18.276 sec] Sending NVRAM, 778 bytes Apr 8, 2012 10:08:18 PM - wifiFirmwareLoader [30] (Warning): Loading "/usr/share/firmware/wifi/4330b2/n94.trx", file size = 192512 bytes Apr 8, 2012 10:08:18 PM - wifiFirmwareLoader [30] (Warning): [    18.300 sec] Sending firmware, 192512 bytes Apr 8, 2012 10:08:18 PM - lockdownd [23] (Error): libMobileGestalt copyEthernetMacAddress: got 00:f4:b9:2f:d9:8f from syscfg Apr 8, 2012 10:08:18 PM - mediaserverd [44] (Notice): 2012-04-08 10:08:18.817015 PM [AirTunes] HAL plugin started Apr 8, 2012 10:08:18 PM - lockdownd [23] (Error): libMobileGestalt createCFStringWithCFData: Cannot convert NULL data to string Apr 8, 2012 10:08:18 PM - lockdownd [23] (Error): libMobileGestalt copyBasebandBoardSnum: Could not convert baseband board snum data to string Apr 8, 2012 10:08:18 PM - lockdownd [23] (Error): libMobileGestalt createCFStringWithCFData: Cannot convert NULL data to string Apr 8, 2012 10:08:18 PM - lockdownd [23] (Error): libMobileGestalt copyWirelessBoardSnum: Could not convert wireless board snum data to string Apr 8, 2012 10:08:18 PM - lockdownd [23] (Notice): 3e828d98 lockstart_local: Build= 9B179 Apr 8, 2012 10:08:18 PM - lockdownd [23] (Notice): 3e828d98 _load_product_type: using Raptor Certs Apr 8, 2012 10:08:17 PM - wifiFirmwareLoader [30] (Warning): [    17.590 sec] wlan AppleUSBHSICDevice found Apr 8, 2012 10:08:17 PM - wifiFirmwareLoader [30] (Warning): [    17.590 sec] WLAN Enumeration attempt 0 / 6: Apr 8, 2012 10:08:17 PM - wifiFirmwareLoader [30] (Warning): [    17.591 sec] Waiting for AppleBCMWLANBusInterface to enumerate... Apr 8, 2012 10:08:16 PM - CommCenter [18] (Notice): MMS thread running Apr 8, 2012 10:08:16 PM - CommCenter [18] (Notice): Communications Center Started. Apr 8, 2012 10:08:16 PM - CommCenter [18] (Notice): STOP LOCATION UPDATE Apr 8, 2012 10:08:16 PM - locationd [28] (Error): WiFi:[355640896.704327]: bootstrap_look_up of WiFiManager server failed Apr 8, 2012 10:08:16 PM - locationd [28] (Error): WiFi:[355640896.705542]: bootstrap_look_up of WiFiManager server failed Apr 8, 2012 10:08:16 PM - locationd [28] (Error): WiFi:[355640896.706648]: bootstrap_look_up of WiFiManager server failed Apr 8, 2012 10:08:16 PM - locationd [28] (Error): WiFi:[355640896.707418]: bootstrap_look_up of WiFiManager server failed Apr 8, 2012 10:08:15 PM - kernel [0] (Debug): bool AppleRGBOUT::power_down_hardware(), RGB_CTRL (0x00000000) clk_down_ready is not set after 60 msecs Apr 8, 2012 10:08:14 PM - lockdownd [23] (Notice): 3e828d98 main: Starting Up Apr 8, 2012 10:08:14 PM - kernel [0] (Debug): IOReturn AppleRGBOUT::set_display_device_gated(uint32_t), 1 Apr 8, 2012 10:08:14 PM - kernel [0] (Debug): virtual void AppleRGBOUT::do_power_state_change(): fSoft: 1 fHard: 1 swapBusy: 1  fController: 0 - 1 Apr 8, 2012 10:08:14 PM - kernel [0] (Debug): bool AppleRGBOUT::power_up_hardware() Apr 8, 2012 10:08:14 PM - kernel [0] (Debug): set_crc_notification_state 0 Apr 8, 2012 10:08:14 PM - kernel [0] (Debug): virtual void AppleRGBOUT::do_power_state_change(): fSoft: 0 fHard: 1 swapBusy: 0  fController: 1 - 0 Apr 8, 2012 10:08:14 PM - kernel [0] (Debug): bool AppleRGBOUT::power_down_hardware() Apr 8, 2012 10:08:14 PM - kernel [0] (Debug): IOReturn IOMobileFramebufferUserClient::set_hotplug_notify(void *, void *) 0x314b3f0d 0xe215600 Apr 8, 2012 10:08:14 PM - kernel [0] (Debug): IOReturn IOMobileFramebufferUserClient::set_hotplug_notify(void *, void *) 0x849d5000 0x876e8828 0x314b3f0d 0xe215600 Apr 8, 2012 10:08:14 PM - kernel [0] (Debug): bool AppleRGBOUT::power_down_hardware(), clock down RGBOUT Apr 8, 2012 10:08:14 PM - SpringBoard [15] (Notice): IOMobileFrameBufferGetMirroringCapability returning -536870201 via kIOMFBConnectMethod_GetMirroringCapability  Apr 8, 2012 10:08:14 PM - backupd [21] (Warning): INFO: Account changed (enabled=0, accountID=159665024) Apr 8, 2012 10:08:13 PM - kernel [0] (Debug): launchd[17] Builtin profile: ptpd (sandbox) Apr 8, 2012 10:08:13 PM - UserEventAgent [12] (Warning): Factory called Apr 8, 2012 10:08:13 PM - configd [14] (Error): WiFi:[355640893.157493]: bootstrap_look_up of WiFiManager server failed Apr 8, 2012 10:08:13 PM - configd [14] (Error): WiFi:[355640893.158197]: bootstrap_look_up of WiFiManager server failed Apr 8, 2012 10:08:13 PM - configd [14] (Error): WiFi:[355640893.158878]: bootstrap_look_up of WiFiManager server failed Apr 8, 2012 10:08:13 PM - UserEventAgent [12] (Notice): (Note ) PIH: MCUEAPlugin initialized. Apr 8, 2012 10:08:13 PM - UserEventAgent [12] (Error): Querying interface Apr 8, 2012 10:08:13 PM - configd [14] (Error): ioctl(SIOCGIFCAP) failed: Device not configured Apr 8, 2012 10:08:13 PM - configd [14] (Error): ioctl(SIOCGIFCAP) failed: Device not configured Apr 8, 2012 10:08:13 PM - configd [14] (Notice): setting hostname to "Petes-iPod" Apr 8, 2012 10:08:13 PM - configd [14] (Notice): network configuration changed. Apr 8, 2012 10:08:13 PM - UserEventAgent [12] (Warning): TRACE: sending {    command = kMBMessageAccountChanged; } Apr 8, 2012 10:08:13 PM - profiled [20] (Notice): (Note ) profiled: Service starting... Apr 8, 2012 10:08:13 PM - profiled [20] (Notice): (Note ) profiled: Performing boot time checks. Apr 8, 2012 10:08:13 PM - profiled [20] (Notice): (Note ) MC: Checking for MDM installation... Apr 8, 2012 10:08:13 PM - profiled [20] (Notice): (Note ) MC: ...finished checking for MDM installation. Apr 8, 2012 10:08:13 PM - profiled [20] (Notice): (Note ) profiled: Checking for new carrier profile... Apr 8, 2012 10:08:13 PM - profiled [20] (Notice): (Note ) profiled: Installing new carrier profile. Apr 8, 2012 10:08:13 PM - profiled [20] (Notice): (Note ) profiled: Carrier profile has already been installed. Apr 8, 2012 10:08:12 PM - com.apple.launchd [1] (Warning): (com.apple.ptpd) The exception server is already claimed! Apr 8, 2012 10:08:12 PM - CLTM [12] (Notice): CLTM: mitigation behavior enabled Apr 8, 2012 10:08:12 PM - CLTM [12] (Notice): CLTM: camera equations enabled Apr 8, 2012 10:08:12 PM - CLTM [12] (Notice): CLTM: thermal monitoring enabled Apr 8, 2012 10:08:12 PM - CLTM [12] (Notice): CLTM: registered for wake notification Apr 8, 2012 10:08:12 PM - CLTM [12] (Notice): CLTM: set decay on sensor 0 to 16384 Apr 8, 2012 10:08:12 PM - CLTM [12] (Notice): CLTM: set decay on sensor 1 to 546 Apr 8, 2012 10:08:12 PM - CLTM [12] (Notice): CLTM: set decay on sensor 2 to 5461 Apr 8, 2012 10:08:12 PM - CLTM [12] (Notice): CLTM: set decay on sensor 3 to 6553 Apr 8, 2012 10:08:12 PM - CLTM [12] (Notice): CLTM: set decay on sensor 4 to 5461 Apr 8, 2012 10:08:12 PM - CLTM [12] (Notice): CLTM: set decay on sensor 5 to 5461 Apr 8, 2012 10:08:12 PM - CLTM [12] (Notice): CLTM: set decay on sensor 6 to 16384 Apr 8, 2012 10:08:12 PM - CLTM [12] (Notice): CLTM: set decay on sensor 9 to 5461 Apr 8, 2012 10:08:12 PM - CLTM [12] (Notice): CLTM: set decay on sensor 10 to 5461 Apr 8, 2012 10:08:12 PM - CLTM [12] (Notice): CLTM: Set AppleARMPerformanceControllerDVDFactor1 dithering level to 101% Apr 8, 2012 10:08:12 PM - CLTM [12] (Notice): CLTM: Set AppleARMPerformanceControllerDVDFactor0 dithering level to 100% Apr 8, 2012 10:08:12 PM - CLTM [12] (Notice): CLTM: Set charge rate index to 0 Apr 8, 2012 10:08:12 PM - CLTM [12] (Notice): CLTM: HID not ready cannot set BL Apr 8, 2012 10:08:12 PM - CLTM [12] (Notice): CLTM: setting thermal status level to 0 (0) [-32768, -32768, -32768, -32768, -32768, -32768, -32768, -32768, -32768, -32768, -32768, -32768, -32768, -32768, -32768] Apr 8, 2012 10:08:12 PM - CLTM [12] (Notice): CLTM: set allowable transmit power limit to 24.000 dBm [-32768, -32768, -32768, -32768, -32768, -32768, -32768, -32768, -32768, -32768, -32768, -32768, -32768, -32768, -32768] Apr 8, 2012 10:08:12 PM - CLTM [12] (Error): CLTM: Could not close relay file Apr 8, 2012 10:08:12 PM - CLTM [12] (Notice): CLTM: thermtgraphrelay is not present

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• WPF DataGrid binding to UserControl

  - by Trindaz

  I have a DataGrid with one column using a UserControl via a styled DataGridTemplateColumn. I can't seem to get the UserControl to 'see' the object that is in it's containing DataGridCell though. What kind of bindings can I create on the TextBox in my UserControl so that it can look up and see that object?! My UserControl and TemplateColumn Style are defined as: <Window.Resources> <local:UCTest x:Key="UCTest" /> <Style x:Key="TestStyle" TargetType="{x:Type WpfToolkit:DataGridCell}"> <Style.Setters> <Setter Property="Template"> <Setter.Value> <ControlTemplate TargetType="{x:Type WpfToolkit:DataGridCell}"> <Grid Background="{Binding RelativeSource={RelativeSource TemplatedParent}, Converter={StaticResource drc}, Path=DataContext}"> <Grid.ColumnDefinitions> <ColumnDefinition/> <ColumnDefinition/> </Grid.ColumnDefinitions> <local:UCTest /> </Grid> </ControlTemplate> </Setter.Value> </Setter> </Style.Setters> </Style> </Window.Resources> and my sample DataGrid is defined as: <WpfToolkit:DataGrid Name="dgSampleData" ItemsSource="{Binding}" AutoGenerateColumns="True" Margin="0,75,0,0"> <WpfToolkit:DataGrid.Columns> <WpfToolkit:DataGridTemplateColumn Header="Col2" CellStyle="{StaticResource TestStyle}" /> </WpfToolkit:DataGrid.Columns> </WpfToolkit:DataGrid> and my User Control is defined in a separate file as: <UserControl x:Class="UCTest" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" xmlns:local="clr-namespace:WpfApplication1" xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml" Width="104" Height="51"> <UserControl.Resources> <local:DataRowConverter x:Key="drc" /> </UserControl.Resources> <Grid> <TextBox Margin="12,12,-155,16" Name="TextBox1" Text="" /> </Grid> EDIT: My implementation of TestClass, which has the Test Property, which I want UCTest.TextBox1 to bind do: Public Class TestClass Private _Test As String = "Hello World Property!" Public Property Test() As String Get Return _Test End Get Set(ByVal value As String) _Test = value End Set End Property End Class Thanks in advance!

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