Anton Perez

Category: Resource

  • Seven interesting computer facts

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    Here are seven “did you know” interesting computer facts (info consolidated from the CIO website): 1. What’s the closest computer to the North Pole? National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory Webcam #1, A NetCam XL, made by StarDot Technologies. 2. What’s the farthest computer from Earth? NASA’s Voyager satellite computes at the edge…

  • CLR has been unable to transition from COM context for 60 seconds

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    I was debugging an inherited multi-project WinForms application (from my co-worker and friend, Genaro Quismorio) today and came across this error twice (below), which was frustrating, annoying and very unproductive. This error occurred while stepping through a breakpoint [Debug.Break] in my WinForms code while looking for a bug. One fix I found on Google was…

  • iGoogle vs. My Yahoo!

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    I’ve had my Yahoo! screen name since the mid 90s and my Google screen name since its beta days. Both of of them allow you to customize your own, personalized home page Web 2.0 style. That is AJAX technologies and support for gadgets/widgets is available and extensively used for a more superior, less lag time…

  • Learning Python, Linux, Java, Ruby and more with Tutorial Videos

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    I’m kicking off my Python journey once more, hopefully, now with depth.  And came across this website – thanks to Anton Sipos – called ShowMeDo, that I believe can enhance your learning through videos. Take it easy.

  • Submitting bugs through BugzScout

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    I was tasked to develop a proxy-like web interface wherein our company’s Marketing group didn’t have to go to Fogbugz directly.  To facilitate this, I wrote an ASP.NET Web Application that submits/POSTs to Fogbugz’s supplied ScoutSubmit.asp. FogBugz is a complete project management system for software teams. Designed by Joel Spolsky of Joel on Software fame,…

  • Unlocking the IPhone

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    9/6/07 1:34 PM Update: For software-only unlocking, all features will be available except for Visual Voice mail (which is an exclusive AT&T feature). You’ve probably read or heard about the race [of many hackers] to unlock the IPhone…well, interestingly a 17-year old named George Holtz of Glen Rock, NJ confirmed that he did unlock it.…