So today, B&N was to start shipping the nook’s to all those who had preordered early enough for a November 30th ship date. Unfortunately, they have missed that mark, or at least appear to have missed it. As an email suggests, the ship date is delayed for an unknown reason. But it does not actually say it is delayed. It’s like they know it will cause a back lash of complaints, and didn’t want to speak those words!

They did offer us a $10 gift card and free upgrade to overnight shipping, which as a member you already got expedited air service. But these seem like a slap in the face. They missed the mark, won’t admit or explain why, and send us this email that hints at a delay without saying it is delayed.

But none the less, I still sit with my brochure and camera ready to take pictures of it. Assuming it gets here before I leave on my next work trip.

Time to go complete your Dell Windows 7 Free Upgrade order! Since Windows 7 has officially launched, the Dell upgrade site is most likely inundated with requests. I managed to complete my order and receive a confirmation email of the order. But it took a good 15 minutes to make it through the four page site.

So to add to the misery of Dell, EVERYONE needs to go order their Windows 7 kit. If you registered your system that came with a free upgrade, now is the time, go go go!

Barnes and Noble have announced their entry into the digital reader market with the nook.

This device is also the first to be released using Google’s Android as the OS. Which also brings to question how long it will take for someone to modify the unit. Or will someone even need to? From the sounds of it, B&N seems a little open to the idea of Android Apps being available for use. Regardless however, this unit shows great potential and serious threat to the Kindle. The specs for the unit are impressive, as well as a few key notes. One is that the unit allows you to lend your books to other users of the software or devices. Two, you can sync between the nook or any other device running the B&N eReader. And finally, the nook can tap into the Google Books project, for access to over 500,000 free books and other publications.

Now if you were sitting around yesterday for the revealing of this unit, you may have noticed that it was available for preorder online before they announced it. Probably a mistake, but that didn’t stop me from placing my preorder and then watching the site get pulled until they were ready ready.

Head on over and view the system specs, and place your preorder if you feel so inclined. Or if you wish to wait for some of the other devices coming, you can do that as well.

Technical Specifications

www.Nook.com

I didn’t even notice this one happen, and only caught it because I was floating around the Google Apps Administration site. Apparently Google has updated the mobile sync to support not only calendar and contacts as it has been for a while, but also email. This was a big hurdle for a while as you would need one sync setup using exchange active sync, and another IMAP setup for your email. The email would not always come to your phone on time and you would have to manually update it.

Well that is no longer the case, as you can now run all services through the one sync setup. Another note is they have enabled you to modify your calendar sync, follow these directions from your iPhone.

Google Sync allows you to choose up to 25 Calendars with the Calendar app on your iPhone (on iPhone OS 3.0)

To select which calendars to sync to your iPhone, follow the steps below:

1. Open the Safari browser on your phone and go to http://m.google.com/sync.
2. Sign in with your account and select your phone from the list of devices you’ve set up for Google Sync.
3. Bookmark this page so you can return to it easily.

Google Apps alternate instructions:

1. Open the Safari browser on your phone and go to http://m.google.com
2. Click on Google Apps user? at the bottom of the screen.
3. Enter your domain name (e.g., YourDomain.com).
4. Click the Sync icon in your domain area (this section has a green background).
5. Sign in if required.
6. Select your device to configure Calendars.

As of today, my little program SharePoint® Data Dump v1.1.1.0 has been posted for public download.

It allows mass export of files from binary in the Doc table of SharePoint® to their original format in a directory you choose.
You can run it against a live or restored SharePoint® database.

There are limitations, and bugs, but in time those will become far and few. It may not work on all versions of SharePoint®,
but I will be updating it to test which version and adjust as needed.

Enjoy!

SDD Download

Xceed has released a new update for their Datagrid for WPF product.  3.2 was released back in June,
and here comes 3.5. What’s new in this release?

Xceed DataGrid for WPF Professional Edition v3.5 features a beautiful new view called Tableflow™.
This view offers fast animated smooth scrolling with inertia for impressive UI performance (works with
data virtualization), sticky group headers and master-detail master row and headers, full-column
animated drag and drop reordering. Also new is filtering and status indicator glyphs for datagrids
bound to a virtualizing collection.

So in addition to the new features, below is a list of other fixes.

• The DataGridVirtualizingQueryableCollectionView now fully supports the FilterRow and the automatic filtering features.
• Added a ConnectionStateGlyph property that shows asynchronous activity when fetching virtualized data.
• Added a ConnectionState and ConnectionError property on the DataGridControl and DataGridVirtualizingCollectionViewBase.
• Added an IsConnectionStateGlyphEnabled property on UIViewBase.
• Corrected an issue where FilterCriterion were lost when the data source was changed.
• DataGridUnboundItemProperty corresponding cells are now refreshed when the DataGridUpdateSourceTrigger is set to CellContentChanged.
• Corrected an issue where a LicenseException was thrown when after a DataGridItemProperty was cloned.
• Corrected an issue where not all appropriate property values were cloned when a DataGridItemProperty was cloned.
• Corrected an issue where the first row inserted into an empty list remained in an invalid state.
• Filters are now kept when collapsing the detail’s parent row.
• FilterRow now supports filtering by empty strings.
• Removed a reference to System.Data.Linq that prevented the DataGridControl from being distributed on .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 Client Profile.
• Corrected an issue where the edit state was not correctly restored after a replace of the item being edited.
• When AllowDrag is set to true and a row drag is initiated, the DataGridVirtualizingCollectionView and DataGridVirtualizingQueryableCollectionView no longer query unnecessary data.
• Canceling a print and re-printing no longer results in an unopenable file or print-out.
• Grouping an empty DataGridControl bound to a DataGridVirtualizingCollectionView no longer throws an exception.
• When a Row’s MinHeight and MaxHeight are defined as the same value, the mouse cursor no longer shows the resize glyph since resizing is impossible.
• Corrected an issue that occurred when a cell’s EditTemplate lost focus when setting e.Cancel to true in the cell’s EditEnding event.
• Opening the DataGridControl in Blend 3 no longer results in an exception being thrown.
• Setting a ColumnManagerCell’s HorizontalContentAlignment and VerticalContentAlignment through a style now has an effect on the Printed DataGridControl.
• The remove filter button is now displayed in a detail grid’s filter row.
• Corrected an issue where the DataGridCollectionView was not accepting items whose types derived from the item type specified at construction.
• The FilterRow can now be navigated to using the Keyboard while using CardView.
• Removes binding warnings from the output window when bound to items implementing IDataErrorInfo and using UnboundDataGridItemProperties.
• Corrected an issue that occurred when toggling the sort direction of a column while multiple columns were sorted

Head on over and snag it now!

Personally, I will be interested to see the new view and will post my experiences with it shortly.

I have finished testing The Neat Companies NeatWorks 4.6.2_152 product
on a fresh install of Windows 7 Ultimate (32bit and 64bit).
Through this process I have found that during install if you fail to run the
initial install as an administrator, you will need to perform an additional
step to get the database running correctly. The install will complete
successfully, or at least appear that way even if you don’t do the install
as an administrator.

Now first of all, by run it as administrator I am an administrator, but
this is specifically if you have UAC still turned on. Since under UAC even
an administrator is not an administrator without saying you want to be.

So to run the initial install as an administrator, you simiply right click
on the file and click ‘Run as Administrator’. That’s it!
Now if you forget that step or don’t even think about it, you will make it
through but then receive errors along the lines of:

In this case you will need to do one item over again, or you could uninstall and reinstall, but that will take
a lot longer. So lets begin!

1. Open the path: %Program Files%\Common Files\The Neat Company\Setup\
2. Right click on ‘Neat Database Setup.exe’ and select ‘Run as Administrator’
   
3. Complete the following install as normal, and upon completion your database will now
   be working and you can launch NeatWorks without an issue.

If you have for some reason not done a fresh install of Windows 7, but instead have
performed an upgrade… the one issue I have noticed is a delay in starting the
‘Database Controller Service’ before the SQL instance is started. Other than running
services.msc, you can also check in one location for NeatWorks status. You may open the
‘Support Center’ by Expanding Networks and Support Tools, then clicking on “Neat Support Center” in your start menu.

This program will let you view log files from the application, as well as submit support
information to The Neat Company. But one tab in particular is a simple view of your NeatWorks
related services. A note about this screen, on Windows 7 it will still say the OS is Vista.
But the version number will be correct, it is simply the application does not know what Windows 7 is.

From their newsletter:

Everyone join the band that has access, and together we can bring down the Interweb!

Ok, so Microsoft has released the latest version of Windows on MSDN for the world to have… Windows 7.

The long awaited OS has finally arrived for us true believers…. scratch that… for us nerds!

Those that have MSDN access, go get it!

Those that have a valid software assurance agreement, you gets to wait until tomorrow.

Everyone else? See you October 22nd at your local best buy!

Bink.nu is reporting that Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2 have gone RTM. Keep an eye out for them to post on MSDN shortly.

So I took a quick break from all the installer creations I’ve been doing lately to enjoy some work on an old project… DCTracker!

I know, it is the neverending project, but when you get little time to work on anything else… blah blah. Ok, so here’s the deal, I wanted to take my Child Attendance program from this:

To this:

Well wouldn’t you know it, that is just super simple in Xceed DataGrid. (www.xceed.com)

In the XAML of my window, I clicked “Show Configuration Window” on my datagrid.

Then selected cardview:

After selecting cardview and the theme I desired, I switched to the columns tab and setup my fields.

The “Field Name” corresponds to the field name in my dataset I will be passing, whereas “Title” is shown on the card.
Next, we configure the data source in our code:

1. dataGridControlChildDisplay.ItemsSource = childListView;

chidlListView is an Observable Collection of my class:

public class attendanceListView
{
 public bool isSelected { get; set; }
 public string firstName { get; set; }
 public string lastName { get; set; }
 public string status { get; set; }
 public string oldstatus { get; set; }
 public string newstatus { get; set; }
 public string childID { get; set; }
 public string parentPIN { get; set; }
}

Insert some data into my collection, and zip zam wazzle, I gots me some cards!

Of course I don’t poof my data out of thin air, I actually pull it from the database and stick it into this collection.  But that’s another story,
less wazzle’s, but still a lot of zip’s.

I registered for the free Xceed DataGrid for WPF. There’s only 25 days left to do it. http://xceed.com/freegrid

Xceed DataGrid is an awesome grid component for WPF. I’ve tinkered with it for a while and love it. In fact it is in use in one of my projects called DCTracker.

Hurry and be a good developer… or crazy pack rat and go register!

Sun’s virtual machine application that directly competes with VMWare Workstation has been released for free. This app is cross platform, and open source. What more could you ask for? And did I mention it is from Sun? So you will get a tan as well!

Follow this link to get more information, or download now.

I have uploaded the alpha version of a batch audio splitter I’m working on. Nothing too fancy about it, and it does have bugs right now but it’s purpose is quite simple. Take in a directory containing audio files (right now only supporting .WAV files) and split them to multiple files based on the track markers embedded in the file. Each file created will have the first section of a file name combined with the track name as it’s file name.
(Example: testwave – 1.wav can become testwave trackname.wav)

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Use at your own risk.

Released to the masses, Microsoft opens the flood gates to their latest web browser.

To get your own copy, head over to Microsofts IE site and download it.

This release is touted to be their most stable, safest, standards compatible version to date.
You may also read their performance document at the following site.