After being uber excited to get a brand new Nexus 7 for Christmas, I quickly realized that there was a problem with my new gadget! I found that no matter what I did the battery showed 0%, even after spending several hours on the factory charger. After a couple hours on El Goog finding some…… Continue reading Fixing a power problem
Year: 2012
Included Bugs
I spent the better part of a day and a half beating the keyboard with my head over a very frustrating problem: “WTF! Where’s that cookie I set?!” in a PHP project that I was working on. See, the problem came from abstracting all the cookie related functions to a separate PHP file. Easier to…… Continue reading Included Bugs
Having an “wow” moment
I was watching “Gremlins 2: The New Batch” with my kids today, and it is really neat to see my kids enjoy a movie that I enjoyed years ago. Without the CGI and special effects that we have come to enjoy and are accustomed to in modern movies, its refreshing to see some creativity of…… Continue reading Having an “wow” moment
Cleaning a Web Service. . .
So, after spending a fair amount of time building and debugging/testing a web service that I have built for a client I have come to the realization that not only is NuSOAP poorly supported, it is a great concept that has failed at a complete execution. I think the real problem is that one cannot Google…… Continue reading Cleaning a Web Service. . .
The joys of XML . . . blech!
I normally love working with XML. XML is simple, clean, extremely flexible, and is generally fun to me, but trying to coordinate the SOAP messages between a PHP NuSOAP server and a client in a VB.NET desktop application has been one headache after another! From poor documentation for NuSOAP, to trouble with complex return types,…… Continue reading The joys of XML . . . blech!
I love a sense of humor
Ya know, I just noticed that over at Dream In Code that new members get the moniker “New D.I.C. Head”. Ha, I love it!
NuSOAP Sucks
I have come to the conclusion that NuSOAP is a rather good, but poorly documented SOAP solution (hehe). If I ever get the time I might collect my (somewhat extensive) collection of help posts, articles, DQs, and tutorials that have helped me through the process of building a web service that uses NuSOAP (something that…… Continue reading NuSOAP Sucks