Leese Internet Technology

New services for LeeseIT! We have been taking classes in all these Microsoft products. Not only that, but we have been working on doing integrations with all of them! Including web services and data sharing. Anyone can do interfaces, but getting your inventory data to properly couple with your accounting and lead generating software – now that is the challenge! And what about your support staff who needs to effectively run your business and provide numbers and stats for your management team? We are here to serve you all – because with these tools, we are convinced that we can make a solution work for you! Email us for pricing and more information about how we can help.

It is an error that can drive you MAD!

Recently, working with a client we had to call Microsoft in order to find out what this error message meant, and what the solution might be. I’m happy to say, it had nothing to do with the Operating System, the Encryption Mode or any kind of support. It turned out to be a SECURITY issue.

Here are the parameters: (we are doing some things a little weird, or at least, very niche so this won’t apply to everyone)

Running SqlCE 3.5 on a Windows 7 machine.
Running IIS 7 to serve pages on “localhost” from a website that resides locally, and a db that resides on the local machine.

Everyone knows that if you are going to access a SQL CE database from within a webpage, you need to call the:

method.

But our problem was that we could open the database from within an application yet, not from within the webpage. We had identical connection strings so that couldn’t be it.

What was the solution? Easy. The application pool (“DefaultAppPool” for us) had an identity property set differently on the Windows 7 box than it did by default on the Vista box. We had to change it from ApplicationPoolIdentity to NetworkService and viola – success.

It was like magic. Hopefully this entry helps you solve this problem if you suddenly find your self with Windows 7 machines out in the field that used to be able to access their Sql Ce databases and suddenly are not able to access it because of handled (or in our case, unhandled) exceptions.

We are entering the iPhone App development arena. Pretty cool stuff. What is especially fun is watching the iPhone App development class in iTunes University on my iPhone. Unofficially, our team is attending Stanford. Cool! Looking forward to submitting an app by the end of January. We’ll keep you posted on that effort.

There have been so many websites that we have been working on lately that it seems we haven’t had any time to write or update our own. Here are some client websites we have had the privilege to help out recently:

• destincharitywineauction.org
• marriagevine.com
• shirtandsimple.com
• condosaletrends.com
• awardconcepts.net
• sendaduck.com
• elarcoiris.net
• yxta.net
• nicevillechamber.org

It has been a great summer – thanks to all who have helped support these efforts.

If you are building a Firefox Addon using the Extension Builder, and it bombs out in the middle (for any reason) make sure you delete the “build” directory. Otherwise you will constantly hit an exception that keeps future builds from building correctly.

Well, as a geo nerd – I was excited when I heard about this. I was tempted to get it into all my websites that have any mapping capability at all but recently, I have been disappointed.

I tried installing this on a webpage that I can hit from my iPhone and from Firefox 3.5 easily (and also from many locations) to see it in action. What did I find?

location = undefined

Seems like no matter where I am, all I get is an undefined location. Bummer. Because I am in a heavily populated metropolitan area, where geolocating should be easy – but alas – if it doesn’t work for me and my testing, how will I ever get a client to buy into it. I’ll be traveling over the next few weeks and hopefully will see if this thing can work. For now – I am not convinced.

In this book, The Millionaire Next Door the Surprising Secrets of America’s Wealthy there is a formula for determining whether someone is exceptionally productive in their wealth building.  Take your age and multiply it by your income divided by 10.  If you have more than this amount of money in assets you are doing well.

This is definitely hard to apply.  It involves saving, budgeting and being thrifty.  I can tell you, it isn’t easy.  Although, if it was easy – everyone would do it.

I just got around to reading a SitePoint article (http://www.sitepoint.com/newsletter/viewissue.php?id=2&issue=441) and I couldn’t agree more. Software, and in particular websites, are absolutely centered around customer service. If isn’t serving someone or some purpose, then it is worthless. And so if your organization doesn’t serve someone or some purpose it is also worthless. So if you want your business to have value (and simultaneously grow it) provide stellar customer service.