Leese Internet Technology

Well, tonight we are submitting our first iPhone App. Its actually not the first one we have been involved with – we have tested several and even had one developed for one of our companies. But tonight, we are submitting our own creation and boy is it exciting. It might be a little late for it considering how heavily we are involved in programming but that is okay. There are no time constraints and we’ll just keep doing the best we can. I expect about 3 cycles of corrections until we get this right. And that will be okay – just hoping the iterations are slightly quicker than they were a year ago.

I have a couple laptops sitting around but I just took ownership of a new SSD drive and even though it is only 32 Gigs, i think it is really going to serve me well. The other bad thing is it is probably not as fast – but what IS good, I am going to try to make it so that it keeps the whole laptop cool enough to stay running. Yeah, the silly thing keeps cutting off after about 10 minutes. I think it is related to the super huge, high speed, power sucking, hot HD that I put in there. Its been doomed from the start. We’ll see – if it doesn’t solve it, I’ll give up on it – or maybe try pulling out the extra memory. Whatever, its time for an upgrade – but before we invest in that depreciating asset, we’ll give this a shot.

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.