A colleague noticed earlier on today, that on the Chrome browser they were using, the search operator menu items of a jqGrid on a web app’s UI were jumping around on hover, making it practically impossible to select one.    Seems this had started occurring on that ASP.net MVC web application, after a recent update […]

Just fixed a nasty bug in ClipFlair Studio (http://studio.clipflair.net), where one couldn’t click hyperlinks in the Text component when set at ReadOnly mode. In that mode hyperlinks should open up new web pages (in Edit mode you can edit/remove them only of course), but instead when clicked they would show something like a focus rectangle ...

I have submitted the following issue to Microsoft Connect (product feedback center): http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/809084/point-class-issue-with-two-way-databinding Point class issue with two-way databinding   In Silverlight, when using databinding code like the following: <StackPanel ...

Recently, to save myself sometime after having renamed some interfaces/classes in the ClipFlair project sourcecode, I right-clicked one of the class diagrams (.cd files) in it at Visual Studio’s “Solution Navigator” (this is an enhanced Solution Explorer addon) and using “Open With…” I opened up the diagrams with the XML editor to do a rename-all ...

Trying to make CaptionsGridWindow of ClipFlair serve captions editing on-the-fly to SMF (Silverlight Media Framework [now called MMPPF]) player component, I had a real hard time, plagued by a bug at TimedTextElementStyle. It seems to be setting default FontSize for captions using a “Cell” unit instead of using a “Pixel” unit. Currently SMF only ...

Πρόσφατα το Taxisnet έδωσε άτυπη παράταση χρήσης της εφαρμογής περιουσιολογίου για τον έλεγχο και διόρθωση (χωρίς πρόστιμο) των παλαιότερων δηλώσεων E9 (μεταβολών περιουσιακής κατάστασης) για τις ημερομηνίες 1-1-2009, 1-1-2010, 1-1-2011, που κανονικά έληγε τέλος Μαρτίου. Προφανώς όλοι μπήκαν τελευταία στιγμή στο σύστημα και “γονάτισε”. Τα μηνύματα ...

Hello Microsoft, can you count? In the image above you can see the Windows 7 taskbar showing THREE (merged) icons/instances of Internet Explorer, although I only have ONE windows open (they seem to use multiple processes internally when you have many tabs, but why should the user care?). More importantly, in the popup shown when [...]

Ahem, Microsoft Connect says I can’t Connect (sign-in) to it for the moment. The Microsoft bug reporting site probably came upon some bug itself? #LOL Tagged: Bugs, Feedback, Microsoft

A friend just called me this morning that their notebook with Windows 7 Starter started today showing the same icon for every Start menu item and for shortcuts (e.g. on the desktop) and when trying to open them the same program would always try to open them. Seems he had right-clicked and done “Open With…” [...]

Πήγα και εγώ χθες στην εφορία μου κι έλαβα τον κλειδάριθμο για να πιστοποιήσω το λογαριασμό που είχα από παλιότερα (στο παλιό TAXISnet) – έδωσε και νέο password όπως μου ζήτησε και μπήκα να δώ τι καλούδια έχει. Φαίνεται ενδιαφέρον (απ’ότι κατάλαβα πλέον τα βιβλία θα τα κρατάμε ΜΟΝΟ ηλεκτρονικά), αλλά έχει τα bug-άκια του [...]

If you type help IF at the Windows 7 command-line (can launch this by searching at Windows Start menu search box for “Command” or by typing cmd there and pressing ENTER), you get in one of the help pages printed out for the batch files’ IF command: %ERRORLEVEL% will expand into a string representation of [...]

500 Internal Server Error Λυπούμαστε, κάτι δεν πήγε καλά. Η διευθέτηση του ζητήματος έχει ανατεθεί σε μια άρτια εκπαιδευμένη ομάδα μαϊμούδων. If you see them, show them this information: IH6pYV6uW08aEw7RTmh2nctOCLKwYBoSQTT250UKk1Aq9OGTSu0MO16kB8kH IX8I1EZVDq2NHuva2SRpXGL6hG38xdffPCV3YBYJu8LVe1L9r7vz_fQrTavV ...

Just got bitten by the following: Dim takeN As Integer = If(Integer.TryParse(EdTake.Text, takeN), takeN, itemsCount) I had used that instead of writing in 2 lines: Dim takeN As Integer If not Integer.TryParse(EdTake.Text, takeN) then takeN = itemsCount However, there’s an important difference: “If” is a function, so its arguments are evaluated at ...

The other day I submitted my 1st Windows Phone 7 application via http://create.msdn.com Having registered for free as a student developer (being a PhD student on Robotics) via http://dreamspark.com I could only try my 1st app on WP7 emulator – when it gets accepted I will be able to have my WP7 phone unlocked to [...]

Just noticed a nice little touch by Microsoft at Zune player when running on Windows 7. When you move the mouse cursor over the running Zune application button on the taskbar you see a mini-player in the preview window that pops up. It even has a “heart” button there to rate the current song as [...]

Now who has to be more clever? Me or the Twitter programmers who apart from not being polite have managed to fail in simple character counting? They have added automatic link shortening if your message exceeds 140 chars, but fail to count the resulting chars correctly and allow you to press the Tweet button which [...]

Strange IE9 RC bug: visited http://www.vodafone.gr/portal/client/cms/viewCmsPage.action?pageId=0515 (via http://bit.ly/vodafone1kai1_xatzigiannis) and then clicked back several times seeing the above strange back/forward buttons (red color) and a Vodafone icon prefixed before them! Closing the window fixed the issue. Are they using some hidden ...

Just installed Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) Release Candidate (RC), found the link at: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/internet-explorer-9-rc-available-for-download/11349 Was amazed by it’s performance and clean GUI (especially the choice to move the yellow warning bar to the bottom and make it of smaller width than the browser window in order to ...

Seems that day (8 Aug 2010), Google Maps system had been drinking or something, else I can’t explain how “Cara Oasis” and other exotic place names (in Arabic script?) were rendered onto a map for the outskirts of Patras, Greece.

Sometime ago I got the above error screen (after clicking on the error notice at the statusbar) on IE8/Vista at the new Twitter UI (aka #NewTwitter). Exactly what does “The disk is full.” error mean to say? Wonder if twimg.com (probably used to host images served by Twitter like avatar images) was itself running out [...]

At Office (2007) Diagnostics tests I’d expect more fine-grained status codes (rather than a mere “Completed”) so that the Summary view wouldn’t mislead you to think all the identified problems have been corrected. After all not many people would click on the “Detailed results” based on the falsely positive summary as pictured above.