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Learning by doing

September 2007 Entries

I have just released SocketProxy version 1.5 in the download section. The server stays the same but I have made changes to the Socket Proxy client configuration: Automatic proxy configuration by client IP. Changes to the client IP is detected live so there is no need to restart the client . New parameters for tuning performance. Moved configuration from app.config to a .xml file in the same directory as the client. This makes the configuration easier to read and you can make changes on the fly as the file is parsed on each incoming connection.

It took me forever to give birth to my Gmail notifier. I started working on it in February 2006 but soon realized that it would be a huge job as .NET CF is missing a lot of the features used by the Gmail API. Fixing some of the bugs in the API and using the Mono source as a reference, I first got a version working on the PPC a couple a weeks ago. Or at least I thought it did. It works perfectly on the PC but it frequently fails with a https error on the devices I have tried (iPaq 4150 and iPaq rw6815): _HResult -2146233079 int InnerException {"Procedura di convalida con il certificato remoto non riuscita."} System.Exception {System.Net.WebException} Message "Procedura ...

I have used Windows Live Mail Desktop beta for almost one year without any serious problems. Synchronizing with Hotmail stopped working recently and gave me this error: Unable to poll for new messages on your HTTP server. There is an error synchronizing your mail account. Please verify your account has been configured correctly by first accessing your mail on the web. Server: 'http://mail.services.live.com/DeltaSync_v1.0.0/sync.aspx', Protocol: HTTPMail, Server Response: 'Client is requesting a deprecated version of the service. User should upgrade to the newest version of the client', Port: 80, Secure(SSL): No, Server Error: 4109, Error Number: 0x8DE00002 The problem ...

UGISS, the Italian SQL Server Users Group, is organizing a free event with Microsoft 3/10 Road to Katmai - SQL Server 2008 [Italian] in Milano. I have attended several of the other UGISS events and I highly recommend them. Morning Agenda: SQL Server 2008 Public CTP - Data Platform Overview (Speaker: Davide Mauri) Database & Time-Dependent Data - Parte 2 (Speaker: Gianluca Hotz) Afternoon DBA Track: SQL Server 2008 Public CTP - Novità per gli amministratori (Speaker: Gianluca Hotz) Monitoring & Testing Tools (Speaker: Davide Mauri) TBD Afternoon Developer Track: SQL Server 2008 Public CTP - Novità per gli sviluppatori (Speaker: Andrea ...