Adam Howitt's Blog

Comcast "Business Class" and the RCN Business Tax

Fri, 18 May 2012 16:11:00 -0500

After a month of outages at the office for our "Business Class" Comcast internet service we've started shopping for a new provider. Thought I'd share an enlightening explanation of what business class means. First off, Comcast charges us $99.95 f...

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Seeking Android Developer

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:46:00 -0500

I'm the CEO of WalkJogRun.net, a Chicago based startup in the Ravenswood Corridor. Our site gets over 16,000 visitors a day from around the world from runners looking to map a route, download a training plan or log their training to our diary. Our ...

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User does not have permission to run DBCC TRACEON

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 15:18:00 -0500

I ran into an issue with a Microsoft Query based Excel work sheet a month ago and again just yesterday so I thought I'd share the workaround/fix here for my own sake and anyone else who is butting their head against a wall! The exact error message i...

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Getting Started with iCloud - Entitlement Issues

Wed, 19 Oct 2011 12:25:00 -0500

After battling through what seemed like a simple procedure to setup WalkJogRun for iCloud I figured I'd share the fix that worked for me. The procedure as I understood it was as follows Enable iCloud for your fully qualified appId in the provisio...

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Cisco VPN on Lion Workaround Update

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 17:11:00 -0500

After a few months of booting into 32 bit mode, that got tiresome too. Shutting everything down, rebooting and then doing the work I needed before rebooting to go back to 64 bit again. Yawn. So two updates for you. Faster switching The first ...

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Cisco VPN on Lion Workaround

Thu, 04 Aug 2011 13:15:00 -0500

I found out the hard way that Cisco's VPN doesn't like Lions. Specifically as I began testing Lion developer previews without the safety net of a testing machine (big mistake) I was unable to get on the VPN for one of my clients. I installed th...

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Virtually Home

Wed, 18 May 2011 13:42:00 -0500

This site has been shifted around over the years from host to host and so it has moved again. We're up on Amazon's EC2 servers for much better stability. I had previously been on a dedicated VPC solution from a small hosting company but kept ru...

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Run a Linux process on a remote server and disconnect terminal session

Thu, 06 Jan 2011 14:39:00 -0500

I've been writing some nifty python scripts lately as we (WalkJogRun) migrate our route data from XML files to Google Maps encoded polylines. I finally whipped the script into shape and started pulling our route data from Amazon S3, encoding as SQL ...

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Calculate Week of Year starting on a Monday

Wed, 17 Nov 2010 15:38:00 -0500

I am putting together a training log for WalkJogRun members to log their training data and ran into a spot with ColdFusion 8 showing Sunday as the first day of the week. Exercise training plans generally start on a Monday so I had to find a way arou...

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Apple is Doing the Right Thing Blocking Flash

Fri, 09 Apr 2010 15:54:00 -0500

I just read Joa Ebert's theoretical conversation parodying the move by Apple to block Flash code-generation tools and thought I'd repost my argument here. The argument is that Apple is being petty or childish by preventing developers from using code...

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Run your ass off this year!

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:48:00 -0500

After another 200 hour programming marathon spread over 4 months I'm thrilled to announce the release of version 3 of WalkJogRun's iPhone App "WalkJogRun Running Routes". What does it do? The most significant change version 2 was the addition of ...

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Affiliate Link Shortening for Profit

Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:15:00 -0500

Coupon Cabin just launched their latest offering yesterday in the world of affiliate marketing called Dealfer.com so you make commissions on the sales you generate at participating merchants. It's a clever idea and leverages their relationships with...

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Find a ColdFusion Framework

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:15:00 -0500

Looking to mine my readership for information about ColdFusion Frameworks. I'm working on a site redesign for a high profile, high traffic site and we're looking to select a framework. Which frameworks have you used and what do you like/dislike abo...

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Working with Dates and Date offsets in iPhone Development

Sat, 19 Sep 2009 13:00:00 -0500

It's been a slow iPhone development week partly because I'm in the peak week of my marathon training but the main reason is that the work I did was pretty frustrating so it put me off doing more until today. When is a date not a date? When it's a...

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Testing iPhone StoreKit purchases

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 12:03:00 -0500

I spent a significant amount of time troubleshooting the iPhone StoreKit framework for our WalkJogRun iPhone app this weekend. I finally discovered that the documentation was slightly misleading after discovering a post on the Apple developer forums...

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