It turns out to be really simple. The DNS being used is adapter specific which makes sense when you think of VPN and multiple other uses so you will need to know the name of the adpater you are using.

In my case it is “Wireless Network Connection”

netsh interface ip set dns "Wireless Network Connection" static <ipaddress>

to set it back:

netsh interface ip set dns "Wireless Network Connection" dhcp

netsh should be in your path so this can be run from any directory in the command line.

It could be that the one thing that is missing on the iPhone (Netflix) is already covered by the iPad but I have not found an application I would like to install that there has not been an Android version of.

There is only really one thing that needs to be resolved before it can blitz the iPhone:

One vendor for Music, Apps and Videos

That vendor already exists you say? Amazon has got it wrapped up. I truly hope so. I am an Amazon Prime customer, EC2 and S3 user and overall Amazon fan. There is one issue. I am on the AT&T network who in their infinite wisdom decided to not allow side loaded apps (no loading of apps that did not come from the Android Market).

This means that the Amazon App Store does not work on AT&T Android phones and until this is resolved I cannot use it

AT&T and Amazon are in talks and hopefully it will be sorted out soon. In the meantime I will continue to enjoy my phone and listening to music using Pandora!

Seeing the tweets from people it looks like the BP part of it was really good. That and the fact that the Dev Summit has not disappointed yet means I think it is going to be a good one.

The Silverlight guys have been doing some awesome stuff in front of the REST API. They have also been doing some cool demos for this week by the sounds of it.

Many of the mobile APIs have there first showing and I really want to hear what they have been up to and what people are saying about it.

More to come!

The iPhone version is just weak. An HTML 5 application that does the best a web app can do but is just nothing compared to native.

I don’t think it makes sense to go into the fine details of why it is better it just is.

Faster
Focused
Large text on the HTC Inspire screen is awesome

Native is the best option for now as far as I am concerned and the Reader app does not disappoint.

It seems to me that counting apps solely based on number is crazy. If someone actually grouped the apps into same function, rated them and got rid of anything but the best 2 then I think the count would be much different.

I for one have only found 1 app missing that I want and need, netflix and I really only watch that on my iPad.

I am not going to worry about apps and focus on if the OS and the functionality in the apps themselves are useful.

For now, first impression is that I like the ios better but the large screen on the HTC inspire is awesome.

When logging into the database you get:

ORA-01034: ORACLE not available.
ORA-27101: shared memory realm does not exist

To solve you connect to sqlplus as follows:

sqlplus /nolog

Login in as a sys dba:

connect sys/sys as sysdba

When connected, startup the database using:

startup

The database will startup and can be connected to as normal.

So this one is mainly for me!!!

EXEC sp_change_users_login 'Update_One', 'john', 'john'

It turned out that the the Silverlight Debugger was not turned on in my ASP.NET MVC app and turning it on solved the issue. Who knows why it was not turned on after I setup the Silverlight app in the website but anyway.

Here are the steps to turn it on:

- Right-click on the web project from within VS.NET
- Select Properties
- In the Properties window select the Web tab
- At the very bottom of the web tab there is a set of checkboxes for the debuggers that will be enabled for this project. Make sure that the Silverlight check-box is set.

In my opinion, the iPhone and the eco-system around it is the best implementation done by apple to date. It is the result of fine tuning their philosophy of building the hardware and the software with one dramatic twist. It is not their software that is selling the phones.

The app store is the single greatest move apple has made. I don’t know if they or any of the application developers make any money right now but they will.

Microsoft have had a decent operating system for many years and there are tons of applications that have been built on it. People do not know about them though and if you do find an app the process of downloading and installing it is a pain. This coming from a guy that develops software for a living is not a good thing!

Apple took a concept given to them by the community an implemented it from a user perspective perfectly.

From a developer aspect it seems like Apple are very restrictive but they have their reasons. The issue is that many developers are used to working in the Microsoft or Linux world where nothing is imposed on you. Just because Apple are different does not mean that they are wrong. Time will tell if their tactic is right.

As for the phone itself this one is the best one I’ve had. Proof is that I am using it to write this post. Try doing that on most other phones!

The information to solve it ends up being on the Infragistics support forums but it NEVER cm up on any search that I ran. I essentially got lucky by finding it through a a set of links in forum entries.

http://blogs.infragistics.com/forums/p/23539/86168.aspx

Turns out of is a bug, go figure. The workaround plus then setting the width of the underlying column to that width (minus 2 so it doesn not show the scroll bars) worked like a charm.