SQL Server 2008: FIXED “Saving changes is not permitted”

Working in SQL Server 2008 I received this confusing error when editing the structure of a table:
“Saving changes is not permitted. The changes that you have made require the following tables to be dropped and re-created. You have either made changes to a table that can’t be re-created or enabled the option Prevent saving changes [...]

Remove Unwanted Firefox Auto-Suggest Entries

Firefox 3 is awesome we all know that, but there are some things that that would just be nice to have. One of those things would be the ability to control what appears for the auto suggest when you type in the URL bar.
Most of the time FireFox does a very good job of figuring [...]

SQL Server 2008: FIXED “Data has changed since the Results pane was last retrieved”

Today I was trying to edit the value in a table cell through the query browser in Microsoft SQL Server Management Itudio and I kept getting the following error:
Data has changed since the Results pane was last retrieved. Do you want to save your changes now?
(Optimistic Concurrency Control Error)
Click Yes to commit your changes to [...]

follow up to my iPad predictions

So Apple has announced the iPad. This is a follow up to the predictions  I posted last week.
Things I was right about:

Apple will announce a tablet device
new version of the iPhone OS, 3.2.2
iPad will run on the iPhone OS
iPad will run iPhone applications
The iPad will have a 10 inch screen (9.7 inches is close enough)
16, [...]

iPhone OS 4.0 / iSlate Predictions

Create Wordpress Thumbnails Automatically

WordPress has the ability to allow post authors to assign custom fields to a post. This arbitrary extra information is known as meta-data. This meta-data can be used by theme authors to do some pretty cool things.
The theme I am currently using allows for a custom field named “thumb”. If you create the “thumb” custom [...]

RotoPhoto, my first iPhone app

WOW, here I am about to release my second iPhone app, and I realized that I haven’t blogged about my first iPhone app!
“RotoPhoto” is my first iPhone app. It’s a simple tool that allows you to rotate the orientation of a photo taken with the iPhone. The internal sensors of the iPhone are designed to [...]

I upgraded my mac!

A few months ago I bought a Mac mini so I could start to develop iPhone applications. I must say that I am growing to be more of a Mac user then I thought i would be. I purposly bought a cheap Mac to get started with, but I’m starting to regret it. One of [...]

Internet Explorer 6 must die!

As a professional web developer I have the authority to say this, Internet Explorer is a pain in the ass to support. IE 6 is the browser that shipped with Windows XP, so it was pretty wide spread. Every year on the web is like 10 years in any other industry. This makes IE 6 [...]

iPhone + AIM + push notification = Happy Josh Highland

I got my real start in programming making “progies”, back when MaGuS and fungii ruled the scene (only a fist full of people will know who I am talking about), circa 1995. I have and always will have a soft spot in my heart for AOL instant messaging. I don’t use the AOL service anymore, [...]

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