Author: Kevin Miller

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About:

I am an Austin Texas based software developer flying his geek flag proudly. I work hard creating customer service and support software and web experiences. When I am not creating software or gushing about my toddler. I soak neck deep in Twitter, discover new music at Rdio, host "European" board game meet ups, and read nerdy stuff like Vernor Vinge.

Posts by Kevin Miller:

Texting can be better than a phone call

March 27, 2007 Let's take a detour away from code for a bit. Don't worry I'll stick close to technology. Let's talk mobile phones. I enjoy sending text messages. Texting as all the cool kids say. We could call it what it is, a basic phone to phone instant message. In my opinion texting it is THE killer communications app for great unwashed technophobic masses flittering here and there away from PCs, away from technology. People who are just being outsideliving their lives. The trouble is people age 25 and older usualy don't know how to do it. It is easy and T9 is your friend. I'll talk more about the how some other time but for now I'll stick to the why. Most people have a mobile phone with them at all times. If I need to give you a piece of information the simplest most non-invasive way to…

Vista printed

March 23, 2007 Turns out I simply needed to download the drivers from HP and add the printer addressing it via IP. Add a network, wireless, yadda yadda printer. Try "The printer I want is not listed." Even though it like is. Add a printer using TCP/IP Enter the IP of the printer. For our environment I could only figure it out by walking up to the printer and tapping on the menu button in a frenzy until I found the screen that told me what the IP was. Figuring this out for your printer is up to you. Good Luck. a few more screens... then Test page printed fine. IM Software Trillian Arista - Alpha IM client I was using that started acting weird in Vista. Trillian 3.1 Pro IM client I LOVE that does appears not to work in Vista. Live Messenger - Crappy…

Vista printing

March 22, 2007 Gah! I tried adding our office printer. No dice. Turns out we do not have x64 drivers installed. One more thing to go figure out. More Software Windows Live Writer (beta) - to complete this post Paint.Net - to post the image above Windows Mobile Device Center - for my Smartphone

Vista – rinse lather repeat

Oh happy day. After three years kicking around on the same development box I got a new machine (Dell 9200 loaded up nicely). I decided to explore using Vista for development so I wanted to chronicle my experiences installing Vista (twice) and getting it tooled for development usage. Vista out of the box The install went very smooth nothing of note no driver issues and Windows Update quickly brought vista up to speed with drivers that were missing. This went smoother than my install of Vista on an older home machine. I was/still am in driver hell. After adding the machine to the domain I quickly realized that I should add my domain account as an administrator as every time I tried to install a piece of software I was asked for an admin password. I likely could have invoked all…

ActiveRecord SessionScope

February 19, 2007 I have been spending some time trying to understand how Castle's ActiveRecord manages SessionScopes for web applications. A SessionScope abstracts access to the database and manages a cache of conversions with the database (likely an oversimplified.) In a web application scenario it is best to 'scope' the SessionScope to a web request as this is the logically boundary of a single unit of work. I am interested in how this approach is superior than simply using an IOC container like Windsor with a PerWebRequest lifestyle. Here is a bit of info about the classes involved in scoping SessionScope per web request for Castle's web applications: SessionScope For the most part in ActiveRecord a SessionScope abstracts a NHibernate Session. provides access to current session. The injected FlushAction tells it what to do during disposal. Basically flush changes to the database or do nothing. The SessionScope also can get injected with a SessionScopeType (Simple, Transactional,...) The static SessionScope.Current is…

Manually setup Dovetail WebServices on Windows 2003 Server

January 30, 2007 We had a customer who needs to be able to manually setup our WebServices under IIS6 so I thought it would be best to share this with everyone. This guide will take you through setting up a virtual web directory under IIS version 6 on Windows Server 2003. It will also show you how to set the security on your files to make sure the web service will work. You will need to have Dovetail SDK installed on the target machine. Note: The installer can automatically setup WebServices. The goal of this post is to outline the manually steps that will reproduce what the installer does automatically. You will also need to have the web application role setup on the Windows 2003 server. Bring up IIS Manager. Right click on Default Web Site Click on New and select the Virtual…

Hello

Just wanted to introduce myself. I am Kevin Miller long time blog reader first time blogger. I have been with Dovetail Software for almost exactly 3 years now and enjoyed helping out on Dovetail SDK, RuleManager and SchemaEditor. This will likely be a blog filled with technical content about the products we make and the technologies we dabble into. I will also likely serialize some support information that will be valuable to our customers. I will warn you my sentence structure will leave you guessing but hopefully the content will make amends for my grammatical transgressions.

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