Sample service program for accessing UPS Online City/State/Zip validation using RPGLE and the HTTPAPI from Scott Klement.
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I am fairly sure I am not the only one who has been happily typing along, only to suddenly notice my PC is rebooting because I inadvertantly triggered the 'Restart Now' option of the Automatic Updates restart reminder popup. In two minutes you can make sure this never happens to you again.
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A domain group policy kept resetting the LogonAsService rights on one of my reporting services, and the domain admin was not able to figure out how to stop it from happening. The solution was simpler than expected...
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Visual Studio 2010 brings us to the cloud, but only if you are running Vista or newer on your development PC. It would have been nice if they told me that before I had invested so much time in a new XP SP3 virtual machine buildup. This post will walk you though getting IIS7 and the Azure SDK & Tools all running in an XP environment.
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Voices from the other side, courtesy of the Sprint Network!
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Looking for an app to play VVF files and convert to AVI? Vx4SLPlayer will do it...
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When you type in your new password you will see a message that reads:
Your Windows password could not be changed. To change your password, you must log on to your organization's network or contact your system administrator.
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I was reading the latest issue of System iNews earlier this week, and I stumbled upon a reference to an article about adding System i Data Sources to Visual Studio 2008. Since I had written about this very subject I was curious to see how my own solution matched up with the solution provided by IBM...
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Spent a couple of hours tracking down a seemingly random bug this morning, only to find it is a known issue dating back to 2000. How can this not be resolved in the 2009 release?
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Why is it that some programmers are so quick to abandon their users with a remark like 'we don't support x64'? This is a quick story about making a developer's app work in x64, even though the developer did not seem to have any interest in making it happen...
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