The Blog of Mark (SoftCoder) and Vickie Vejvoda

Technology and Software Development

Recently while trying to compile wxWidgets for the open source project glest, I kept getting errors in VC++ 2008 express edition related to pre-compiled headers. The errors were:
fatal error C1085 … The parameter is incorrect.
In my case the solution was found here (see Gary Gilbreath’s comment.. especially item #3)
I was compiling on a mapped network [...]

I have for some time had an interest and have studied financial systems for Canada and America. At first my interest came when I worked for an online stock trading company, at which time I took the Canadian Securities course (CSC) which I never completed.
I learned so much about the “real” side of the system [...]

I do a lot of work these days in Java and recently I wanted to be able to test a web application that uses Java Applets from my Ubuntu Karmic client. When loading the first applet and viewing the Applet Console window I noticed Firefox would hang and the last line in the console was:
network: [...]

First Follow the steps here. I found that no matter how hard I tried to fix “Sending” emailing using my hotmail account did not solve the issue. I tried a wacky step and it solved my problem:
In Thunderbird goto:
Edit->Account Settings->Outgoing Server (SMTP)
and select your hotmail server (smtp.live.com) and click edit
Now just UNCHECK the “Use name [...]

We have backlogs in Agile and we have technical debt, but what about “moral debt”?
What I am refering to is the phenomenon of things, actions, people, decisions which lead to a bad moral outcome. A bad moral outcome could be something that”de-moralizes” team members, or it could be “ethically immoral” or anything else that makes [...]