We hit a strange Magento problem yesterday, on one of our sites the one page checkout stopped working. Once the various fields were filled out on the billing details pane and the ‘Continue’ button was pressed, then the checkout would not progress onto the next pane. Debugging on chrome showed that the following JavaScript error […]
If your are trying to get realex e-payment integration working on your website and are getting the following message at the end of the realex redirect process: Your transaction has been successful but there was a problem connecting back to the merchant’s web site. Please contact the merchant and advise them that you received […]
I have been getting 2 or 3 calls to my mobile from +44 131 5531100 for the last few weeks. The first time I received a call I was suspicious and wary enough not to answer and I haven’t answered any of the calls since as the caller never leaves a voice-mail! It’s all getting […]
Over the last few hours I started seeing an annoying problem with Visual Studio and TFS on a geographically distributed software project that I am working on, Visual Studio kept on automatically checking out files that hadn’t been edited, I also started getting the following message before the files were automatically checked out: “There […]
If you are trying to build some code with Visual Studio 2010 and get build errors like this: The type or namespace name ‘CodedUITest’ could not be found … Then it is probably because you are building with an edition of Visual Studio that is not Premium or Ultimate – the professional edition […]
Here is a nice video by the underwater videographer Tony Exall that demonstrates underwater photography using Cathx Ocean solid-state lights. The embedded software that runs on these lights was developed in ANSI C using the GNU Tool Chain (gcc et al.). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUWDj3AqiSg
Lots of software development time wasted yesterday due to a rubbish error and associated error message produced by the Visual Studio Unit test framework! The agent process was stopped while the test was running. No resolution as of yet – but I think it is due to a worker thread in a library […]
If you are doing modern C++ development these days you will be using the boost libraries. I have started using the Raspberry Pi as a stand-in ARM platform for some smart-cam development while I wait for the actual hardware to become available and as such need to install boost. To this end, the boost 1.50 […]
On the whole Visual Studio is a great software development tool with a relatively low number of annoying bugs. However, there is one annoying bug that Microsoft doesn’t seem to be bothered enough to fix… The problem happens if you remove and re-add a file reference to a DLL. When you re-add the reference […]
So in the world of MS Windows software development, the bitness of DLLs (64bit vs 32bit) is the new DLL Hell!! It is slightly annoying that Microsoft eventually dug itself out of decades of DLL hell just to create a new hellish DLL vista – anyway there’s nothing to be done. API vendors will […]