June 27, 2012

Installing ASP.NET MVC 3 and Web Platform Installer

Filed under: asp.net — Tags: , , , — Himanshu @ 12:01 am

I had a problem in using the Visual Studio Install that I had in my machine, due to which I decided to re-install everything related to Visual Studio , including Visual Studio itself.  During installation procedure, I reached to the point when I was ready with base Visual Studio 2010 installed, and next step was to update system with bunch of other frameworks and patches that included ASP.NET MVC 3, Visual Studio 2010 SP1, and some other. It was making sense to me to install all together with Web Platform installer. Added everything that I wanted to install in Web Platform installer and asked it to install. It happily declared everything done. But when I tried opening the project solution, Visual Studio complaint about missing ASP.NET MVC 3.

On further investigation about why and what, surprise! ASP.NET MVC 3 actually was missing on the system! Web Platform installer was fooling me when it said “Completed everything”. Finally I found that due to Latest NuGet install on my machine, installer for MVC 3, was not able to successfully install.

Leaky Abstraction!

June 12, 2012

Transistors are also De-amplifier

Filed under: electronics — Tags: , , , — Himanshu @ 1:08 pm

I’m enjoying my exploration of electronics. While understanding about different building blocks, I learnt about Transistor. And I also learnt that transistors are also called amplifiers. During learning about their amplification capability, I also realized that they are certainly amplifier but they don’t generate electricity from air (unfortunately!). They need two input voltage one at Base and another at Collector. When Base is positively charged – low voltage applied to it, they allow higher voltage applied at Collector to pass towards Emitter, and that’s how they are called amplifier.

Me being fresher in electronics, I recommend other fresher to also note that if you see through transistors from Base to Emitter they are certainly amplifiers, but if you see through Collector to Emitter, they are de-amplifiers as they don’t generate electricity from air.

June 7, 2012

SessionStorage on Safari

Filed under: html5 — Tags: , , , , — Himanshu @ 10:23 am

Like everything in life has quota, Safari allots specific size to each applications that it can consume to store information in session storage. If consumption exceeds, while calling setItem it throws QUOTA error.  While creating one HTML5 based application for one of the client. I found that Safari that comes on iPad 1 built on top of AppleWebKit 531.21.10 has two reason to throw this error. First like I said on exceeding the limit and another on when an key already exists. To workaround the second case, have to write our own function that first removes item using removeItem and then SetItem

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