Little Programing Tips

If you have ever tried to import a file into FileZilla from your domain host only to find that using the supplied settings produced the, Connection-attempt-failed-with-EAI_NONAME---Neither-nodename-nor-servname-provided-or-not-known".   error, you are in luck. I am going to show you a quick way to take care of this issue. When you are using an FTP client to connect to your site, you typically have a setup that looks something like this. (Note - if you are using FileZilla, your screen looks EXACTLY like this, since this is the ftp client I am using here.) Notice the area I have highlighted in Yellow. This is the problem child in this scenario. Although your hosting company may have stated that you should use ftp.YourWebsite.com, that is often NOT the correct thing for you to use to gain remote ftp access to your site. The error means that the program cannot resolve the dns entry for your site. Instead of using ftp.YourWebsite.com, you need to replace the host ftp.YourWeb...

There are a number of ways to test your Android app on a Samsung device. You can, of course, set up the device in your IDE of choice - Android Studio, Eclipse, Visual Studio, etc. However, if you need to test against Samsung devices, you have another option. That option is to use Samsung Labs! From tablets, to gear, to phones - Samsung Labs allow you to test against a variety of devices all from one place! The Lab site also allows you to keep track of what you tested against, which can come in handy when you have to remember little details like that (lol). Here is the interface for the Samsung Labs website: It is very easy to get started. All you have to do is create a free Samsung account. The Samsung Lab system is credit based, as you can see from the image. When you sign up for your free account,  you are given a number of credits. You can get free additional credits as needed. I have a Samsung Galaxy Note 8, but I have a habit of keeping all of my old phones to de...

If you ever need to figure out your external IP Address or you need to figure it out to authorize inbound traffic for your Windows database instances on AWS, Amazon has a little website tool that will help you accomplish this. http://checkip.amazonaws.com/ This address will give you your external IP address and allow you to give AWS exactly what it needs. Enjoy! Kila Morton

If you are building your Android applications in Android Studio or another IDE, you may come across the following error: Could not resolve all dependencies for configuration ':app:_debugApkCopy'. > Could not find any version that matches com.android.support:appcompat-v7:27.+. Versions that do not match: 26.0.0-alpha1 25.3.1 25.3.0 25.2.0 25.1.1 + 31 more Required by: project :app > Could not find any version that matches com.android.support:design:27.+. Versions that do not match: 26.0.0-alpha1 25.3.1 25.3.0 25.2.0 25.1.1 + 21 more Required by: project :whateverYourProjectAppNameIs This is happening because there has been a change that requires an update in your code. You used to be able to download the Google support files through the SDK Manager. This is the familiar place where you select all of the items that you want to add and the system will then fetch those items and add them to your setup. Google, however, has now decided that they will not provide support ...

Amazon RDS is a wonderful tool for creating databases in AWS. If you use Microsoft's SQL Server Database, you might be wondering how you can manage your database while using Amazon RDS SQL Server instances. The answer is, the same way you always have - by using SQL Server Management Studio. In fact, managing your Amazon RDS SQL Server database instance using SQL Server Management Studio is SUPER easy! Let me show you how. I am going to assume that you already have SQL Server Management Studio installed on your machine and running. Open SQL Server Management Studio. Click on Connect in the upper right hand corner of the Object Explorer. Click on Database Engine. You will be presented with the following screen . If you are using Windows Authentication in Amazon RDS, then you will switch to that Authentication method. If you are not, then select SQL Server Authentication . In this case, my Amazon RDS SQL Server instance is set to use SQL Server Authentication. . Now, go ...

We often create shortcuts to items we frequently use as we work. These shortcuts can live on the desktop, on the start menu or on the taskbar, where we most frequently use them. When you set up a command shortcut, it is often with the intent of working within a specific directory. Navigating a the structure of a directory is simple to do in a command prompt. You can use cd to get to a specific location once the command prompt is open. For example, if you are in the c:\, the following will take you to the places specified: cd windows will take you to C:\windows> cd windows\system32 C:\Windows\System32> cd.. will take you down one level to C:\Windows> cd\  will take you down to the root level This is fine, but when you initially launch the command prompt, you may not want to navigate around each and every time. There is a simple way to create a shortcut that will take you exactly where you want to go each and every time. You may also have a situation where ...