Using naked drives for backup. from daniel wanja.

Which solution do you use? Let me know.

First I did login to their online system and looked for the option to cancel the account.

* Didn't find in the menus.

* Did a search using their search box...didn't find.

* Looked at the FAQ, found AskDish...

Yea...that may work...and the answer was: "We are sorry to hear that you want to discontinue your DISH Network service. Unfortunately ASKDISH is unable to fulfill this request. You will need to call our customer service center at 1-800-333-3474, if you decide to leave us.

Electronic Funds Transfer AutoPay allows you to automatically withdraw your monthly DISH Network bill from your checking or savings account. It’s quick, easy and you never have to worry about late fees! Coming soon, enroll online when you log into My Account."

Of course...that would have been to easy. And don't ask me what the second part of the answer has to do with the first.

All right, it's 8pm, let's call that number.

Automated New operator:"In a Few words..how can I help you?"

I say: Cancel Account.

Automated New operator: What do you want to cancel? service, channel, auto-pay, none of those?

Me: none of those.

Automated New operator:Please wait while we transfer your call...

2 minutes pass...

Automated New operator:Please hold for the next customer representative...

Operator:...music...and adds...

2 minutes...

Automated New operator:Thank you for calling DishNetwork. Please hold for the next customer representative...

10 minutes later... a real person

Operator: Can I have your phone number?

Me: (I provide the number and continue with) I want to cancel the account?

Operator: Can you tell me the reasons?

Me: No, just cancel the account.

Operator: We are having system maintenance...I am still trying to pull up your account.

Operator: We would really hate to loose you? We can arrange something? Is it about the bill? Is it about the programming?

Me: no, just cancel the account.

Operator: I need to transfer the call to an account specialist. Please hold on.

Me: ok.

New operator: My name is Marianne.

New operator: What makes you cancel the account?

Me: nothing, please cancel the account.

New operator: If it's technical, I can transfer you to a technician.

Me: nothing, please cancel the account

New operator: If it's financial, I can put the account on hold.

Me: nothing, please cancel the account.

New operator: Please hold I start the process.

couple of minutes go by.

New operator: (she start to read really, really fast a long message...didn't get most of it)... 10 days..30 days to return the equipment...2 receiver..3 remote...eye on the dish....Final bill. Can not give you the amount, you'll get a bill in a couple of days. Otherwise can...We are sorry to have lost you as a customer. Any questions?

Me: What's the reference number of the cancellation.

New operator: It's the number the operator mentioned at the beginning.

Me: What's the reference number of the cancellation.

New operator: (she provides a three letter code).

8:24pm. Pfuu...20minutes. Note bad. Once they get you, they really don't wanna let you go :-) Now let's see if that cancelled my account...or if it's just the start of a longer process.

All you need is to include his different javascript

<script type="text/javascript" src="code_highlighter.js"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="javascript.js"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="css.js"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="html.js"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="ruby.js"></script>

A provides the .css styling for the code. I moved all the different css he provides in his example to codehighlighter.css.

Then you just need to wrap the code in these tags:

<pre>
<class="javascript>

In short with that framework you can create several migrations that each look as follows:

@interface CreateStudents : FmdbMigration{}@end@implementation CreateStudents- (void)up {  [self createTable:@"students" withColumns:[NSArray arrayWithObjects:      [FmdbMigrationColumn columnWithColumnName:@"first_name" columnType:@"string"],      [FmdbMigrationColumn columnWithColumnName:@"age" columnType:@"integer" defaultValue:21],      nil];}- (void)down {  [self dropTable:@"students"];}@end

That way the next time the application is updated the migration required to bring your application uptodate will be run. Cool. Note only can you add and remove columns but you can also run Objective-C code that will adapt the existing data to the required format for the new version.

Now I've gotta play with that framework.

Thanks guys for sharing this!

This is a great book which as the name highlights is a sum of recipes that explain various aspects of the application. I am today at the http://pragmaticstudio.com/iphone/ training and are using Erica's book to find several answers to questions we are challenged with during the labs. It's a great book when you start iPhone development as time over time you will be faced with the question "how do they do that?" and thanks to the books organization it's straight forward to find the answers. In addition the book comes with extensive code sample which you can check out as well as "videos" of the application that you will build. The book has also a recipe on accessing SQLLite that also cover FMDB one of the SQLLite wrappers (http://code.google.com/p/flycode/source/browse/trunk/fmdb). Note the FMDB coverage is not in depth. In short it's a must have if you get started with iPhone development.

Show Source Code Details.
Show Video Sample List.

C01  01a - CoreHelloWorld  01a - CoreHelloWorld RevisedC02 - Views  01a-02a - Basic Subview Rects  03a - DragMultipleViews  03b - DragMultipleViewsPersistant  04a - Clipped Views  04b - PixelTest WithView  05a - Multitouching  06a - Fade Anim  06b - Swap Anim  07a - FlipView  07b - FlipView CoreAnim  07c - MapCurl  07d - CoreAnim-Jump  07e - FlipViewSwipe  08a - AffineRotateC03 - Controllers  00a - WalkThrough  00b - Xiblets  01a - MenuButtons  02a - Segment4Way  03a - UpDownNavbar  04a - Colored Drilling  05a - Brightness Toolbar SwatchesC04 - Alerts  00a - HelloAlert  01a - HelloAlert2  01b - MultiLineAlert  02a - TimedAlert  03a - Text Input  04a - Base Menu  05a - HUD  06a - ProgressInd1  06b - ProgressInd2  07a - ProgressBar1  08a - OverlayWait  09a - ScrollDownAltColors  10a - StatusBarNormal  11a - VeryBasicAudio  11b - VibrationTestC05 - Tables  01a - Base Table   02a - FontPickerTable  03a - ImageTable  04a - Text Traits  04b - Deselect  05a - CustomCell  06a - Checks  07a - Delete  08a - Reorder  09a - ChevronsC06 - Tables2  01a - Grouped Table  01b - Headers  02a - Indexed Section List  02b - Alt Sections  03a - CustomBG  03b - Over Logo  04a - BlueWhite  05a - Framed  06a - OnOff  07a - Picker  08a - Date1  09a - PrefsTableC08 - Controls  01a - Toggle Button  01b - RoundedRect Button  01c - Pushbutton  02a - AnimButton  03a - AnimButtonFlip  04a - CustSwitch  04b - Explode  04c - DeadlyAlert  05a - Slider  05b - TextSlider  06a - Dismiss Keyboard  07a - Dismiss Keyboard TextView  08a - Undo button  09a - TextView HTML  10a - Searchbar  11a - CalloutView  12a - PageIndicator  13a - Toolbar Customize  90a- ControlXRayC09 - PeoplePlacesThings  01a - Finding People  02a - Displaying People  03a - PeoplePicking  04a - Location  05a - Reverse Geocoding  06a - Map  07a - Device Info  08a - Proximity  09a - Direction  10a - Free MovementC10 - Connecting to Services  01a - Prefs 101  02a - CustomURLScheme  03a - IP Addy Palooza  04a - SQLite  05a - TreeParser  06a - Keychain OneVal  06b - Keychain Many Vals  07a - Simple Web ServiceC11 - One More Thing  01a-Coverflow

Video sampleshttp://ericasadun.com/ftp/CodeSamples/* Bonus Samples/  # BounceBack.mov  # CircularCoverFlow2.mov  # Flipper.mov* Chapter 2 Samples/  #  AffineTransforms.mov  # ClippedViews.mov  # ColorSample.mov  # CoreAnimation.mov  # FadeAnim.mov  # FadeSwap.mov  # FlipView.mov  # MapCurl.png  # Orientations.mov  # dragitems.mov  # multitouch.mov  # swipe1.mov  # swipe2.mov* Chapter 3 Samples/  #  ColorDrill.mov  # ColorMenu.mov  # Converter.mov  # NavItemToolBar.mov  # SegmentAndNavbar.mov  # TabBarSwatches.mov* Chapter 4 Samples/  #  DecIndOverlay.mov  # HUD.mov  # HelloAlert1.mov  # HelloAlert2.mov  # Menu.mov  # Overlay.mov  # ProgBar.mov  # ProgInd.mov  # Statusbar1.mov  # TextInput.mov  # Timed.mov  # sbar2.mov* Chapter 5 Samples/  #  BaseTable.mov  # Chevrons.mov  # Deletes.mov  # FontPicker.mov  # Reorders.mov  # checking.mov  # deselection.mov* Chapter 6 Samples/  #  BlueWhitePattern.mov  # ComplexTable.mov  # ControlsPlusState.mov  # CustomCellBGs.mov  # CustomTableTraits.mov  # DatePicker.mov  # FramedTable.mov  # GroupedTable.mov  # IndexTable.mov  # Labeled Groups.mov  # PickerView.mov* Chapter 7 Samples/  #  SimplePhotoSelection.mov  # UIScroller.mov  # UIWebView.mov* Chapter 8 Samples/  #  AlertWithRedButton.mov  # AnimButton.mov  # AnimatedButtonFlip.mov  # CalloutViews.mov  # DynText.mov  # DynamicCreatedThumb.mov  # HTMLEditor.mov  # KeyboardDismissal.mov  # PageControl.mov  # Searchfield.mov  # SwitchCustomizer.mov  # Text101.mov  # TextViewKeyboardDismiss.mov  # ToggleButton.mov  # Tool Swapout.mov  # UndoButton.mov* Chapter 9 Samples/  #  BaseLocate.mov  # DisplayingPeople.mov  # GrabbingMapData.mov  # PeoplePicker.mov  # PeopleSearch.mov* Chapter 10 Samples/  #  CustomURLScheme.mov  # Prefs.mov  # XMLParsing.mov* Chapter 11 Samples/  Coverflow.mov

I am jumping into that show from time to time, but where is that story going? Do you think it's worthwhile you time to watch? I like the idea, but it's not catching on. What can the writers add to the plot? What are your thoughts?

Day 1

During this first day we are creating some basic iPhone applications that allow us to walk through some key concepts of Objective-C, XCode and Project Builder and provides some basic understanding of the UIKit framework, such a ViewController, UITextView, UITextField. We currently created one app using Interface Builder and another by programatically creating the view. Although today's pace is quite slow it really allows us to wrap our heads around using the tools and framework and will be useful for the next three days.

Resources

In the mean time I was search for some online resources and found these of interest to get started with Objective-C.

• Learn Objective-C: http://cocoadevcentral.com/d/learn_objectivec/


• Cocoa Style for Objective-C: Part I: http://cocoadevcentral.com/articles/000082.php


• Cocoa Style for Objective-C: Part II: http://cocoadevcentral.com/articles/000083.php


• Introduction to Coding Guidelines for Cocoa: http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/CodingGuidelines/Co...

Of course I am looking for a tool to avoid having to interact with SQLLite directly and found following links:

• http://sourceforge.net/projects/iphonesqliteper


• http://blog.saers.com/archives/2008/03/14/sqlite-for-iphone-sdk/


• http://code.google.com/p/entropydb/


• http://www.builtfromsource.com/2008/08/30/orm-comes-to-the-iphone-sqlite-persistent-objects/


• http://code.google.com/p/sqlitepersistentobjects/


• http://www.omnigroup.com/developer/ (OmniDataObjects)

I downloaded OmniDataObjects and will check it out over the next few days and will keep you posted. The framework doesn't contain much documentation, I will also have to browse the forums to find some answers. Anyone has a pointer to some sample application?

Wireframe for OmniGraffle

Described here http://theresaneil.wordpress.com/2008/04/30/wire-frames-for-iphone-web-applic... and downloadable there http://www.graffletopia.com/stencils/358

I would love to use such a stencil but this one doesn't have many of the newer component...still I like to prototype before coding...as I am pretty slow at coding that stuff right now. I guess I will use paper cards for now.

These guys http://320480.com have a photoshop file with different states your application can be in.

1. Access any web page and you are greeted with a screen where you need to enter your phone number:

2. Wait for a text message witn further access information. I received it in less that 20 seconds...

3. View the text message, it has a link. Click it...

4. Finally, you are connected. Now you can reenter the url where you initially wanted to go.

So all in all I'll keep using my 3g as this step is too complex. Click one button should be all it takes...Try doing the same at http://www.panerabread.com/. />
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