Synology Not Able To Upload File

Had this problem where Synology Diskstation did not allow to upload a file from the File Station. When pressing the upload button nothing happened. Same in all major browsers. It turned out Java needed to be updated and it apparently wasn’t allowed to run the upload procedure before the update was applied. So make sure

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Xcode UITableView Cells Are Not Transparent Anymore

The UITableView has change in iOS 7, the transparent is turned off, well the cell’s background has a color (white) now. So the background is not visible anymore, resulting in an unwanted tableview look. To fix this set the cell’s background to clearColor in the cellForRowAtIndexPath – (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath { cell.backgroundColor =

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iOS 7 Navigation Bar Appear Over The Views

A lot of elements has changed in iOS7, they have introduced new properties that lets you adjust the layout behavior as in previous versions of iOS. The Navigation Bar appears over the views now because a default setting has changed, to address this issue use this line in the viewDidLoad() self.edgesForExtendedLayout = UIRectEdgeNone; This will

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Git tf Path Already Mapped

Running with Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server with different projects in the DefaultCollection. Using the great tool called Git-TF http://gittf.codeplex.com/ you can pull and work with git while still having tfs as your default vcs. E.g. Xcode can’t connect to tfs so pulling to a git and running your Xcode project from the git repository you

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Xcode Can’t Ignore UserInterfaceState.xcuserstate

Running version control in Xcode can give some troubles when setting up in an existing project. Having an existing project added to a new Git repository the Xcode keep saying UserInterfaceState.xcuserstate has changes. The working copy “helloworld” has uncommitted changes. Commit or discard the changes and try again. Committing the changes doesn’t help as it keep

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Xamarin Application Could Not Be Started

Encounter this error today while using Xamarin. The application could not be started. Ensure that the application has been installed to the target device and has a launchable activity (MainLauncher = true). Additionally, check Build -> Configuration Manager to ensure this project is set to Deploy for this configuration.   The setup was as follow: Using

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Mac Default Open Skype At Startup

From Skype 2.7 on Mac the startup has changed. It used the general system startup settings rather then a separate preferences for Skype. This means you can’t set it in the Skype preferences. To set Skype to open at startup Ctrl+click on the Skype icon in the Dock and check the “Open at Login” under Option.

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VirtualBox Log Files Location

VirtualBox log files is one of the great tools to diagnose an issue in your VirtualBox. It will always create a log file which reflects the lifecycle of your virtual machine. VirtualBox log files is located in user/per-vm directory. Depending on the OS: On Windows, %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%\.VirtualBox\Machines\\Logs E.g. C:\Documents and Settings\Username\.VirtualBox\Machines\\Logs\vbox. log On Mac OS X, this

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DerivedData for Xcode 4.5

When updating Xcode to 4.5 the DerivedData has disappear it seems. Though it has just been moved to another location. Now it’s at: ~/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/— You can find the location in Xcode 4.5 by looking at Preferences->Location. This shows where your Derived Data location actually is on the File System.