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September 2008 - Posts

Off to StarWest

I'm off at StarWest , so the blog will be a bit quieter this week. If you happen to be in Anaheim, look for the pale bald guy. Read More...
Posted Monday, September 29, 2008 8:13 AM by joshpoley | 1 Comments
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Save My Image File's Metadata

The relatively new " Metadata Working Group " just released their first publication on guidelines for making the metadata stored in image files more portable across applications and file formats. Ever since I started photographing with a Digital SLR camera, Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 25, 2008 8:03 AM by joshpoley | 0 Comments
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Running 32bit dependent scripts in a 64bit world

As seen earlier , it can be problematic to run scripts which rely on 32bit COM objects on a 64bit platform. To make things easier, I wrote basic some script code to detect that the wrong scripting host was run and fork out to the correct one. This just Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 18, 2008 10:44 AM by joshpoley | 1 Comments
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CreateObject fails with 0x80040154

I've got a handful of stand-alone script files (mostly JavaScript) which I run from cscript.exe or wscript.exe to perform various tasks. Unfortunately, when I was setting up one of these scripts on a Server 2008 box it started to fail when attempting Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 17, 2008 8:15 AM by joshpoley | 1 Comments
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Testing when "the code is the documentation"

Throughout the course of my testing career, I've often heard this dreaded statement. Despite the causes behind it, I think that there will always be times when you just won't get any formal documentation or specification on how a piece of software is Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 03, 2008 3:03 PM by joshpoley | 1 Comments
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