So the crashing has been happening again; about once a day.  I think I’ve isolated the problem to Pocket Informant 8.  I’ve removed the software and it works fine now.

I’m using Agenda One to do my stuff now, and my phone seems happier.

Update teh 2nd: I turned the auto update feature for Agenda One to check every day, and lo and behold, my phone had crashed in the middle of the night (but also rebooted on its own, so it’s not so bad) so it looks like it’s not limited to PI8…any app that tries to open the Data connection when the phone is asleep and locked with a simple PIN type password.  So I’m back to looking into this issue.

So I was bored and started working on a Pocket PC theme to replace my boring black HTC default one for my Tilt. Here’s what I put together using ThemeGenCE. Enjoy!

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Download: Asuka Theme for Windows Mobile

So I’ve been having this bug lately with Oracle SQL Developer…

It started because the SQL Studio that comes with SQL Server 2005 *blows*.  It appears to be written in managed code, is a memory hog, and is slow as frozen dog shit.  So, given that I had been doing some oracle stuff and had SQL Developer sitting on my system, I decided to use that.  For awhile, all was good, and right with the world.

Then some ass in IT decided to move all of our dev databases from servername to servername\servername2005.  I tried to go in and reconfigure my servers in SQL Developer only to find that there was no way to specify the instance name for SQL Server connections using the jtds driver.

I googled this, and found a workaround which was to use 1433;instance=instancename in the port box.  This allowed me to connect, but most of the tables were missing.  So I went back to using SQL server’s shitty utility to get my work done.

I fired up SQL Developer again today to get some oracle work done and it had an update for the jtds driver, so I decided to give it a try again.  Still nothing, but I was renewed in my search for a solution.  I finally found one…instead of 1433;instance=instancename in the port box, I used 1433/databasename;instance=instancename in there.  Now all my tables show up just fine.

Sanity once again restored.

Just saw this one…