Office 365 ActiveSync fail, again
When Office 365 launched the mobile server address was m.outlook.com. This was a great address: easy to remember, pretty short, etc. A couple months ago my phone stopped syncing my mail. I went to the Office 365 forums and found that for some reason m.outlook.com was now broken and everybody had to switch to an address found by going into Options -> See All Options -> Settings for POP, IMAP, and SMTP access… Mine was pod51009.outlook.com. Then last night it went down again. I checked…
Silverlight 5 + Internet Explorer 9 using old Content-Type from POST in a subsequent GET
We’ve been running into a super annoying problem at work. After our Silverlight application makes it’s login POST the next GET that we send fails with a NotFoundException. This only happens when using the Silverlight 5 runtime and only happens in Internet Explorer 9. I have tested now with Silverlight 4 as well as Chrome, Firefox, Opera and Safari, and IE9/SL5 is the only bad combination. Here are the headers of our login POST: POST /login HTTP/1.1 Accept: application/xml Referer: http://localhost:8080/censored.xap?timestamp=1326148328000 Accept-Language: en-CA Content-Length: 38…
Canadian investing made lazy
It’s Easy One of the most common complaints that I hear about investing is that it’s too complicated and that people don’t have time to learn about how to do it. The good thing is, it pays to be lazy in investing! Canadian Capitalist – Lazy Man’s Portfolio Almost every stock or mutual fund will lose to it’s respective index. The concept of the “lazy” portfolio is just to buy something as similar to the index as possible. This way you will go up and…