How to show line numbers in Visual Studio 2010

I’ve been using Visual Studio since forever, yet it always takes me a while to remember how to show line numbers.  It’s especially hard to remember after a fresh install of Visual Studio.  Assuming you have it installed and open, here’s how to display line numbers in your code.

  1. Click Tools in the menu bar
  2. Options
  3. Expand Text Editor ( in the popup window )
  4. Click ‘All Languages’
  5. Check the ‘Line numbers’ box under the Display heading ( on the right )
  6. Click OK
  7. Happy Happy Joy Joy!

How to Display Line numbers in Visual Studio 2010

EMERGENT COLLECTIVE released, the community rejoices!

I’m happy to announce my band The Compilers have been included on the new EMERGENT COLLECTIVE ONE cd. This compilation is made up of developers in the Adobe community who are also involved with making music.  Go download it now, it’s free for all!

11 tracks from Adobe community members who also make music

Download this free album now!

A huge thanks goes out to creator of this compilation Joseph Labrecque.  Thank you for making this compilation and thank you for letting The Compilers submit our song ‘Sleep Tick v2′.  Be sure to read Joseph’s comments about the compilation he so graciously put out for all to enjoy.

I am going to 360 Flex DC, and so should you

I’m happy to announce I received my Golden Ticket to speak at the next 360 Flex conference in Washington DC.  The conference will be held at the Hilton DC North Gaithersburg, September 19 – 22, 2010.

I am speaking at 360 Flex DCI’m going to 360 Flex DC, and so should you

I spoke at the last 360|Flex in San Jose, but I’m already more excited for the DC conference, and here’s why.

  1. I’m speaking about the most exciting part of the Flash Platform, AIR2
  2. Jesse vs. Jesse ( Flash vs Flex throwdown )
  3. It’s in Washington DC
  4. My band The Compilers will be giving a lunch talk, as well as playing live at one of the parties
  5. There is talk of Duanne Nickull’s band 22nd Century playing ( hopefully Sean ‘the flex guy’ too )
  6. Doug McCune is giving the opening Keynote speech on Monday
  7. I get to hang out with the Flex community

If you haven’t been to a 360 Flex conference yet I highly recommend it.  If you still need help deciding, here are a few conference questions for you.

  1. Do you currently work with or have any interest in Adobe Flex?
  2. Have you attended a 360 Flex conference yet?
  3. Do you want to meet the community loudmouths you’re already following on Twitter?
  4. Have you seen who is speaking at 360 Flex DC?
  5. Have you ever heard The Compilers play live?
  6. Are you still reading this blog post?

The last 360 Flex I spoke at was in San Jose and it rocked.  The city of San Jose bored me to tears, but I felt like I was living inside my twitter feed for three days.  My presentation was on the final day of 360 Flex, so I spent most of the conference preparing, and sitting in a few sessions here and there.  I spent almost half of my time in San Jose working and still met 10-15 of my twitter buddies, not to mention all the new contacts I met.  In a nutshell, if you attend a 360 Flex conference, you will meet the community.  In fact, you’d have to try pretty hard to not meet the Flex community.

If this sounds up your alley, go ahead and register to take advantage of the early adopter ticket price of $450.  I’m not sure when the ticket price will go up to $599, but I know it will so act fast.  If you make it to DC, be sure to find me and introduce yourself.  I promise it will be a good time.

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How I removed iOS4 from my iPhone 3G

PLEASE BACKUP YOUR iPhone BEFORE REMOVING iOS4!  I lost everything on my phone prior to removing iOS4 and didn’t think about saying this originally.

In case you need help removing iOS4 from your iPhone 3G, here are the steps that I followed to downgrade my iPhone 3G to OS 3.1.3.  Before we get going, I’m not taking credit for these instructions since this is a cleaned up version of this MacRumors forum post.  Shout out to my buddy Tony Rodgers for sending me the original link.

Required Downloads

Before you get to the steps, be sure to download these two files first.

Restore iPhone 3G to OS 3.1.3

  1. Connect your iPhone, open iTunes, then click your iPhone to go to the Summary screen.
  2. While holding down Alt ( OSX ) or Shift ( windows ), click the Restore button.  If you held the correct key when clicking restore, you should get a File Open prompt.
  3. Select iPhone1,2_3.1.3_7E18_Restore.ipsw that you downloaded earlier and let iTunes do it’s work.
  4. After iTunes tries to verify the update, it should throw an error.  This error is normal, so disregard even though iTunes has left your iPhone 3G in restore mode.  Close iTunes.
  5. With your iPhone still connected, open blackra1n and click “Make it rain”.
  6. Manually power cycle your iPhone 3G if it doesn’t restart automatically for you.

That’s all there is to it.  I know these steps work because it’s exactly what I did on my iPhone.  The last part of the uninstall is pretty hairy since I wasn’t able to close iTunes without unplugging my phone.  Also, when I ran blackra1n, my phone never rebooted on it’s own.  The screen went black and I just unplugged the iPhone and forced a restart.  When my iPhone booted up, I was back on 3.1.3.

I hope this helps somebody out because iOS4 on an iPhone 3G is horrible.