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So I ran into an interesting issue today when attempting to get Golden Retriever (GR) to connect to a Trimble R1 device. I would pair the R1 to the phone and then attempt to connect to it from within GR using the “Bluetooth GPS” button, but nothing would happen. No points would be pulled. I checked the logs coming from the phone and I was getting a “bt socket closed, read return: -1” error each time GR tried to use the Bluetooth serial connection to read from the R1.

I personally do not write in PowerShell often but sometimes PowerShell is the best language for the job. For example, backing up your Sage 50 folder from your Windows server to a folder on your Network Attached Storage(NAS) at regular intervals with Windows Task Scheduler. I also take full image backups regularly of the Windows server with Iperius in case the entire server goes down, but having regular backups of just the Sage 50 files allows us to quickly roll back any Sage database changes.

I have a client that has QuickBooks database manager installed on a Windows server to allow multi-user access to the company data file. Everything was working great up until recently so as a test I decided to set up a Fedora server that would run the Linux version of the QuickBooks database manager and test hosting their company data files from it instead. That way we can rule out if the issues they were encountering are being caused by the Windows server.

The new versions of the Golden Retriever app have been officially released! I am so happy to finally have these released so I can start working on other modules for the GR platform. Except now I’m looking at Flutter and a part of me wants to re-write the app in Dart #SoftwareDevProblems To go along with the app releases I also did a quick revamp of the GR website. The old site was built with Wordpress and had an old theme that wasn’t going to work well with the new version of Wordpress.

Man is McDonalds coffee good! Saturday mornings are becoming so great again. Now that our youngest boy is 4 our morning routine is so chill. The boys were awake around 6:30am but they know to hangout in their rooms until 7am and play quietly or read. At 7 I quietly go into their rooms and let them know they can go downstairs and play with Lego and watch PBS. Seth turns on the TV himself and they hangout in the TV room while I go work out and take a shower.

I guess it was only inevitable, I ended up catching the flu from the rest of my family at the end of last week and spent last weekend recovering. Then I had a few days this week to play catchup and then caught a nasty head cold. As tonight is our second last curling game of the season I am going to be loading up on the Dristan to skip us to victory!

I woke up this morning with a migraine and it would not go away. It has been almost a year since I have had such pain and light sensitivity which must mean it is caused by something seasonal. In the past I would blame a sudden change in humidity as that has usually accompanied my migraines but this year we have been entrenched in a cold snap for weeks so…. ¯\(ツ)/¯

Today I pushed out some new code to Work Tyme to add in something I am kicking myself for not thinking of sooner, how to deal with employee terminations. One of my clients recently asked how they can mark an employee as a former employee but still maintain their information in Work Tyme. I had just assumed an account admin would simply change the employee’s password so they could no longer log in.

Right before I sat down to write this post I had to clean chocolate Boost out of a brown shag carpet. Oh, and before the Boost ended up on the carpet it had been inside the stomach of a very sick four year old. Everyone in my house currently has the flu but me. Which likely means I am just tempting fate at this point. But as long as my body holds out until Erin and the boys are better, that is all I can ask.

In an effort to clean up my registrar account today I set https://vtigermods.com to not renew. I have had this domain for some time and I really could have pulled the plug on it sooner but I was one of my first websites so I always just kept it online. Way back in 2010 my workplace was about to make the move to a new CRM/Shipping software. They had previously used two separate services and were wanting to switch to a single piece of software.