Posts Tagged ‘error’

android.process.acore has stopped unexpectedly

Oct 1 2011 · Android

This started popping up in my existing AVD after I updated my Android SDK packages:

android.process.acore has stopped unexpectedly error message

Another reason to hate the Android emulator. *sigh*
Not sure what broke, but thankfully doesn’t it occur in newly created AVDs.

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CSV file detected as SYLK file in Excel

May 19 2011 · Random

Working on some CSV export code and encountered this weird error when opening the CSV file in Excel,

Excel has detected that 'test.csv' is a SYLK file, but cannot load it. Either the file has errors or it is not a SYLK file format. Click OK to try to open the file in a different format.

The file was certainly a CSV file; I had no clue what an SYLK file was.

The issue, as I discovered here, is due to the first 2 letters in the file being “ID” (which was the name of the first column); change this to something else (e.g. “Id”) and the file loads correctly without any warnings or errors.

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PHP session_start() “Node no longer exists”

Jun 15 2010 · PHP

I stumbled upon this error earlier today as I attempted to store the value of a SimpleXMLElement as a session variable. I was able to narrow down the issue thanks to this post on bytes.com.

According to a user post on the PHP site, this occurs because SimpleXML returns a reference to an object containing the node value, and you can’t store a reference as a session variable. The value must be dereferenced and copied which can be done by casting.

// Bad! $storageBoxSize = $xml->data->storage_box_size;

// Good! $storageBoxSize = (int)$xml->data->storage_box_size;

I find myself hating loosely-typed languages more and more.

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