Visual Studio 2010 Shell Required by VB6
Although they haven’t changed in years, I’m still responsible for a couple Visual Basic 6 apps. My development environment worked great under Windows 8.1, but now that 8.1 is out …
Structure of COM Error Codes
A 2013 comment on this StackOverflow question was enlightening: by converting a long decimal error (in this case 2147942667) to hex (0x8007010B), you can break out the actual error code …
April 2017 Monthly Rollup Breaks VB6 App
I maintain a client-server database app written in VB6 that uses ADO and COM+/DCOM. After installing the “April, 2017 Security Monthly Quality Rollup,” the VB6 app crashes in msado15.dll and …
Changing the Passenger Standalone Log Level
I’m trying to debug an issue with Passenger Standalone 4.0.53 and had a hard time figuring out how to increase the log level. It turns out you have to create …
Manage delayed_job on Elastic Beanstalk
With huge thanks to this post by Daniel Viklund, I want to share some notes and code about how I am managing delayed_job on a Rails 3.2.16 app deployed on …
WinInit.exe Stealing Port 5000
On a Server 2012 R2 machine, I couldn’t figure out why WiniInit.exe, which loads at Windows startup, was using port 5000, which I wanted to use for an application. My …
SQL 2000 Management from Windows 8.1
I maintain a legacy application running on SQL 2000 under Server 2003. I’m migrating my VB6 development environment from XP to 64-bin Windows 8.1. I wanted to continue using SQL …
AWS invalid literal for int() with base 8: ‘493’
Working on an AWS Elastic Beanstalk deployment, I’m using a .config file in my project’s .ebextensions folder to create and upload a file (see the Development Duide). The deployment fails …
Connect to Postgres on EC2 using pgAdmin
A few quick notes on connecting to a Postgres database running on an Amazon EC2 instance using pgAdmin with its built-in SSH tunneling option.
Woohoo! 2000 Points on StackOverflow
I post most of my development questions and answers on StackOverflow, where you get points if people like your posts. Woohoo, I just hit 2000 points! All this means is …