Can’t Sign Code after Changing Windows Domain
I recently created a new Windows domain for my network with the same name as the old domain. I migrated the profile on my XP development machine using the very …
MS DTC Can’t Connect after Server 2012 Transition
I recently transitioned from SBS 2008 to a clean install of Server 2012 Essentials. Most things went smoothly, but one issue took a lot of work to resolve: on an …
Convert a Select Drop-Down Box to an Autocomplete in Rails
I created a nice select drop-down box in Ruby on Rails 3.2.8 using SimpleForm 2.0.2 and Twitter Bootstrap 2.0.3, with authentication from CanCan 1.6.8. Since there are quite a few …
Postgres Error: Trigger is a System Trigger
All I wanted to do was test a little JavaScript. I’m working on my Ruby on Rails app: Rails 3.2.8, Rspec 2.11.0, Capybara 1.1.2, and Postgres 8.4. I added an …
Installing Ruby 1.9.3 under Ubuntu 10.04 LTS using RVM
Today when I tried to use rvm to install Ruby 1.9.3, I got errors referring me to make.log and make.install.log:
Formatting Time Zones and Datetime in Rails 3
Here is my current approach for formatting time zone and date/time values. I’m using Rails 3.1.3, SimpleForm 2.0.1, and Twitter Bootstrap 2.0.1. I had some trouble finding examples of how …
Set Up PostgreSQL for Rails 3.1
Heroku requires PostgreSQL for production and recommends it for development. Here is the process I worked out for installing PostgreSQL 8.4 and setting up a Rails 3.1 project. I’m working …
Install Rails 3.1 for the Rails Tutorial
I’ve been working through Michael Hartl’s Ruby on Rails Tutorial. I had some trouble in chapter 13 installing the released version of Rails 3.1.0, so I thought I would post …
Copy an IIS7 Application Pool
Today I needed to create a .NET v4.0 version of an existing application pool. The old app pool was installed by a vendor install and uses a custom identity that …
Install Microsoft Document Explorer
If you ask Visual WebGui 6.4’s installer to include documentation in the install, it looks for Microsoft Document Explorer. But Document Explorer is no longer included in Visual Studio 2010 …