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- Installing Ruby 2.0.0 with RVM and Homebrew on Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion
This is a tutorial on how to install Ruby 2.0.0 on Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion. 1. Install Xcode and the Command Line Tools If you don't have it installed I suggest you install Xcode from the Mac App Store and install the command line tool ...
Blog entry - Christopher Kaukis - 03/14/2013 - 10:19am - 22 comments - 0 attachments
- Running a Jekyll Blog Using Github Pages on Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion
In my last post I described installing Ruby on Mac OS X with RVM . The main reason I wanted to do this was to run a Jekyll Blog using GitHub Pages. So, in this post I will guide you through the process to get a GitHub Pages Blog up and going. 1. ...
Blog entry - Christopher Kaukis - 03/12/2013 - 11:11am - 1 comment - 0 attachments
- Long Running Tasks in ASP.NET
Update: code examples posted, see below. Sometimes users require functionality that takes a long time, and as software developers it's our job to make sure these tasks get done in a user-friendly manner. Client applications (console/window ...
Blog entry - Blake Anderton - 02/24/2010 - 5:42pm - 8 comments - 1 attachment
- Mysterious HTTP Authentication Required for Reports
A few weeks ago we had a very odd problem our LANDBOSS nightly build site. Every time we tried to access the reports it would asks us for authentication. This would be the HTTP authentication request that shows the browser's standard login m ...
Blog entry - Blake Anderton - 11/16/2010 - 12:16pm - 6 comments - 0 attachments
- Internet Explorer ignoring CSS files
Like most web developers, I do most of my development work in one browser (in my case, Firefox) and then do cross browser checks after I've finished my work. One issue that I recently saw crop up was IE ignoring cerrtain stylesheets for no apparent reas ...
Blog entry - Sean Corrales - 02/14/2011 - 11:46am - 3 comments - 0 attachments
- Simple Long Polling in WCF - Server
Recently I've been working on a RESTful HTTP server in WCF for a really cool project that isn't public yet, but should be soon. I say RESTful, but it's not religiously so; more accurately its REST-like. Essentially it's as basic as can be so ...
Blog entry - Blake Anderton - 11/16/2010 - 12:17pm - 16 comments - 1 attachment
- Virtual Piano Chords and Scales as a jQuery plugin
Years and years ago I was trying to understand how chords and scales related to each other visually and mathematically. I came across a lot of informative posts, but by far the most helpful app I came across was a virtual piano chord/scale creator, by ...
Blog entry - Javod Khalaj - 09/09/2012 - 4:27pm - 4 comments - 0 attachments
- How to Execute and Monitor an Agent Job Using T-SQL in SQL Server 2005/2008
In SQL Server 2005 and 2008 it's possible to start an agent job with T-SQL syntax. This is frequently useful. For example, you may have a job that you'd like to have an outside application invoke. Jobs can also be used to execute SSIS packages. Using T- ...
Blog entry - Brian Bickell - 01/15/2010 - 11:37am - 14 comments - 0 attachments
- MySQL - Fixing an Illegal mix of Collation
Mixing Collations While creating an ETL process for a Client, I ran into the following MySQL error: "Illegal mix of collations (latin1_swedish_ci,IMPLICIT) and (latin1_general_ci,IMPLICIT) for operation '='" A quick google search resulted a ...
Blog entry - Ben Bausili - 11/16/2010 - 12:16pm - 8 comments - 0 attachments
- SQL Server: The index "[IndexName]" on table "[TableName]" cannot be reorganized because page level locking is disabled.
If you've managed production database servers for any amount of time, you may have run into this error message in your maintenance plan logs. "The index "[IndexName]" on table "[TableName]" cannot be reorganized because page level locking is disabled. ...
Blog entry - Brian Bickell - 11/16/2010 - 8:14pm - 4 comments - 0 attachments














