Recently I needed to change my WeBrick’s application root from /public to something else. If you need to have it running under a different directory, all of your routing to public stylesheets, images, etc. will have errors.
SQL Developer is a free tool from Oracle which is great for database querying and extraction and the best thing is that it doesn’t just support Oracle it also supports Access, MySQL and SQL Server. Another hidden feature for all the novice SQL programmers is the Query Builder (similar to Access and SQL Server), so I thought I would do a quick post to go over the features of Query Builder.
So I just picked up a new laptop, the Dell Studio 15″ which looks and performs great but as I’m in a brick walled apartment I had issues with streaming video over a wireless connection from my Linux file server. The symptoms were stuttering, hitching and skipping but with VLC I was able to fix this issue!
You would think after the announcement of a new Star Trek movie and talks of sequels Paramount would give StarTrek.com some resources to keep chuggin along? Well after Paramount decided it would dismiss the great web masters of StarTrek.com we have seen a once great source of information neglected and left to rot.
I thought it would be good to go over some resources for all the latest and past Trek news that I use and hopefully have you also remove StarTrek.com from your bookmarks.
After working in the ‘analyst’ field for a while now I have come accross a lot of tools which can be helpful to squeezing that extra piece of data out or creating a whiz bang report. Here is a list of free tools which should help you along the way!
Here’s how you can setup debugging with your Ruby environment using Netbeans 6.1. Netbeans 6.1 comes with a debugger installed, but only with JRuby, this is how to set it up to work with Ruby.
Coming from a SQL programming background you might find it difficult trying to adapt the AND / OR operators to your Excel formulas, so here is a method that I use to solve this problem.
A lot of people have been trying to download a copy of Windows Home Server 2008 but (like myself) could only find the 120 day trial available by ordering the CD to be delivered via snail mail. So here is how you can download an evaluation copy and avoid the wait!
After installing Vista I had some issues with my HTPC (Home Theater PC); whenever the HTPC ‘awoke’ from being ‘asleep’ (sleep mode) it was locked, even when I had supplied no password for my user! So here is a quick tutorial on how you can disable this option in Vista.
The other day I was handed an Access database, after waiting a couple of minutes for it to open I was dumbfounded with the monster it had grown into (check out the screen shots below). The funny thing was that this database somehow produced a report which a lot of ‘important’ people used and after the builder departed it was left up to me to get it back up and running.
So to prevent any future mishaps here are some tips that I use to keep my Access database organized…
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