Flex-Rails: Non-Debug Flash Player caches, so fails to update list – status...
Regrading Flex/Ruby on Rails Programming: And then just when everything was working in the debug Flash Player, I decided to fire-up IE & run the application in Flash Player in non-debug mode, and...
View ArticleFlex-Rails:protect_from_forgery problem with Rails 2.1 produces ioError 2032
Update for Rails 2.2: According to the release notes: “Request forgery protection has been tightened up to apply to HTML-formatted content requests only” in Rails 2.2 — I have not tested this, but it...
View ArticleFlash Player Bug with RoR 2:HTTPService fires fault by http status code 201
Regarding Flexible Rails: Flex 3 on Rails 2, by Peter Armstring, and its Forum This relates to a previous thread, but the solution is buried deep within the thread. There is a bug in Flash Player,...
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Ruby on Rails 2.3 and PostgreSQL on Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 LTS and 10.04 LTS Server
Update: A few changes for 10.04 LTS, using PostgreSQL 8.4 When running rails (other than rails –version), I got the error “No such file to load: net/https”. That was fixed by installing...
View ArticleKonica Minolta Twain Driver Not Recognized
I recently had a problem getting the Konica Minolta Twain Driver for the C253 scanner (among others) to be recognized by the twain device manager, and thus it was not listed as one of the twain devices...
View ArticleiMovie '09 Error – Audio Exporting Problem
Apple recently updated its iLife suite (including iMovie) from ’08 to ’09. I haven’t done much with movie creation, but wanted to make a short video demonstration of my 3 dimensional breast...
View ArticleUbuntu Server Configuration
A few random notes. To start the iptables rules for the firewall on startup, first, create the firewall script, adding the iptables rules one by one, and save the rules with: iptables-save >...
View ArticleDreamweaver Secure FTP (SFTP) Configuration
The Dreamweaver configuration documentation for “Secure FTP” is poor to non-existant. I am not talking about how to check Dreamweaver’s “Use Secure FTP (SFTP)” checkbox (which is trivial, but for which...
View ArticleNeopost IJ25 Postage Meter Pricing Scam
I just got off the phone with Neopost, whose postage meter I have been using for a number of years. I guess I never put together the true cost of using it. The reason for my call was that my postage...
View ArticleWindows Communication Foundation 3.5 Unleashed Errors
I am reading this book; it is very well written, and the people who wrote it are obviously very smart. Unfortunately, it is chock full of technical errors. I have wasted hours trying to get the...
View ArticleEmbarcadero C++ Builder – Sending UnicodeString via COM truncates string to half
CB2009 defines a BSTR as a wchar_t*, which is the type returned by c_str() when UNICODE is set. Therefore, if you call a COM function which expects a BSTR with UnicodeString.c_str(), the compiler...
View ArticleUsing IMallocSpy to check for BSTR memory leaks in Embarcadero C++ Builder...
IMallocSpy is a COM interface provided to check for memory leaks using the IMalloc interface, as used in allocating BSTR’s. I was recently trying to figure out which CB2009 objects would release the...
View ArticleUsing external SATA / eSATA hard drive with Scientific Atlanta EXPLORER 8300...
The hard drive that worked was the Toshiba PH3100U-1EXB 1 terabyte external hard drive (available right now at Fry’s Electronics for $99!) The one that did not work was a two terabyte dual drive raid...
View ArticleDevArt.com UniDAC in C++ Builder 2010 to access SQL Server Compact Edition
DevArt makes a number of data access products for Delphi/C++ Builder as well as .NET . I downloaded a trial of the UniDAC Universal Data Access Components for VCL. Unfortunately, the documentation is...
View ArticleYealink SIP-T38G Openvpn VPN not functional
Update — the nice people at Voipsupply.com got me a firmware upgrade (38.0.0.70) which is not posted anywhere on the Yealink website. Although it does cause the phone to upload the vpn configuration...
View ArticleConfiguring AudioCodes MP-112 VoIP Gateway for Fax with Asterisk
I am setting up an Asterisk/Elastix system to work with a Cox PRI circuit, and I needed a gateway for managing faxes. I had previously used the AudioCodes MP-202, which was fairly easy to set up, but...
View ArticleCompiling THtmlViewer to use in C++ Builder XE
The THtmlViewer component is a component that displays HTML in a Delphi/C++ Builder form. It is also used by the outstanding TRichView component for importing HTML. It is available under the MIT...
View ArticleParallels Desktop VS VMWare Fusion – deleting multiple snapshots
I have used both Parallels Desktop and VMWare Fusion to run Windows, largely for Windows software development, on a Mac, over the past several years. There have been a number of reviews comparing...
View ArticleInstalling Gnostice eDocEngine in C++ Builder with TRichView
I have been using the TRichView RTF editor in C++ Builder XE. I needed PDF creation for my project, and had been planning to use the Gnostice eDocEngine product, which has a component for exporting...
View ArticleTClientDataSet, InternalCalc, AutoIncrement, and Key Violations
Embarcadero’s C++ Builder/Delphi/RAD Studio product includes a TClientDataSet, which allows the programmer to operate an in-memory data table. It is part of a larger functionality for data transfer...
View ArticleGnostice eDocEngine does not work with C++ Builder XE3
I have been using Gnostice’s pdf generation products for a while now, using C++ Builder XE. Recently, I wanted to move to the current version of C++ Builder, version XE3. I installed a new version of...
View ArticleC++ Builder XE3 – Declaration terminated incorrectly System.ZLib.hpp
Using Fast-Reports Enterprise edition, just dropping an frxReportServer component on a blank form and compiling, the XE3 compiler chokes with the following: Error System.ZLib.hpp E2040 Declaration...
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