Author Archives: Chris C

Installing Synergy Update

Posted on January 12, 2012 by Chris C

This replaces my previous install instructions for Synergy. With the latest Synergy 1.4.5 Beta release it’s even easier to install on the Mac because you no longer need to install QSynergy. Just a reminder that I am running Windows 7 … Continue reading →

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Kids Thinking Outside the Box – Planning

Posted on January 4, 2012 by Chris C

My daughter’s classmate to his teacher: “My plans are unpredictable.” Perfect saying for a T-shirt.

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Installing Ruby on Rails 3.1 on Mac OS X 10.6 Notes

Posted on December 7, 2011 by Chris C

My notes for installing Ruby on Rails on 3.1 on Mac OS X 10.6.  This is not a tutorial or a how-to, just the notes I took as I tried to get Ruby on Rails up and running. 1) By … Continue reading →

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New Version of Mini-Compressor Released

Posted on November 29, 2011 by Chris C

We’ve just released a new version of Mini-Compressor that fixes an annoying install bug.  As usual you can download the new version via the Downloads page. More information about the release can be found here.

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Moving Pains

Posted on September 29, 2011 by Chris C

Yesterday, September 28, we physically relocated our website in cyberspace. My apologies if you had trouble viewing the website yesterday during the move. We ran into some trouble with setting up our forwarding address and some people got sent to … Continue reading →

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Share a Keyboard Between a PC and a MacBook

Posted on July 18, 2011 by Chris C

I’ve been developing the Saturday MP website, which was developed using Ruby on Rails, on Windows using Rad Rails.  Unfortunately developing on Ruby on Rails on Windows has a couple drawbacks: It’s hard to install Ruby and/or Rails on Windows.  … Continue reading →

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Don’t Mix your Static and DHCP Addresses

Posted on June 17, 2011 by Chris C

I was working on some new servers that were soon going to be production servers.  While working on them I noticed that they didn’t have static IP addresses.  Being the good looking proactive guy that I am I sent a … Continue reading →

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Display a Section only on the First Page in a Crystal Report

Posted on May 20, 2011 by Chris C

To display a section only on the first page but not on other pages right-click the section in question and choose Section Expert. Click the x-2 button to the right Suppress (No Drill down) and add the following formula: Now … Continue reading →

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Visual Cut Doesn’t Like to Waste Space

Posted on May 18, 2011 by Chris C

Just a heads up that Visual Cut is really picky about command line arguments.  Visual Cut does a bunch of stuff with Crystal Reports but in my current project it is just used to print reports on demand.  The printing … Continue reading →

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Cheque or Credit Card?

Posted on April 8, 2011 by Chris C

Once upon a time I received an e-mail with some questions about Mini-Compressor.  I answered the fellow’s questions and he seemed happy with my answers.  Unfortunately he didn’t buy a copy of Mini-Compressor and after a bit he faded from … Continue reading →

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