Author Archives: Chris C

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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What to do if Norton Incorrectly Thinks Your Product is Harmful

Posted on March 23, 2011 by Chris C

A while ago I got an e-mail from a customer that had just bought Mini-Compressor (which I think is the best image compression software in the world but I’m a bit biased) but was getting warning from Norton when he … Continue reading →

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Coming… Later Part 2

Posted on March 15, 2011 by Chris C

I was just talked into and/or talked my friends into purchasing Magicka.  That reminded me I had posted Part 1 of “How the Gold Master was Delayed” and I should look for Part 2. It’s nice to see a humorous … Continue reading →

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SQL Server Dependency Query

Posted on February 9, 2011 by Chris C

You’ve been staring at the SQL Server view vwCustomersGH for the past hour.  The view is part of a project you just started maintaining and like many views and stored procedures in the project you are sure it’s not being … Continue reading →

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Kids Thinking Outside the Box – Who to Invite to Your Birthday?

Posted on November 30, 2010 by Chris C

My 5 year old daughter is endlessly planning her birthday parties, even 11 months and 30 days in advance.  Her recent planning session focused on who she should invite.  After going over her list of friends she paused and then … Continue reading →

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NUnit Error “Attempted to access an unloaded AppDomain”

Posted on November 11, 2010 by Chris C

I was plagued by the above error but found a workaround, at least one that worked for me.  It’s a one line change to the NUnit config file.  Note, this the actual NUnit config file that is installed in C:Program … Continue reading →

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