Installing a gem locally is extremelly easy if you follow the steps below. I was recently in a situation where I had to upgrade a gem quickly to resolve a bug but the latest version of the gem located on http://gems.rubyforge.org was older than what was necessary. You need to locate the .gem file for…
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In an attempt to promote as much community as possible I would suggest removing the Website field for when people post comments to your WordPress blog. In this scenario below the Mandingo Theme is being used however it is just as easy to remove the Website field from the default field as well. If people…
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I had an existing local branch that I had done some commits to and wanted to create a remote branch on origin so that I could check it out to other local branches on different machines. The current version of Git (1.6.1.x at the time of this writing), doesn’t seem to have an elegant way…
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When upgrading from SAP Business Objects XI R2 service pack 1 to service pack 2, I got the following error in the Java runtime console when trying to create new or use existing Web Intelligence reports: load: class com.businessobjects.wp.tc.TCMain not found. java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.businessobjects.wp.tc.TCMain at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source) at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)…
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When doing quality testing on websites it is beneficial to not only have all of the latest major browsers for testing (including Internet Explorer, Safari, Mozilla FireFox, Opera, and Google Chrome), but also to have older versions of some browsers installed especially older versions of Internet Explorer. Internet Explorer is notorious for making huge changes to the…
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Over the past couple of years I have been using the same Outlook files which have over time built up a huge cache of invalid e-mail addresses, e-mail address that are no longer used, and various other e-mail addresses I want to remove from the e-mail address cache. The cache that I am talking about…
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I wrote a previous post regarding saving messages sent via POP3 accounts into Gmail’s sent items yesterday and it can be read here. To expand on that there is another option to accomplish the same goal which is to set your outgoing mail server as smtp.gmail.com and use your Gmail account settings to authenticate. This…
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In tune with consolidating all of my email accounts to Gmail I wanted to make sure that any email sent from my machine showed up in my Gmail “Sent Items” folder. I still have multiple POP accounts which can actually be configured on Gmail now however the messages show as “account@gmail.com sent on behalf of…
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Recently I have combined numerous email accounts into one Google Gmail account. To manage these messages on my local Windows XP machine I have chosen Outlook 2007 since I already have the MS Office 2007 suite installed. Below there are instructions for how to remove deleted messages from view after they are deleted in an…
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