by Peter Connolly | Jun 28, 2011 | technology
Open Outlook 2007 If Email has not been started before, you’ll be given a walkthrough; cancel it, and follow these instructions. Note that menu options are show as a chain; so Tools->Options->Advanced would mean find the menu option Tools, then the menu or...
by Peter Connolly | Jun 27, 2011 | Ruby on Rails
It’s a bit of a common question (in the Ruby on Rails world, at least!). I came across this issue this morning when I copied an existing ThinkingSphinx yml file from a working system. Symptoms: Running rake ts:rebuild would rebuild the database, but would not...
by Peter Connolly | Jun 14, 2011 | featured, MySQL
One of a short series of posts listing useful MySQL commands that I use frequently when managing servers and databases. These come in useful when I don’t have access to Navicat, my favored tool for working with client databases. The assumption I make is that you...
by Peter Connolly | Jun 10, 2011 | featured, Ruby on Rails
When playing with Thinking Sphinx (the Ruby on Rails wrapper for the open source Sphinx search server), I decided to try to see if I could perform an injection attack on the server. Here’s the bad news: Yes, I could modify searches by changing the parameters...
by Peter Connolly | May 20, 2011 | featured, technology
Internet Explorer 6 isn’t going to go away. We wish it would, and so does Microsoft – but it won’t. And when it does, it’s big brother IE7 will be there to frustrate programmers for years to come. Until all that happens, we need to be able to...
