subst used to work absolutely fine until windows 7 (possibly even XP I think) when it stopped persisting across reboots
Groovy – unable to resolve class
I have a groovy script that I'm writing and I'm trying to link to another groovy "library" that I've written. My script fails with "unable to resolve class".
Reordering pages in LIFERAY forms
I'm going to go through the process I followed to work out how to resolve this but the "TLDR" answer is that you need to manipulate the JSON that represents your form...
Spring / ZUUL – Failed to introspect annotated methods
I really struggled to find anything about the error around the internets and the solution was so simple...
Sourcetree stuck on POST (chunked)
When pushing large files up to BitBucket (git in general?) Sourcetree gets stuck on the POST command. The solution is quite a simple one...
Turning off Windows 10 ads
While I totally appreciate that I was gifted Windows 10 for free by Microsoft, I did not appreciate, however, how badgered I'd be by ads.
Failure to install / update ruby gems
Problem: While trying to update ruby gems: gem update I ran into the following error: SSL_connect returned=1 errno=0 state=SSLv3 read server certificate B: certificate verify failed I'd recently installed a new certificate so I assumed it was that. However after a lot of hunting around it turns out that there was an SSL certificate update …
Can’t connect to NAS drive – Win 10
Problem: Since upgrading one of my machines to Windows 10 from Windows 7 I've been able to connect to any of the NAS drives on my home network. When attempting to access one of the drives via explorer I was presented with the following error message: For search engines: \\nas_drive is not accessible. You might …
PostgreSQL – Casting integer to interval
Problem: So you have an integer value or field in a table and it represents a period of time, say minutes for example, and you want to interpret and use that value as an interval for the purposes of datetime manipulation; how do you do it? Solution: All testing was carried out on PG 9.3.5. …
piggly trace- invalid multibyte escape
Background: After installing piggly (see here for instructions) I had to remove the latest version of piggly due to this issue: gem uninstall piggly and I thus installed version 1.2.1 gem install piggly -v '1.2.1' Problem: After installing v 1.2.1 I attempted to run piggly trace: piggly trace And was confronted with the following error: C:/Ruby/Ruby21-x64/lib/ruby/2.1.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:126:in …