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Month: November 2010

Exception Handling in Ruby – a Little Surprise

Posted on November 30, 2010November 1, 2021

I’ve got a rake task that includes a section where I do something like this: begin # Do some things rescue => ex puts “Error: #{ex}” end </pre> I know that typically you want to be specific about the errors that you catch, but in this case I just want to move on. The things…

apachectl stopped working after Mac OSX 10.6.5

Posted on November 23, 2010October 25, 2021

I noticed today when I tried to restart apache on my Mac that it had stopped working and gave me this error: /usr/sbin/apachectl: line 82: ulimit: open files: cannot modify limit: Invalid argument Luckily the world is a big place and someone had already fixed the problem. Just open up /usr/sbin/apachectl and change (around line…

SQL2005 or higher is required for sp_expressmaint

Posted on November 22, 2010October 25, 2021

I don’t have to work a lot with SQL Server these days, but this evening I noticed that the maintenance tasks on one of my servers was not running. I went to the command line to run the task and got ‘SQL2005 or higher is required for sp_expressmaint’. Turns out there is a bug in…

Virtual Host Configuration for WordPress on my Mac

Posted on November 3, 2010November 1, 2021

I mainly post this so I don’t forget, but someone else might find it useful. I always forget how to configuration the virtual host on my local Apache so that WordPress will run right. (I don’t like to use MAMP – don’t ask why). Note that ‘jbasdf’ is my username. Use your username in place…

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