This assumes you are on a Windows machine trying to remotely login to a Windows machine, but you need to use an SSH tunnel to get through the firewall. The overall idea is that you set up a port on the local computer to forward all traffic to a port on the remote computer. Then [...]

Every time I use gnuplot, I am amazed at how difficult it is to conjure up the simplest graphs, so when I finally get to the bottom of one, I’ll try to post the solution here as a reference for myself, and anyone else who might come looking. If you’re new to gnuplot, you might [...]

Today I tried installing MS SQL Server Management Studio Express and received the following error: TITLE: SQL Server Setup failure. —————————— SQL Server Setup has encountered the following error: Invoke or BeginInvoke cannot be called on a control until the window handle has been created.. —————————— BUTTONS: OK —————————— I searched around the internet and [...]

Today I installed SQL Server Management Studio Express (standalone) on a brand new Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 machine. After downloading the install from Microsoft and running it, I received the following error: “SQLManagementStudio_x64_ENU.exe is not a valid Win32 Application” I assumed I had some weird versioning issue, and read all kinds of blogs about [...]

Some quick notes on the basics. I’ll try to follow this up with another post soon on some of the particulars. Creating a new configuration: Build -> Configuration Manager In the drop down of current configurations, go all the way to the bottom and select “Add new…” You can choose to copy settings from an [...]

Over the past month I have been struggling with an install of Documentum Content Server 6.5 SP2 on Windows Server 2008 x64. Here is a summary of some of the problems I encountered and the eventual path I took. Support for Windows Server 2008 R2 In the official release notes, only Windows Server 2008 (not [...]

I recently setup an ASP.Net 3.5 web application on a new Windows 2008 R2 server with IIS 7 and ran into a few issues.  I will post about them all under the tag: “asp.net 3.5 with iis 7“. After setting up the file system and creating the application, I tried to load the default document [...]

I have been developing a strategy for deploying an ASP.Net Web Application (Visual Studio 2008, .NET 3.5) to staging servers, and to production.  In the process, I have encountered 3 products from Microsoft that almost sound synonymous to the untrained ear, but are very different and are designed for completely different purposes.  I wish that [...]

Each time a new project is started, there is always a discussion (or there should be!) of what guidelines should be used in design, naming conventions, etc. I typically like to defer to the standards given by the company that creates the language, and then define any differences. For the case of C# and .NET [...]

There are a few different ways to integrate Windows Active Directory (Domain) authentication with SVN. Specifically the two that seemed most promising were LDAP and SSPI, with SSPI looking the most straightforward, so that is the one that I will outline here. Include dependent modules First we need to include the apache modules we’ll be [...]