Let's take a look at what I've broken todayhttps://whatibroke.com/https://whatibroke.com/2025/07/09/using-a-usb-drive-for-a-swap-file-on-a-raspberrypi-zero-2/https://whatibroke.com/2025/07/09/using-a-usb-drive-for-a-swap-file-on-a-raspberrypi-zero-2/Here are all the commands required condensed into a single script (thanks Copilot): This is for a 1GB swap file (double the ram on the pi). However, you can increase…Wed, 09 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2024/05/24/setting-up-a-golang-web-server-on-ec2-with-a-free-ssl-cert-and-no-load-balancer/https://whatibroke.com/2024/05/24/setting-up-a-golang-web-server-on-ec2-with-a-free-ssl-cert-and-no-load-balancer/Create a new EC2 instance. This example was done on amazon-linux but I think it would probably be better to use ubuntu next time. If you do use ubuntu note that…Fri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2023/09/12/using-postman-with-net-grpc-endpoints/https://whatibroke.com/2023/09/12/using-postman-with-net-grpc-endpoints/Hey everyone, Just a quick post on how to use postman with a gRPC endpoint using .net core. Add the grpc reflection package to your project: Add to the container and…Tue, 12 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2023/09/08/system-io-ioexception-with-a-net-grpc-project-on-mac/https://whatibroke.com/2023/09/08/system-io-ioexception-with-a-net-grpc-project-on-mac/Hey everyone, I created a new gRPC project with Visual Studio on a Mac and ran into the following error when trying to run it: It turns out that Kestrel does not…Fri, 08 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2023/08/11/reset-usb-devices-on-raspberrypi-ubuntu/https://whatibroke.com/2023/08/11/reset-usb-devices-on-raspberrypi-ubuntu/Hey everyone, I ran into a small issue today on my RaspberryPi. Occasionally, when restarting scripts that utilised usb devices (lidar, arduino) the usb connections…Fri, 11 Aug 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2023/07/02/automatically-shutdown-a-raspberrypi-when-the-network-is-not-reachable/https://whatibroke.com/2023/07/02/automatically-shutdown-a-raspberrypi-when-the-network-is-not-reachable/Hi everyone, I’ve had a bit of an issue recently with my RaspberryPi disconnecting when I’m flooding the network with camera images. Unfortunately I’m using a dodgy…Sun, 02 Jul 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2023/06/23/hydroponics-robot-part-7-polygon-object-detection/https://whatibroke.com/2023/06/23/hydroponics-robot-part-7-polygon-object-detection/Hi everyone,It’s been a while since I’ve posted an update on the the hydroponics robot but I’m definitely still working on it! I’m currently working on aligning the…Fri, 23 Jun 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2023/05/04/hydroponics-robot-part-6-lane-navigation/https://whatibroke.com/2023/05/04/hydroponics-robot-part-6-lane-navigation/In this blog post, I will be sharing the latest progress I made on my hydroponics robot. I last left it with goal accuracy issues and the wheel tread falling off. I…Thu, 04 May 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2023/04/25/hydroponics-robot-part-4-nav2-goal-accuracy/https://whatibroke.com/2023/04/25/hydroponics-robot-part-4-nav2-goal-accuracy/Welcome back to the Hydroponics Robot project! In this update, I will be discussing some of the challenges I faced while trying to improve the navigation accuracy of…Tue, 25 Apr 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2023/04/22/hydroponics-robot-part-3-mapping-issues-continued/https://whatibroke.com/2023/04/22/hydroponics-robot-part-3-mapping-issues-continued/Welcome back to the third part of my series on building a hydroponics robot! In this blog post, I’ll continue discussing the mapping issues I encountered while trying…Sat, 22 Apr 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2023/04/19/hydroponics-robot-part-2-map-resolution/https://whatibroke.com/2023/04/19/hydroponics-robot-part-2-map-resolution/In my work with hydroponics robots, I recently faced challenges related to robot localization and map resolution. After consulting with ChatGPT, I discovered that the…Wed, 19 Apr 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2023/04/16/aquaponics-robot-part-1-troubleshooting-robot-localization-issues/https://whatibroke.com/2023/04/16/aquaponics-robot-part-1-troubleshooting-robot-localization-issues/I recently faced a challenge when testing the robot’s ability to navigate back and forth between two rows of pipes. Despite several attempts, the robot kept getting…Sun, 16 Apr 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2023/03/24/setting-the-initial-pose-using-config-in-nav2/https://whatibroke.com/2023/03/24/setting-the-initial-pose-using-config-in-nav2/While working through the articubots tutorials I have been setting my initial pose for nav2 manually using rviz2. It works but it can be a little tedious when testing…Fri, 24 Mar 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2023/01/09/centring-and-increasing-the-size-of-your-global-costmap-ros2-rviz2-and-nav2/https://whatibroke.com/2023/01/09/centring-and-increasing-the-size-of-your-global-costmap-ros2-rviz2-and-nav2/Hi everyone,I’ve been following the Articulated Robots tutorial series which has helped me to create a self navigating diff drive robot. One issue I ran into after…Mon, 09 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2023/01/07/nav2-localisation/https://whatibroke.com/2023/01/07/nav2-localisation/Hi everyone,I finally have my diffdrive robot navigating with waypoints using Nav2 and this great tutorial. However, while trying to use a saved map for localization…Sat, 07 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2022/12/31/lidar-failing-to-start-ros2-and-raspberrypi/https://whatibroke.com/2022/12/31/lidar-failing-to-start-ros2-and-raspberrypi/Hi everyone,I’m messing around with a diff-drive robot and have been hitting an intermittent issue with my Lidar: This turned out to be a low power issue. The Pi’s…Sat, 31 Dec 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2022/12/29/wheel-going-in-the-wrong-direction-rviz2-and-foxglove/https://whatibroke.com/2022/12/29/wheel-going-in-the-wrong-direction-rviz2-and-foxglove/Hi everyone, I hope you’re having a good break! I’m currently following this tutorial and messing around with a diffdrive robot. After making a few changes I noticed…Thu, 29 Dec 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2022/12/11/ros2-controller-manager-not-available-articubot-tutorials/https://whatibroke.com/2022/12/11/ros2-controller-manager-not-available-articubot-tutorials/Hey everyone,I’m currently working through a great tutorial series on youtube for ROS2. Unfortunately, I ran into a bit of an issue with a race condition in a launch…Sun, 11 Dec 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2022/12/03/raspberrypi-camera-not-detected-ubuntu-20-04-5-lts/https://whatibroke.com/2022/12/03/raspberrypi-camera-not-detected-ubuntu-20-04-5-lts/Hi everyone, I ran into a bit of an issue with a RaspberryPi 4 running Ubuntu 20.04.5 this morning. Running should have returned but instead I was getting . This was…Sat, 03 Dec 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2022/11/26/ros2-on-parallels-unable-to-be-reached-by-other-nodes/https://whatibroke.com/2022/11/26/ros2-on-parallels-unable-to-be-reached-by-other-nodes/Hi everyone, I’ve been messing around with ROS2 on a RaspberryPi and a Mac using Parallels to run Ubuntu. I hit a small snag when trying to get the nodes to…Sat, 26 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2022/11/17/gazebo-classic-material-colors-not-working-in-gazebo-ignition/https://whatibroke.com/2022/11/17/gazebo-classic-material-colors-not-working-in-gazebo-ignition/Hi everyone, I’m doing a few tutorials to simulate a lidar based navigation system and I’ve hit a few issues when trying to use Gazebo classic features in Gazebo…Thu, 17 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2022/11/14/gazebo-classic-to-gazebo-ignition-diff-drive-conversion/https://whatibroke.com/2022/11/14/gazebo-classic-to-gazebo-ignition-diff-drive-conversion/Hi everyone, I’m currently following some ros2 tutorials for simulating a diff drive robot in Gazebo Classic. I’m using Gazebo Ignition and unfortunately the…Mon, 14 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2022/11/13/spawn-entity-in-gazebo-from-ros2/https://whatibroke.com/2022/11/13/spawn-entity-in-gazebo-from-ros2/Hi everyone,I’m currently following a tutorial to simulate a fairly basic lidar robot with ROS2 and Gazebo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laWn7_cj434.…Sun, 13 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2022/10/30/libgl-error-pic-id-driver-null-ros2-turtlesim/https://whatibroke.com/2022/10/30/libgl-error-pic-id-driver-null-ros2-turtlesim/Hi everyone, I’m currently following the ros2 turtlesim tutorial with Ubuntu on an M1 Mac with Parallels and Ubuntu. Unfortunately, I hit a ‘device not found’ when…Sun, 30 Oct 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2022/10/30/the-repository-is-not-signed-ubuntu-ros2-installation/https://whatibroke.com/2022/10/30/the-repository-is-not-signed-ubuntu-ros2-installation/Hi everyone, I’m currently installing ros2 on Ubuntu (with Parallels) and ran into the following error: I was following the official tutorial so I was little…Sun, 30 Oct 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2022/05/24/searching-for-a-new-site-idea-on-reddit/https://whatibroke.com/2022/05/24/searching-for-a-new-site-idea-on-reddit/A bit of a different sort of post this time. I’ve been looking for a new side project for a couple of weeks after finally deciding to shelve the one I’ve been working…Tue, 24 May 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2022/05/20/errors-pushing-an-image-to-a-new-ecr-repo-on-aws/https://whatibroke.com/2022/05/20/errors-pushing-an-image-to-a-new-ecr-repo-on-aws/Hey everyone, I normally use DigitalOcean or Azure for docker and kubernetes but have decided to give AWS a go this time around. I was following a guide on deploying…Fri, 20 May 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2022/02/10/console-log-output-not-appearing-aws-sam-node-js/https://whatibroke.com/2022/02/10/console-log-output-not-appearing-aws-sam-node-js/Hi everyone, I ran into a bit of an interesting issue today after updating AWS SAM. All of my node log output stopped appearing in my console locally. For now,…Thu, 10 Feb 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2022/01/30/create_in_progress-when-creating-a-certificate-with-cloudformation/https://whatibroke.com/2022/01/30/create_in_progress-when-creating-a-certificate-with-cloudformation/Hi everyone,I ran into a bit of an issue today while creating a certificate with CloudFormation. After kicking the stack off it ended up hanging on a step to create a…Sun, 30 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2022/01/25/adding-a-custom-domain-name-aws-sam/https://whatibroke.com/2022/01/25/adding-a-custom-domain-name-aws-sam/Hi everyone, It’s been a long time but I’m messing around with AWS SAM again. I’m currently converting www.testerwidgets.com into an AWS SAM application. As part of…Tue, 25 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2021/11/30/golang-and-mysql-digitalocean-managed-cluster/https://whatibroke.com/2021/11/30/golang-and-mysql-digitalocean-managed-cluster/Hey everyone, Just sharing a helper function to get you started when trying to connect to a mysql managed cluster on DigitalOcean with Golang. Before we get into the…Tue, 30 Nov 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2021/11/27/failed-to-connect-to-the-database-default-addr-for-network-unknown-mysql-and-golang/https://whatibroke.com/2021/11/27/failed-to-connect-to-the-database-default-addr-for-network-unknown-mysql-and-golang/Hey everyone, I’m currently setting up a mysql database on DigitalOcean and hit the following error when connecting: Luckily this turned out to be a pretty easy fix.…Sat, 27 Nov 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2021/11/22/configure-aws-route53-domain-to-point-to-digitalocean-name-servers/https://whatibroke.com/2021/11/22/configure-aws-route53-domain-to-point-to-digitalocean-name-servers/Hey everyone, This is a quick post on how to point your AWS Route53 domain to DigitalOcean. I’m currently messing around with Kubernetes on DigitalOcean (DOKS) and…Mon, 22 Nov 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2021/11/22/no-matches-for-kind-deployment-in-version-apps-v1beta2-digitalocean/https://whatibroke.com/2021/11/22/no-matches-for-kind-deployment-in-version-apps-v1beta2-digitalocean/Hey everyone, I’ve been working on a small golang app and decided to try out Kubernetes on DigitalOcean instead of the usual Azure or AWS. In order to get started I…Mon, 22 Nov 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2021/08/14/custom-error-message-for-priceincents-vue3-and-vuelidate/https://whatibroke.com/2021/08/14/custom-error-message-for-priceincents-vue3-and-vuelidate/Hey everyone, This is a quick post to show how you can add a custom error message when using Vuelidate in Vue3. In my case I have a price field that should not be…Sat, 14 Aug 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2021/08/14/support-for-password-authentication-was-removed-on-august-13-2021-please-use-a-personal-access-token-instead-fix-for-mac/https://whatibroke.com/2021/08/14/support-for-password-authentication-was-removed-on-august-13-2021-please-use-a-personal-access-token-instead-fix-for-mac/Hey everyone, If you’re like me and a bit slack with your personal projects you might’ve started receiving the following error today: As the message says, Github…Sat, 14 Aug 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2021/07/17/create-a-pre-signed-upload-url-for-aws-s3-using-golang/https://whatibroke.com/2021/07/17/create-a-pre-signed-upload-url-for-aws-s3-using-golang/Hi everyone, This is just a quick post on how to create a pre-signed upload url for AWS S3 using Golang. The generate the presigned url, you’ll need something like…Sat, 17 Jul 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2021/07/16/viewing-sql-logs-in-mysql/https://whatibroke.com/2021/07/16/viewing-sql-logs-in-mysql/Hi everyone, I’ve recently switched from PostgreSQL and MSSQL to MySQL. I ran into a bit of an issue today where I needed to see the queries I was generating for an…Fri, 16 Jul 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2021/07/02/avoiding-declared-but-not-used-in-golang-while-testing/https://whatibroke.com/2021/07/02/avoiding-declared-but-not-used-in-golang-while-testing/Hi everyone, I come from a mostly JavaScript and .NET background and am currently transitioning to Golang. I’m really liking the language and ecosystem so far but one…Fri, 02 Jul 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2021/06/18/goland-unable-to-resolve-directory-modules-not-loading-mac/https://whatibroke.com/2021/06/18/goland-unable-to-resolve-directory-modules-not-loading-mac/Hi everyone, I’m trying out Goland on an old Mac and hit a bit of an issue where it was unable to resolve most of my modules. The weird thing was that if I ran the…Fri, 18 Jun 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2021/05/22/protoc-gen-go-is-not-recognized-as-an-internal-or-external-command-go/https://whatibroke.com/2021/05/22/protoc-gen-go-is-not-recognized-as-an-internal-or-external-command-go/Hi everyone, I’m currently looking into Go and have hit the following error while trying to run proto: `protoc-gen-go` is not recognized as an internal or external…Sat, 22 May 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2021/04/10/azure-cdn-not-updating-after-deployment-azure/https://whatibroke.com/2021/04/10/azure-cdn-not-updating-after-deployment-azure/Hey everyone, I’ve setup a deployment pipeline for the JellyWidgets.com react app that I’m currently messing around on. Unfortunately, while the deployment appeared…Sat, 10 Apr 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2021/04/02/the-current-operating-system-is-not-capable-of-running-this-task-that-typically-means-the-task-was-written-for-windows-only-for-example-written-for-windows-desktop-powershell-azurefilecopy4/https://whatibroke.com/2021/04/02/the-current-operating-system-is-not-capable-of-running-this-task-that-typically-means-the-task-was-written-for-windows-only-for-example-written-for-windows-desktop-powershell-azurefilecopy4/Hi everyone, I am currently setting up an azure pipeline to deploy a ReactApp to a Blob storage container. I was a bit surprised when I hit the following error with…Fri, 02 Apr 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2021/03/29/aks-template-for-azure-bicep/https://whatibroke.com/2021/03/29/aks-template-for-azure-bicep/Hi everyone, I’ve added AKS to my Azure environment today using Bicep. This is the Bicep template I ended up using in case it’s useful: See this link for more info on…Mon, 29 Mar 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2021/03/28/container-registry-template-for-azure-bicep/https://whatibroke.com/2021/03/28/container-registry-template-for-azure-bicep/Hi everyone, Just another Bicep template I’m using – this one is for a basic container registry: See the following definition if you need more info on some of the…Sun, 28 Mar 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2021/03/28/key-vault-template-for-azure-bicep/https://whatibroke.com/2021/03/28/key-vault-template-for-azure-bicep/Hi everyone,I’m currently mucking around with Bicep as a replacement for plain ARM templates. I’ve just created a key vault and thought I’d share it in case anyone…Sun, 28 Mar 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2021/03/28/setup-mongodb-on-an-azure-vm/https://whatibroke.com/2021/03/28/setup-mongodb-on-an-azure-vm/Hi everyone, I’m currently using a small linux vm to host a MongoDB instance on Azure. These are the steps I followed:Sun, 28 Mar 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2021/03/28/setup-postgresql-on-an-azure-vm/https://whatibroke.com/2021/03/28/setup-postgresql-on-an-azure-vm/Hi everyone, I’m currently testing out a small linux vm with PostgreSQL on Azure. Just sharing the steps for future reference and hopefully it’ll be able to help you…Sun, 28 Mar 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2021/03/27/quick-sample-to-create-a-vm-azure-bicep/https://whatibroke.com/2021/03/27/quick-sample-to-create-a-vm-azure-bicep/Hey everyone, I’m trying out Bicep for my current side project and have created a small vm to host a PostgreSQL instance. There weren’t a lot of samples to reference…Sat, 27 Mar 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2021/03/16/unable-to-parse-parameter-azuredeploy-parameters-dev-json-azure-bicep/https://whatibroke.com/2021/03/16/unable-to-parse-parameter-azuredeploy-parameters-dev-json-azure-bicep/Hi everyone, I’ve been trying out Bicep as a replacement for ARM templates for a mini side project to replace the TFN generator people are currently using on this…Tue, 16 Mar 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2021/03/14/fallback-image-if-src-doesnt-exist-for-image-tag-reactjs/https://whatibroke.com/2021/03/14/fallback-image-if-src-doesnt-exist-for-image-tag-reactjs/Hey everyone, I have a small list component that I wanted to populate with a custom image based on the entity’s id. Unfortunately, not all entities have an image so…Sun, 14 Mar 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2021/01/23/net-5-0-this-package-is-required-for-the-entity-framework-core-tools-to-work/https://whatibroke.com/2021/01/23/net-5-0-this-package-is-required-for-the-entity-framework-core-tools-to-work/I was trying to create a migration in a new project within a solution and received the following error: Build started… Build succeeded. Your startup project…Sat, 23 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2020/11/26/elasticsearch-on-aws-anonymous-is-not-authorized-to-perform-eseshttpget/https://whatibroke.com/2020/11/26/elasticsearch-on-aws-anonymous-is-not-authorized-to-perform-eseshttpget/Hi everyone, I am trying out ElasticSearch on AWS and ran into the following error while trying to access the provided Kabana endpoint: This turned out to be pretty…Thu, 26 Nov 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2020/09/27/docker-volumes-mounting-file-as-folder-on-windows/https://whatibroke.com/2020/09/27/docker-volumes-mounting-file-as-folder-on-windows/Hey everyone, I ran into a small issue today using docker-compose. I had a config file I was trying to mount as a volume however running “docker-compose up” generated…Sun, 27 Sep 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2020/09/27/useful-docker-commands/https://whatibroke.com/2020/09/27/useful-docker-commands/Hey everyone, This is more for personal reference, but hopefully it’s able to help someone else as well. This post will simply be used for a list of docker commands…Sun, 27 Sep 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2020/09/27/useful-rabbitmq-commands/https://whatibroke.com/2020/09/27/useful-rabbitmq-commands/Hey everyone, This is more for personal reference, but hopefully it’s able to help someone else as well. This post will simply be used for a list of RabbitMQ commands…Sun, 27 Sep 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2020/09/13/masstransit-with-mediator-iservicecollectionbusconfigurator-does-not-contain-a-definition-for-addmediator-and-the-best-extension-method-overload-dependencyinjectionregistrationextensions-a/https://whatibroke.com/2020/09/13/masstransit-with-mediator-iservicecollectionbusconfigurator-does-not-contain-a-definition-for-addmediator-and-the-best-extension-method-overload-dependencyinjectionregistrationextensions-a/Hi everyone, I’m currently learning MassTransit by following a great video series by Chris Patterson:…Sun, 13 Sep 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2020/06/27/azure-sas-upload-with-reactjs-blocked-by-cors/https://whatibroke.com/2020/06/27/azure-sas-upload-with-reactjs-blocked-by-cors/Hi everyone, I ran into a cors error while working on a ReactJS app and uploading images to Azure Storage with an SAS url: https://localhost:3000&#8242; has been…Sat, 27 Jun 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2020/06/05/overwrite-selected-tree-view-item-styles-material-ui-reactjs/https://whatibroke.com/2020/06/05/overwrite-selected-tree-view-item-styles-material-ui-reactjs/Hi everyone, Just a quick post on how to overwrite the styles of a selected tree item using material ui and ReactJS: treeItem: { paddingTop: theme.spacing(1),…Fri, 05 Jun 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2020/06/03/failed-to-load-the-development-https-certificate-using-docker-and-ocelot/https://whatibroke.com/2020/06/03/failed-to-load-the-development-https-certificate-using-docker-and-ocelot/Hey everyone, I randomly started encountering the following error while using docker to host my Ocelot gateway: Failed to load the development https certificate at…Wed, 03 Jun 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2020/06/01/dx20807-unable-to-retrieve-document-from-pii-is-hidden-for-more-details-see-https-aka-ms-identitymodel-pii-sitestackoverflow-com/https://whatibroke.com/2020/06/01/dx20807-unable-to-retrieve-document-from-pii-is-hidden-for-more-details-see-https-aka-ms-identitymodel-pii-sitestackoverflow-com/Hi everyone, I ran into the following error today while implementing Azure AD B2C: DX20807: Unable to retrieve document from: ‘[PII is hidden. For more details, see…Mon, 01 Jun 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2020/05/28/2922/https://whatibroke.com/2020/05/28/2922/Hey everyone, I ran into the following error today while searching MongoDb for an object: Element ‘Tags’ does not match any field or property of class X. The issue…Thu, 28 May 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2020/05/27/net-core-web-api-returning-binary-file-with-no-headers-instead-of-expected-response/https://whatibroke.com/2020/05/27/net-core-web-api-returning-binary-file-with-no-headers-instead-of-expected-response/Hey everyone, A small issue I’ve run into while setting up a .net core web api microservice that also utilises a number of gRPC services. Symptoms were as follows:…Wed, 27 May 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2020/05/24/2912/https://whatibroke.com/2020/05/24/2912/Hi everyone, I ran into the following error today after updating visual studio 2019 to version 16.6: unable to find the target operating system for the project I…Sun, 24 May 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2020/05/14/openxml-validation-spreadsheet-value-between-two-numbers-c/https://whatibroke.com/2020/05/14/openxml-validation-spreadsheet-value-between-two-numbers-c/Hi everyone, Just a quick post on how to validate a numeric cell to ensure that the value is between two numbers when using OpenXml: // Restrict min and max values…Thu, 14 May 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2020/05/03/protobuf-visual-studio-a-namespace-cannot-directly-contain-members-such-as-fields-or-methods/https://whatibroke.com/2020/05/03/protobuf-visual-studio-a-namespace-cannot-directly-contain-members-such-as-fields-or-methods/Hi everyone, I ran into the following intellisense error while adding a new proto file: “protobuf” visual studio a namespace cannot directly contain members such as…Sun, 03 May 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2020/04/25/docker-severitycodedescriptionprojectfilelinesuppression-state-errordt1001service-service-has-neither-an-image-nor-a-build-context-specified-at-least-one-must-be-provided-docker-composec/https://whatibroke.com/2020/04/25/docker-severitycodedescriptionprojectfilelinesuppression-state-errordt1001service-service-has-neither-an-image-nor-a-build-context-specified-at-least-one-must-be-provided-docker-composec/Hi everyone, I ran into the following error while using docker compose and visual studio: Severity Code Description Project File Line Suppression State Error DT1001…Sat, 25 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2020/04/15/automapper-protobuf-datetime-to-timestamp-c/https://whatibroke.com/2020/04/15/automapper-protobuf-datetime-to-timestamp-c/Hi everyone, I ran into the following error tonight while attempting to use automapper to map a datetime field to a protobuf timestamp property: automapper missing…Wed, 15 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2020/04/01/http-grpc-with-net-core-and-docker-error-starting-grpc-call-system-net-http-httprequestexception-an-error-occurred-while-sending-the-request-system-io-ioexception-the-response-ended-pre/https://whatibroke.com/2020/04/01/http-grpc-with-net-core-and-docker-error-starting-grpc-call-system-net-http-httprequestexception-an-error-occurred-while-sending-the-request-system-io-ioexception-the-response-ended-pre/Hi everyone, I’ve been mucking around with gRPC today while using .NET Core and Docker. I have two Microservices in the setup, one server and one client. Because…Wed, 01 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2020/03/27/eshoponcontainers-no-parameterless-constructor-defined-for-type-dbcontext/https://whatibroke.com/2020/03/27/eshoponcontainers-no-parameterless-constructor-defined-for-type-dbcontext/Hi everyone, Another eShopOnContainers post. Today I was setting up migrations and ran into the following error: Found DbContext ‘CatalogContext’.…Fri, 27 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2020/03/25/databasefacade-does-not-contain-a-definition-for-migrate-and-no-accessible-extension-method-migrate-eshoponcontainers/https://whatibroke.com/2020/03/25/databasefacade-does-not-contain-a-definition-for-migrate-and-no-accessible-extension-method-migrate-eshoponcontainers/Hi everyone, I’ve been going through Microsoft’s eShopOnContainers repo and replicating it as a small test project to learn microservices. While adding the WebHost…Wed, 25 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2020/01/23/return-url-is-missing-path-azure-ad-b2c/https://whatibroke.com/2020/01/23/return-url-is-missing-path-azure-ad-b2c/Hi everyone, Just a small issue I’ve hit while implementing Azure AD B2C. After logging in Azure has been routing me to the base path instead of including the…Thu, 23 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2020/01/21/azure-ad-b2c-unauthorized/https://whatibroke.com/2020/01/21/azure-ad-b2c-unauthorized/Hi everyone, I’ve been mucking around with Azure AD B2C. It seems like a pretty good substitute for AWS Cognito that I’ve used previously. While following the…Tue, 21 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2020/01/10/prevent-hot-chocolate-schema-polling-from-spamming-logs-graphql/https://whatibroke.com/2020/01/10/prevent-hot-chocolate-schema-polling-from-spamming-logs-graphql/Hi everyone, I’m currently toying around with GraphQL on with HotChocolate on .NET Core Microservices. After implementing logging I ran into a bit of a problem every…Fri, 10 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2019/12/30/error-timestamp-is-not-defined-net-core-and-grpc/https://whatibroke.com/2019/12/30/error-timestamp-is-not-defined-net-core-and-grpc/Hi everyone, I’m currently testing out gRPC with .NET Core and hit the following error when attempting to add a timestamp field to my proto file: error : “Timestamp”…Mon, 30 Dec 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2019/12/24/current-net-sdk-does-not-support-targeting-net-core-3-0/https://whatibroke.com/2019/12/24/current-net-sdk-does-not-support-targeting-net-core-3-0/Hi everyone, I’m currently learning microservices with .Net Core. As part of this I’ve been following one of Microsoft’s tutorials:…Tue, 24 Dec 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2019/11/18/missing-tsconfig-when-converting-existing-reactjs-project/https://whatibroke.com/2019/11/18/missing-tsconfig-when-converting-existing-reactjs-project/Hi everyone, I’ve finally decided to start learning typescript while working on a side project. The plan was to convert the existing project over using the following…Mon, 18 Nov 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2019/10/28/cognito-hosted-ui-user-pool-google-not-showing/https://whatibroke.com/2019/10/28/cognito-hosted-ui-user-pool-google-not-showing/Hi everyone, I’m implementing Cognito User Pools for an app and currently adding social providers (Google, Facebook, etc). The setup process seems pretty straight…Mon, 28 Oct 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2019/10/23/unable-to-create-object-of-type-applicationdbcontext-updating-to-net-core-3-0/https://whatibroke.com/2019/10/23/unable-to-create-object-of-type-applicationdbcontext-updating-to-net-core-3-0/Hi everyone, I’ve just updated to .net core 3.0 and have been hitting a few issues. I hit this one while trying to add a migration: Unable to create an object of type…Wed, 23 Oct 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2019/10/19/2562/https://whatibroke.com/2019/10/19/2562/Hey everyone, I recently upgraded my .net core 2.2 project to .net core 3.0. When trying to add a migration I hit the following error: add-migration : The term…Sat, 19 Oct 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2019/09/14/view-raw-sql-in-ef-core-simple-option/https://whatibroke.com/2019/09/14/view-raw-sql-in-ef-core-simple-option/Hi everyone, I’ve been looking for a simple way of viewing the raw output of sql in my local environment without having to make code changes and came across the…Sat, 14 Sep 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2019/09/04/react-fontawesome-overlay-an-icon-with-a-number/https://whatibroke.com/2019/09/04/react-fontawesome-overlay-an-icon-with-a-number/Hi everyone, A quick post on how to overlay a number counter on a comment icon with react-fontawesome: This will show up as the following:Wed, 04 Sep 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2019/08/25/2470/https://whatibroke.com/2019/08/25/2470/Hey everyone, I’m currently working on a prototype using .net core, sql server, ef and NetTopologySuite to handle locations. While trying to save a location I ran…Sun, 25 Aug 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2019/08/24/simple-react-leaflet-location-picker-setup/https://whatibroke.com/2019/08/24/simple-react-leaflet-location-picker-setup/Hi everyone, Just thought I’d share a very simple react-leaflet setup in case it’s able to help anyone. Add the css and javascript for leaflet to public > index.html:…Sat, 24 Aug 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2019/08/23/module-not-found-cant-resolve-leaflet-in-react-leaflet-error/https://whatibroke.com/2019/08/23/module-not-found-cant-resolve-leaflet-in-react-leaflet-error/Hey everyone, I ran into the following error after installing react-leaflet and attempting to run an example: Module not found: Can’t resolve ‘leaflet’ in…Fri, 23 Aug 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2019/08/23/request-denied-react-geocode/https://whatibroke.com/2019/08/23/request-denied-react-geocode/Hi everyone, I’m currently testing react-geocode but hit a “request denied” error after providing my API key. The solution was pretty simple thankfully – enable the…Fri, 23 Aug 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2019/08/22/nettopologysuite-circular-reference-with-net-core-2-2/https://whatibroke.com/2019/08/22/nettopologysuite-circular-reference-with-net-core-2-2/Hey everyone, Testing out a spatial project with .net core and I ran into the following error: Microsoft.CSharp.RuntimeBinder.RuntimeBinderException : The best…Thu, 22 Aug 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2019/08/18/set-date-back-twelve-hours-mssql/https://whatibroke.com/2019/08/18/set-date-back-twelve-hours-mssql/Hey everyone, A quick post on how to set a date value for twelve hours ago using SQL Server: Simply use the dateadd function and specify the unit (hours in this…Sun, 18 Aug 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2019/08/13/typography-component-without-a-link-break-material-ui/https://whatibroke.com/2019/08/13/typography-component-without-a-link-break-material-ui/Hey everyone, UPDATE: In new versions you now need to add a display attribute: display=”inline” I’ve been working with Material-UI and ReactJS and had a bit of an…Tue, 13 Aug 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2019/08/13/unable-to-migrate-after-adding-config-to-startup/https://whatibroke.com/2019/08/13/unable-to-migrate-after-adding-config-to-startup/Hi everyone, Just a quick post on fixing up a migration error after I added new config to startup.cs via DI. The error after running add-migration was pretty…Tue, 13 Aug 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2019/08/10/a4988-stepper-motor-raspberrypi/https://whatibroke.com/2019/08/10/a4988-stepper-motor-raspberrypi/We’re using a 42shd0034-20B Geetech stepping motor taken from a 3d printer: We’ll be driving it with an A4988 stepper motor controller. You can pick up five packs of…Sat, 10 Aug 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2019/08/10/change-i2c-address-of-ina219/https://whatibroke.com/2019/08/10/change-i2c-address-of-ina219/Hi everyone, I wanted to use ina219 with pca9685 but they shared the same i2c address 0x4: 0. Luckily, there’s a fairly easy fix for this. All we need to do is solder…Sat, 10 Aug 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2019/03/14/unable-to-find-a-dom-node-for-19-slate-js/https://whatibroke.com/2019/03/14/unable-to-find-a-dom-node-for-19-slate-js/Hi everyone, I ran into the following error while attempting to add an image to a slate.js editor today: slate.js unable to find dom node for 19 The solution was to…Thu, 14 Mar 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2019/02/17/string-to-color-avatar-helpers/https://whatibroke.com/2019/02/17/string-to-color-avatar-helpers/Hi everyone, A quick post on a helper function I came across for generating avatars. This function generates a random color for the specified string: Thanks to…Sun, 17 Feb 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2019/02/04/access-to-fetch-from-origin-has-been-blocked-by-cors-policy-aws-sam-local/https://whatibroke.com/2019/02/04/access-to-fetch-from-origin-has-been-blocked-by-cors-policy-aws-sam-local/Hi everyone, I’ve been using AWS SAM local lately and ran into a bit of an issue with CORS. It took a looong time to find a solution that worked for all of my local…Mon, 04 Feb 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2019/02/01/aws-sam-request-extremely-slow-fix/https://whatibroke.com/2019/02/01/aws-sam-request-extremely-slow-fix/Hi everyone, I’m currently using AWS SAM CLI with NodeJS and was surprised to find that the requests were significantly slower when run locally. Luckily, I came…Fri, 01 Feb 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2019/01/28/move-selection-to-single-line-visual-code/https://whatibroke.com/2019/01/28/move-selection-to-single-line-visual-code/Hi everyone, A quick post on how to merge a multiline block into a single line using Visual Studio Code: Simply highlight your code block, press F1, and then type…Mon, 28 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2019/01/18/this-query-is-not-a-function-error-when-using-promisify-with-mysql/https://whatibroke.com/2019/01/18/this-query-is-not-a-function-error-when-using-promisify-with-mysql/Hi everyone, I ran into the following error while attempting to promisify my node.js mysql transactions: This took a while to track down but it turns out that I…Fri, 18 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2019/01/15/overriding-global-variables-aws-sam-local/https://whatibroke.com/2019/01/15/overriding-global-variables-aws-sam-local/Hi everyone, Today I’ve added local overrides to the global variables in my template.yml file. This was pretty finicky – a lot of conflicting suggestions out there…Tue, 15 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2019/01/13/get-user-id-in-lambda-node-js/https://whatibroke.com/2019/01/13/get-user-id-in-lambda-node-js/Hi everyone, A quick post on where to find the user id (sub) in a lambda requested that has been authenticated with a congito authorizer. You’ll be able to find…Sun, 13 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2019/01/08/upload-an-image-to-s3-using-post-and-a-presigned-url/https://whatibroke.com/2019/01/08/upload-an-image-to-s3-using-post-and-a-presigned-url/Hi everyone, Today I’ve been converting my “PUT” upload to S3 to a “POST”. The main motivator for this was to restrict the file size of uploads using a signed policy.…Tue, 08 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2019/01/06/cognito-auth-with-aws-sam/https://whatibroke.com/2019/01/06/cognito-auth-with-aws-sam/Hi everyone, I’ve spent today implementing Cognito with AWS SAM and it took quite a while to work out what needed to be done – unfortunately there’s a lot of…Sun, 06 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2019/01/05/aws-sam-not-re-creating-dynamodb-table-that-was-manually-deleted-codestar/https://whatibroke.com/2019/01/05/aws-sam-not-re-creating-dynamodb-table-that-was-manually-deleted-codestar/Hi everyone, I ran into a bit of an issue after deleting a DynamoDb table via the AWS Console that had been created via CloudFormation (using AWS SAM). After deleting…Sat, 05 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2019/01/04/aws-sam-cheat-sheet-quick-reference/https://whatibroke.com/2019/01/04/aws-sam-cheat-sheet-quick-reference/Hi everyone, This will just be a living cheat sheet or quick reference for using AWS SAM with nodejs. I’ll add to it as I find things that are useful or I might need…Fri, 04 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2019/01/04/error-invalid-value-for-parameter-overrides-parameterkeytable_nameparametervaluecatbreeds-is-not-in-valid-format-it-must-look-something-like-parameterkeykeypairnameparametervaluemykey/https://whatibroke.com/2019/01/04/error-invalid-value-for-parameter-overrides-parameterkeytable_nameparametervaluecatbreeds-is-not-in-valid-format-it-must-look-something-like-parameterkeykeypairnameparametervaluemykey/Hi everyone, I ran into the following error while using the AWS SAM Cli: This is the command I was running: The error message is unfortunately very misleading. After…Fri, 04 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2018/12/30/4-codebuild-output-tmp-script-sh-pip-not-found-node-js-and-codestar/https://whatibroke.com/2018/12/30/4-codebuild-output-tmp-script-sh-pip-not-found-node-js-and-codestar/Hi everyone, I ran into the following CodeBuild error after upgrading my build environment from the default nodejs8.10 to nodejs10.14: This one was a little…Sun, 30 Dec 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2018/12/28/create-dynamodb-table-aws-cli/https://whatibroke.com/2018/12/28/create-dynamodb-table-aws-cli/Hi everyone, A quick example of how to create a dynamodb table using the AWS CLI: For more info the following AWS page helped me:…Fri, 28 Dec 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2018/12/28/mocha-tests-sh-1-mocha-permission-denied-aws-codebuild-with-node-js/https://whatibroke.com/2018/12/28/mocha-tests-sh-1-mocha-permission-denied-aws-codebuild-with-node-js/Hi everyone, I ran into the following error while running a Node.js build with AWS CodeBuild: To resolve this I removed node_modules from my repository and added it…Fri, 28 Dec 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2018/12/28/parsing-dynamodb-items-aws-lambda-with-node-js/https://whatibroke.com/2018/12/28/parsing-dynamodb-items-aws-lambda-with-node-js/Hi everyone, A quick post on how to parse DynamoDB items into something more readable when using lambda with Node.js: Original: Parsed: Official doco is here:…Fri, 28 Dec 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2018/12/24/check-if-running-locally-aws-sam-nodejs/https://whatibroke.com/2018/12/24/check-if-running-locally-aws-sam-nodejs/Hi everyone, Just a quick post on how to check if code is being run locally with AWS SAM and NodeJS:Mon, 24 Dec 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2018/12/21/aws-iot-error-in-discovery-certificate_verify_failed/https://whatibroke.com/2018/12/21/aws-iot-error-in-discovery-certificate_verify_failed/Hi everyone, I ran into the following error while using the AWS IoT python SDK: It turns out that this was because I was using the wrong root certificate. In the…Fri, 21 Dec 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2018/12/21/rocksmith-2014-exe-has-stopped-working-windows-10-faulting-module-name-igdumd32-dll/https://whatibroke.com/2018/12/21/rocksmith-2014-exe-has-stopped-working-windows-10-faulting-module-name-igdumd32-dll/Hi everyone, Bit of a different topic but I was using Rocksmith 2014 and ran into the following error: The fix is pretty easy, but somewhat annoying, unplug any…Fri, 21 Dec 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2018/12/21/update-wireless-info-on-raspberry-pi/https://whatibroke.com/2018/12/21/update-wireless-info-on-raspberry-pi/Hi everyone, Just a quick post on how to configure wireless info on a raspberry pi. To start with, open the config file: You can then add any number of connections to…Fri, 21 Dec 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2018/12/09/fetch-as-google-error-reactjs/https://whatibroke.com/2018/12/09/fetch-as-google-error-reactjs/Hi everyone, I ran into the following error while using “fetch as Google” and none of my pages were being indexed correctly: Uncaught TypeError: undefined is not a…Sun, 09 Dec 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2018/11/13/aws-2_continuousdeliverypipeline-tutorial-error-no-test-specified/https://whatibroke.com/2018/11/13/aws-2_continuousdeliverypipeline-tutorial-error-no-test-specified/Hi everyone, I ran into the following error while completing an AWS tutorial:…Tue, 13 Nov 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2018/10/08/net-core-2-1-is-returning-json-with-lowercase-properties/https://whatibroke.com/2018/10/08/net-core-2-1-is-returning-json-with-lowercase-properties/Hi everyone, Just testing out .Net Core 2.1 and noticed that all of my JSON properties are being returned in lowercase despite being defined as uppercase. It turns…Mon, 08 Oct 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2018/10/07/parsing-hash-args-for-cognito-auth-javascript/https://whatibroke.com/2018/10/07/parsing-hash-args-for-cognito-auth-javascript/Hi everyone, A quick post on a function for parsing hash args when using AWS Congito. //jsfiddle.net/4eo7836j/embed/ Just in case the fiddle ever disappears: Thanks…Sun, 07 Oct 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2018/09/18/aws-installing-aws-inspector-agent-on-windows-ec2-instance/https://whatibroke.com/2018/09/18/aws-installing-aws-inspector-agent-on-windows-ec2-instance/Hi everyone, Just a quick post on installing the AWS Inspector Agent on a Windows EC2 instance. Open PowerShell and run the following command: On your desktop, right…Tue, 18 Sep 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2018/09/11/dynamic-robots-txt-with-web-api-2/https://whatibroke.com/2018/09/11/dynamic-robots-txt-with-web-api-2/Hi everyone, For a project I’m currently working on I needed a dynamic robots.txt. Because our test environment is public facing we want to keep it from being indexed…Tue, 11 Sep 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2018/08/29/1573/https://whatibroke.com/2018/08/29/1573/Hi everyone, I’ve been having a bit of an issue with my AWS app going to sleep and taking a long time to handle initial requests. I’m using .NET with Elastic…Wed, 29 Aug 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2018/08/26/navlink-listitems-not-applying-activeclassname-class-when-clicked-on-reactjs-react-router-materialui/https://whatibroke.com/2018/08/26/navlink-listitems-not-applying-activeclassname-class-when-clicked-on-reactjs-react-router-materialui/Hi everyone, A bit of a hairy issue I ran into today that took a while to track down. I’m using React Router with Material UI to render a Drawer as a sidebar: The…Sun, 26 Aug 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2018/08/23/uncaught-syntaxerror-unexpected-token-reactjs-build/https://whatibroke.com/2018/08/23/uncaught-syntaxerror-unexpected-token-reactjs-build/Hi everyone, A ReactJS issue I ran into after running npm run build: Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token < This one took a while to track down but it essentially…Thu, 23 Aug 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2018/07/28/npm-err-missing-script-flow-npm-err-a-complete-log-of-this-run-can-be-found-in-reactjs-and-flow/https://whatibroke.com/2018/07/28/npm-err-missing-script-flow-npm-err-a-complete-log-of-this-run-can-be-found-in-reactjs-and-flow/Hi everyone, I ran into the following error while trying to setup flow: npm ERR! missing script: flow npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in: To fix…Sat, 28 Jul 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2018/06/29/error-adding-card-assembly-payments/https://whatibroke.com/2018/06/29/error-adding-card-assembly-payments/Hi everyone, Just working with Assembly Payments and ran into the following error while following their documentation on Capturing a Credit Card:…Fri, 29 Jun 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2018/06/29/including-an-externally-hosted-script-in-reactjs/https://whatibroke.com/2018/06/29/including-an-externally-hosted-script-in-reactjs/Hi everyone, Just a quick example of how to include an externally hosted js file in a reactjs app. In index.html add your script tag as you would in a normal app:…Fri, 29 Jun 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2018/06/29/tab-key-not-working-as-expected-visual-code/https://whatibroke.com/2018/06/29/tab-key-not-working-as-expected-visual-code/Hi everyone, I ran into a bit of a strange issue with visual code today. Tabs suddenly stopped working for creating an indent. Instead, the focus of the cursor…Fri, 29 Jun 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2018/06/28/system-security-securityexception-failed-to-negotiate-https-connection-fiddler/https://whatibroke.com/2018/06/28/system-security-securityexception-failed-to-negotiate-https-connection-fiddler/Hi everyone, I hit the following error when trying to execute a composed request with Fiddler: [Fiddler] The connection to ‘abc.com’ failed.…Thu, 28 Jun 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2018/06/24/error-number8152state10class16-string-or-binary-data-would-be-truncated-the-statement-has-been-terminated-entity-framework/https://whatibroke.com/2018/06/24/error-number8152state10class16-string-or-binary-data-would-be-truncated-the-statement-has-been-terminated-entity-framework/Hi everyone, I ran into the following error after adding model validation attributes to a database with existing values: Error Number:8152,State:10,Class:16 String or…Sun, 24 Jun 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2018/06/22/allow-number-and-string-for-proptypes-reactjs/https://whatibroke.com/2018/06/22/allow-number-and-string-for-proptypes-reactjs/Hi everyone, A quick post on how to allow a string or number when defining PropTypes: Thanks to this stackoverflow post for the info:…Fri, 22 Jun 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2018/06/11/overriding-button-styles-and-hover-effects-material-ui/https://whatibroke.com/2018/06/11/overriding-button-styles-and-hover-effects-material-ui/Hi everyone, Just a quick post on how to override the background color and hover effects for buttons in material ui: Define your class as follows: Then just reference…Mon, 11 Jun 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2018/06/02/multiple-instances-of-component-firing-incorrect-onchange-reactjs/https://whatibroke.com/2018/06/02/multiple-instances-of-component-firing-incorrect-onchange-reactjs/Hi everyone, I ran into a bit of an issue today while trying to render multiple instances of a component on a single page. Each component had a file input that was…Sat, 02 Jun 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2018/06/01/avoiding-wrapper-divs-in-reactjs/https://whatibroke.com/2018/06/01/avoiding-wrapper-divs-in-reactjs/Hi everyone, Just a quick post on how you can avoid wrapper divs in ReactJs. It’s particularly useful when populating tables or creating parts of a larger component.…Fri, 01 Jun 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2018/06/01/linq-to-entities-does-not-recognize-the-method-system-linq-iqueryable/https://whatibroke.com/2018/06/01/linq-to-entities-does-not-recognize-the-method-system-linq-iqueryable/Hi everyone, I ran into the following error today while attempting to use a raw query with entity framework: LINQ to Entities does not recognize the method…Fri, 01 Jun 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2018/05/31/adding-a-link-to-a-drawer-material-ui-and-reactjs/https://whatibroke.com/2018/05/31/adding-a-link-to-a-drawer-material-ui-and-reactjs/Hi everyone, I ran into a bit of an issue turning a menuitem into a link with Material UI and React-Router. The main problems being that underlines appeared and threw…Thu, 31 May 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2018/05/28/1498/https://whatibroke.com/2018/05/28/1498/Hey everyone, I ran into the following error while trying to import colors in MaterialUI: Module not found: Can’t resolve ‘material-ui/styles/colors’ It turns out…Mon, 28 May 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2018/05/28/full-page-layout-example-for-material-ui-reactjs/https://whatibroke.com/2018/05/28/full-page-layout-example-for-material-ui-reactjs/Hi everyone, I’ve spent the last couple of days looking into MaterialUI. It seems really good however there are very few examples of a layout wireframe. After digging…Mon, 28 May 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2018/05/28/pass-a-component-as-a-child-prop-and-render-it-reactjs/https://whatibroke.com/2018/05/28/pass-a-component-as-a-child-prop-and-render-it-reactjs/Hi everyone, A quick post on how to pass a component as a prop and then render it as a child. An alternative to all of this that I wasn’t aware of is to to use…Mon, 28 May 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2018/05/24/remote-desktop-an-authentication-error-has-occurred-this-could-be-due-to-credssp-encryption-oracle-remediation/https://whatibroke.com/2018/05/24/remote-desktop-an-authentication-error-has-occurred-this-could-be-due-to-credssp-encryption-oracle-remediation/Hi everyone, I ran into an auth issue with remote desktop today: An authentication error has occurred. The function requested is not supported. Remote computer: XXXX…Thu, 24 May 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2018/05/22/web-api-2-exceptionmessageno-mediatypeformatter-is-available-to-read-an-object-of-type-httppostedfilebase-from-content-with-media-type-multipart-form-data/https://whatibroke.com/2018/05/22/web-api-2-exceptionmessageno-mediatypeformatter-is-available-to-read-an-object-of-type-httppostedfilebase-from-content-with-media-type-multipart-form-data/Hi everyone, I ran into the following error while trying to get image uploads working with Web API 2: ExceptionMessage=No MediaTypeFormatter is available to read an…Tue, 22 May 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2018/05/21/dbset-does-not-contain-a-definition-for-fromsql-and-no-extension-method-fromsql-accepting-an-argument-of-type-dbset-could-be-found/https://whatibroke.com/2018/05/21/dbset-does-not-contain-a-definition-for-fromsql-and-no-extension-method-fromsql-accepting-an-argument-of-type-dbset-could-be-found/Hi everyone, I ran into the following error while attempting to use a custom query with EntityFramework: DbSet does not contain a definition for ‘FromSQL’ and no…Mon, 21 May 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2018/05/12/module-not-found-cant-resolve-babel-polyfill-in-cuserssourcereposfrontendsrc/https://whatibroke.com/2018/05/12/module-not-found-cant-resolve-babel-polyfill-in-cuserssourcereposfrontendsrc/Hi everyone, I was looking into asynchronous requests with redux tonight and hit the following error: Module not found: Can’t resolve ‘babel-polyfill’ in…Sat, 12 May 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2018/05/10/module-not-found-cant-resolve-redux-in-cusersfrontendsrcfrontendnode_modulesreact-reduxesconnect/https://whatibroke.com/2018/05/10/module-not-found-cant-resolve-redux-in-cusersfrontendsrcfrontendnode_modulesreact-reduxesconnect/Hi everyone, Another quick one. I’d installed react-redux but was running into the following error: Failed to compile.…Thu, 10 May 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2018/05/04/index-js2178-warning-a-component-is-changing-an-uncontrolled-input-of-type-checkbox-to-be-controlled-input-elements-should-not-switch-from-uncontrolled-to-controlled-or-vice-versa-decide-between/https://whatibroke.com/2018/05/04/index-js2178-warning-a-component-is-changing-an-uncontrolled-input-of-type-checkbox-to-be-controlled-input-elements-should-not-switch-from-uncontrolled-to-controlled-or-vice-versa-decide-between/Hi everyone, Bit of a silly error I ran into today. This one took an embarrassingly long time to figure out unfortunately: index.js:2178 Warning: A component is…Fri, 04 May 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2018/04/29/warning-cant-call-setstate-or-forceupdate-on-an-unmounted-component-this-is-a-no-op-but-it-indicates-a-memory-leak-in-your-application-to-fix-cancel-all-subscriptions-and-asynchronous-tasks-i/https://whatibroke.com/2018/04/29/warning-cant-call-setstate-or-forceupdate-on-an-unmounted-component-this-is-a-no-op-but-it-indicates-a-memory-leak-in-your-application-to-fix-cancel-all-subscriptions-and-asynchronous-tasks-i/Hi everyone, This is just a quick post, mostly for my future reference but hopefully it will help someone else out as well. I ran into the following error when…Sun, 29 Apr 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2018/04/23/include-userid-in-login-response-token-web-api-2/https://whatibroke.com/2018/04/23/include-userid-in-login-response-token-web-api-2/Hi everyone, A quick post on how to include the user’s id in your login response when using Web API 2. The default response to the /Token request is as follows: {…Mon, 23 Apr 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2018/04/23/module-build-failed-error-enoent-no-such-file-or-directory-open-windows/https://whatibroke.com/2018/04/23/module-build-failed-error-enoent-no-such-file-or-directory-open-windows/Hi everyone, I’ve been mucking around with React over the last couple of days. I ran into the following error while trying to build: Module build failed: Error:…Mon, 23 Apr 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2018/04/20/cannot-attach-the-file-c-database-mdf-as-database-x-entity-framework/https://whatibroke.com/2018/04/20/cannot-attach-the-file-c-database-mdf-as-database-x-entity-framework/Hi everyone, I ran into the following error when attempting to run ‘update-database’ on an initial migration: Cannot attach the file…Fri, 20 Apr 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2018/04/20/git-ignore-template-for-net/https://whatibroke.com/2018/04/20/git-ignore-template-for-net/Hi everyone, A sample .gitignore file for if you’re working with .net: *.cache *.dll *.exe *.pdb /build/ *.suo *.user _ReSharper.*/ *.sdf *.opensdf *.tlog *.log…Fri, 20 Apr 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2018/04/20/retrieving-user-id-in-web-api-2-controller-net/https://whatibroke.com/2018/04/20/retrieving-user-id-in-web-api-2-controller-net/Hi everyone, Just a quick post on how to retrieve the current user’s id in a Web API 2 controller: var userId = RequestContext.Principal.Identity.GetUserId(); Note…Fri, 20 Apr 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2018/04/19/import-an-existing-project-to-bitbucket/https://whatibroke.com/2018/04/19/import-an-existing-project-to-bitbucket/Hi everyone, Today I needed to import an existing project to Bitbucket. The documentation is really good, but just in case you have trouble finding it: Navigate to…Thu, 19 Apr 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2018/04/17/unsupported_grant_type-mvc-web-api-error/https://whatibroke.com/2018/04/17/unsupported_grant_type-mvc-web-api-error/Hi everyone, I ran into the following error while attempting to authenticate using .NET Web Api: POST http://localhost:63720/Token HTTP/1.1 Host: localhost:63720…Tue, 17 Apr 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2018/04/09/an-error-occurred-unrecognizedclientexception-when-calling-the-createfunction-operation-the-security-token-included-in-the-request-is-invalid/https://whatibroke.com/2018/04/09/an-error-occurred-unrecognizedclientexception-when-calling-the-createfunction-operation-the-security-token-included-in-the-request-is-invalid/Hi everyone, I ran into the following error today while attempting to create a Lambda function using the CLI: An error occurred (UnrecognizedClientException) when…Mon, 09 Apr 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2018/04/08/failed-reason-requires-capabilities-capability_iam-aws-sam/https://whatibroke.com/2018/04/08/failed-reason-requires-capabilities-capability_iam-aws-sam/Hi everyone, I ran into an error today while trying to deploy using AWS SAM: aws cloudformation deploy –template-file C:Usersxxxserverless-output.yaml –stack-name…Sun, 08 Apr 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2018/04/07/aws-cli-copy-from-bucket-an-error-occurred-accessdenied-when-calling-the-copyobject-operation-access-denied/https://whatibroke.com/2018/04/07/aws-cli-copy-from-bucket-an-error-occurred-accessdenied-when-calling-the-copyobject-operation-access-denied/Hi everyone, I ran into the following error while trying to copy files from one bucket to another using the AWS CLI: An error occurred (AccessDenied) when calling the…Sat, 07 Apr 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2018/04/07/serverless-offline-error-sls-offline-start/https://whatibroke.com/2018/04/07/serverless-offline-error-sls-offline-start/Hi everyone, I ran into the following error while trying to start serverless offline: serverles events.js:160 throw er Unhandled ‘error’ event spawn java ENOENT at…Sat, 07 Apr 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2018/04/06/aws-cli-create-bucket-could-not-connect-to-the-endpoint-url/https://whatibroke.com/2018/04/06/aws-cli-create-bucket-could-not-connect-to-the-endpoint-url/Hi everyone, I ran into the following error while attempting to copy files to a bucket via the AWS CLI: Could not connect to the endpoint URL:…Fri, 06 Apr 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2018/02/20/using-ina219-gy-219-with-the-raspberry-pi/https://whatibroke.com/2018/02/20/using-ina219-gy-219-with-the-raspberry-pi/Hi everyone, I’ve just setup an INA219B Voltage/Current sensor on my RaspberryPi. Just thought I’d link the tutorials and libraries I used – there’s a lot of really…Tue, 20 Feb 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2018/02/19/mini-360-dc-dc-buck-converter-incorrect-voltage-10v-instead-of-5v/https://whatibroke.com/2018/02/19/mini-360-dc-dc-buck-converter-incorrect-voltage-10v-instead-of-5v/Hi everyone, I’ve been playing around with a few DC-DC buck converters similar to these ones:…Mon, 19 Feb 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2018/01/16/duinotech-hall-effect-sensor-with-raspberrypi/https://whatibroke.com/2018/01/16/duinotech-hall-effect-sensor-with-raspberrypi/Hi everyone, This is just a quick post to cover how the Duinotech hall effect sensor module (XC-4434) can be hooked up to a RaspberryPi. The code below will output a…Tue, 16 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2017/12/15/attributeerror-module-serial-has-no-attribute-serialexception-python-3-5/https://whatibroke.com/2017/12/15/attributeerror-module-serial-has-no-attribute-serialexception-python-3-5/Hi everyone, A quick fix for an error I ran into while updating to Pyhton 3.5.2: I needed to add pyserial: Thanks to the following link:…Fri, 15 Dec 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2017/12/15/could-not-find-a-version-that-satisfied-the-requirement-smbus-python3-smbus/https://whatibroke.com/2017/12/15/could-not-find-a-version-that-satisfied-the-requirement-smbus-python3-smbus/Image unavailable in the original archive. Hi everyone, I ran into a bit of an issue installing smbus on Python3.5. It looks like all you have to do is use smbus2:…Fri, 15 Dec 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2017/12/12/pillow-install-fails-python-3-5-2/https://whatibroke.com/2017/12/12/pillow-install-fails-python-3-5-2/Hi everyone, Image unavailable in the original archive.Pillow install fails I ran into a bit of an issue trying to install Pillow on Raspbian with Python 3.5.2. The…Tue, 12 Dec 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2017/12/10/check-tensorflow-version-raspbian/https://whatibroke.com/2017/12/10/check-tensorflow-version-raspbian/Hey everyone, Just a quick post on how to check the Tensorflow version on Raspbian with a one-liner (assumes Python 3.x): Check out this Stackoverflow post for more…Sun, 10 Dec 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2017/12/10/updating-to-python-3-5-1-on-raspberrypi/https://whatibroke.com/2017/12/10/updating-to-python-3-5-1-on-raspberrypi/Hi everyone, Just a quick post on how to update to Python 3.5.1 the normal upgrade process isn’t working for you: You may need to restart once this is complete. Run…Sun, 10 Dec 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2017/12/09/attributeerror-dict-object-has-no-attribute-iteritems-python/https://whatibroke.com/2017/12/09/attributeerror-dict-object-has-no-attribute-iteritems-python/Hey everyone, Just running through object detection samples for Tensorflow and I encountered the following error: Sample:…Sat, 09 Dec 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2017/12/01/converting-proto-files-to-py-on-windows-tensorflow/https://whatibroke.com/2017/12/01/converting-proto-files-to-py-on-windows-tensorflow/Hey everyone, Ran into a bit of an issue today with Tensorflow: ImportError: cannot import name preprocessor_pb2 Turned out that I hadn’t run some of the installing…Fri, 01 Dec 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2017/11/03/check-if-string-contains-a-substring-python/https://whatibroke.com/2017/11/03/check-if-string-contains-a-substring-python/Hey everyone, Just a quick post on how to check if a string contains a string in python: Thanks to this stackoverflow post: https://stackoverflow.com/a/5473023/522859Fri, 03 Nov 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2017/09/28/virtualdog-tutorial-pluralsight/https://whatibroke.com/2017/09/28/virtualdog-tutorial-pluralsight/Hey everyone, Just taking a quick look at Jasmine with Typescript and found a decent looking tutorial on PluralSight with a sample app called VirtualDog. Attempting…Thu, 28 Sep 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2017/09/22/compass-only-works-on-pins-10-and-11-arduinosoftware-serial/https://whatibroke.com/2017/09/22/compass-only-works-on-pins-10-and-11-arduinosoftware-serial/Hey everyone, A bit of a confusing issue I ran into today. I couldn’t get my compass to work on any pins other than 10 or 11. Thankfully, there’s a fairly logical…Fri, 22 Sep 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2017/09/18/unicodedecodeerror-on-raspberrypi-python/https://whatibroke.com/2017/09/18/unicodedecodeerror-on-raspberrypi-python/Hey everyone, I ran into the following error while trying to read serial input on a Raspberry Pi hooked up to an Arduino via USB: UnicodeDecodeError: ‘utf-8’ codec…Mon, 18 Sep 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2017/09/12/exited-with-code-9009-visual-studio-build/https://whatibroke.com/2017/09/12/exited-with-code-9009-visual-studio-build/Hey everyone, I ran into the following error today while attempting to build a solution: It apparently means that a file couldn’t be found. The solution was to simply…Tue, 12 Sep 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2017/09/10/arduino-gps-ublox-neo-m8n-flight-controller-gps-wprotective-shell-for-pix-px4-pixhawk/https://whatibroke.com/2017/09/10/arduino-gps-ublox-neo-m8n-flight-controller-gps-wprotective-shell-for-pix-px4-pixhawk/Hey everyone, I recently purchased this GPS unit on ebay: http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemVersion&item=272492032614&view=all&tid=1865626885017…Sun, 10 Sep 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2017/09/03/imagemagick-commands/https://whatibroke.com/2017/09/03/imagemagick-commands/Hey guys, Just a couple of useful imagemagick commands for preparing images: Convert all images in a directory to jpg magick mogrify -format jpg * Resize all images…Sun, 03 Sep 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2017/09/03/rename-all-files-in-a-directory-with-sequential-numbers/https://whatibroke.com/2017/09/03/rename-all-files-in-a-directory-with-sequential-numbers/Hey guys, Just a batch script I came across that allows you to rename all files in a directory with sequential numbers. Really handy for things like tensorflow. All…Sun, 03 Sep 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2017/09/03/tensorflow-keyerror-the-name-importinput-refers-to-an-operation-not-in-the-graph/https://whatibroke.com/2017/09/03/tensorflow-keyerror-the-name-importinput-refers-to-an-operation-not-in-the-graph/Hey everyone, Just another small error I’ve run into while testing out Tensorflow’s label image example…Sun, 03 Sep 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2017/09/03/tensorflow-no-such-file-or-directory/https://whatibroke.com/2017/09/03/tensorflow-no-such-file-or-directory/Hey guys, Just a quick post on how to resolve an error I came across while testing out tensorflow: All you need to do is download the following file and place it in…Sun, 03 Sep 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2017/09/01/using-ffmpeg-to-create-an-image-for-every-second-of-a-video/https://whatibroke.com/2017/09/01/using-ffmpeg-to-create-an-image-for-every-second-of-a-video/Hey guys, Just a quick command I found on stackoverflow to take a still image/thumbnail out of a video every second: Thanks to this stackoverflow post:…Fri, 01 Sep 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2017/08/31/raspberry-pi-keeps-booting-into-the-login-screen/https://whatibroke.com/2017/08/31/raspberry-pi-keeps-booting-into-the-login-screen/Hey everyone, A bit of weird issue today – my RaspberryPi kept reverting to the login screen. To get around this, open command prompt from the login screen (ctrl +…Thu, 31 Aug 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2017/08/31/start-a-script-on-startup-raspberry-pi/https://whatibroke.com/2017/08/31/start-a-script-on-startup-raspberry-pi/Hey guys, Just thought I’d leave a couple of links to some guides I came across for setting up boot scripts on a raspberry pi. Quick guide on how to get them running:…Thu, 31 Aug 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2017/08/30/exit-raspberry-pi-camera-preview/https://whatibroke.com/2017/08/30/exit-raspberry-pi-camera-preview/Hey everyone, I ran into a bit of a weird issue with a raspberry pi camera preview today. After starting the preview I hit an uncaught exception which meant that…Wed, 30 Aug 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2017/08/24/arduino-serial-println-not-working/https://whatibroke.com/2017/08/24/arduino-serial-println-not-working/Hey everyone, Ran into a really obvious mistake today working with an Arduino. Thought I’d corrupted a boot loader and couldn’t get Serial.println to return anything.…Thu, 24 Aug 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2016/10/21/1187/https://whatibroke.com/2016/10/21/1187/Hey everyone, This is a quick guide on how to setup your own readthedocs server on Windows. Install Python 2.7: https://www.python.org/downloads/ Install virtual env…Fri, 21 Oct 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2016/09/23/unable-to-access-rds-database-from-elastic-beanstalk-application/https://whatibroke.com/2016/09/23/unable-to-access-rds-database-from-elastic-beanstalk-application/Hey everyone, I ran into a bit of an issue today where I was unable to access my RDS SQL Express instance from my .NET Elastic Beanstalk instance. I was receiving the…Fri, 23 Sep 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2016/07/29/how-to-add-a-fontawesome-icon-using-after/https://whatibroke.com/2016/07/29/how-to-add-a-fontawesome-icon-using-after/Hey everyone, Just a quick post on how to add a fontawesome icon using :after: See this stackoverflow post for more info: http://stackoverflow.com/a/18793584/522859Fri, 29 Jul 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2016/06/10/unilateral-receiver-not-allowed-in-chained-payment-is-restricted-adaptive-payment-dotnet-sdk/https://whatibroke.com/2016/06/10/unilateral-receiver-not-allowed-in-chained-payment-is-restricted-adaptive-payment-dotnet-sdk/Hey everyone, Just an error I ran into today while using the Adaptive Payments SDK for C#/.NET: Unilateral receiver not allowed in chained payment is restricted…Fri, 10 Jun 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2015/11/08/could-not-find-part-of-the-path-cxlib-adding-new-web-api-project/https://whatibroke.com/2015/11/08/could-not-find-part-of-the-path-cxlib-adding-new-web-api-project/Hey everyone, I ran into the following error when I tried to add a new Web API project in Visual Studio Express 2015 for Web: Could not find part of the path ‘C:xlib’…Sun, 08 Nov 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2015/11/07/culture-info-codes/https://whatibroke.com/2015/11/07/culture-info-codes/Hey everyone, Just posting a link to this list of culture info codes etc. I was looking for the en-AU one but had a bit of trouble tracking it down. Source:…Sat, 07 Nov 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2015/10/04/cannot-parse-config-file-adaptivepayments-sdk-paypal/https://whatibroke.com/2015/10/04/cannot-parse-config-file-adaptivepayments-sdk-paypal/Hey everyone, Just working on a small project that uses PayPal’s C# AdaptivePayments SDK. I hit an error while attempting to make the following payment: “Cannot parse…Sun, 04 Oct 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2015/10/04/this-type-of-fee-payer-x-isnt-recognized-by-our-system-paypal-adaptive-payments-sdk/https://whatibroke.com/2015/10/04/this-type-of-fee-payer-x-isnt-recognized-by-our-system-paypal-adaptive-payments-sdk/Hey everyone, Just another Adaptive Payments SDK error I’ve run into. Error Id: 560027 This type of fee payer x isn’t recognized by our system This one is fairly self…Sun, 04 Oct 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2015/10/03/select-not-showing-selected-values-angularjs/https://whatibroke.com/2015/10/03/select-not-showing-selected-values-angularjs/Hey everyone, I had a bit of trouble getting a selected option to show up with AngularJs. It turned out that I needed to add an ng-selected attribute: Check out this…Sat, 03 Oct 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2015/08/10/windows-10-search-not-working/https://whatibroke.com/2015/08/10/windows-10-search-not-working/Hey everyone, I’ve just upgraded to windows 10, however the start menu search has been randomly breaking. It just seems to load indefinitely. Thankfully there’s an…Mon, 10 Aug 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2015/07/04/angular-js-calling-services-twice-angular-js/https://whatibroke.com/2015/07/04/angular-js-calling-services-twice-angular-js/Hey everyone, I had a few of my AngularJS services being called twice. The issue turned out to be that I’d added a controller to both my route and my view: Removing…Sat, 04 Jul 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2015/07/04/error-injectormodulerr-module-error-angularjs/https://whatibroke.com/2015/07/04/error-injectormodulerr-module-error-angularjs/Hey everyone, Just getting back into angularjs and I came across the following error: Unknown provider: $routeProvider It turns out I that while I had included the…Sat, 04 Jul 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2015/06/18/tf30063-you-are-not-authorized-to-access-asxproject-tfs-onlinevisual-studio/https://whatibroke.com/2015/06/18/tf30063-you-are-not-authorized-to-access-asxproject-tfs-onlinevisual-studio/Hey everyone, I ran into the following issue while trying to install the HTML Agility Pack via Nuget today: TF30063: You are not authorized to access asxproject… This…Thu, 18 Jun 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2015/05/12/link-using-the-yahoo-finance-api/https://whatibroke.com/2015/05/12/link-using-the-yahoo-finance-api/Hey everyone, Just a quick link to a useful guide I came across for using the Yahoo Finance API: http://www.jarloo.com/yahoo_finance/ Kelly explains how to use the…Tue, 12 May 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2015/05/10/the-installer-has-encountered-an-unexpected-error-installing-this-package-this-may-indicate-a-problem-with-this-package-the-error-code-is-29506-sql-server-management-studio/https://whatibroke.com/2015/05/10/the-installer-has-encountered-an-unexpected-error-installing-this-package-this-may-indicate-a-problem-with-this-package-the-error-code-is-29506-sql-server-management-studio/Hey everyone, I ran into the following error while trying to install Sql Server Management Studio on Windows 8: The installer has encountered an unexpected error…Sun, 10 May 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2015/03/07/oldindex-must-be-a-valid-index-in-the-children-collection-visual-studio/https://whatibroke.com/2015/03/07/oldindex-must-be-a-valid-index-in-the-children-collection-visual-studio/Hey everyone, Just posting this in case anyone else runs into it. After unshelving, the following error kept popping up when I tried to open files using the solution…Sat, 07 Mar 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2015/03/07/repeat-a-character-x-times-with-c/https://whatibroke.com/2015/03/07/repeat-a-character-x-times-with-c/Hey everyone, Just a neat little trick I came across on Stackoverflow, repeating a character x times without using a loop: string result = new String(‘x’, 5); //xxxxx…Sat, 07 Mar 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2014/11/22/unable-to-start-apache-xampp/https://whatibroke.com/2014/11/22/unable-to-start-apache-xampp/Hey everyone, I was mucking around with xampp this morning and ran into the following issue with apache: 3:41:52 PM [main] Initializing Control Panel 3:41:52 PM…Sat, 22 Nov 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2014/10/22/resources-for-mocking-wcf/https://whatibroke.com/2014/10/22/resources-for-mocking-wcf/Hey everyone, Just a few links I came across for mocking WCF in case anyone else needs them. This tutorial was great: http://weblogs.asp.net/cibrax/unit-tests-for-wcf…Wed, 22 Oct 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2014/08/10/no-entity-framework-provider-found-for-the-ado-net-provider-with-invariant-name-system-data-sqlclient-mvc5/https://whatibroke.com/2014/08/10/no-entity-framework-provider-found-for-the-ado-net-provider-with-invariant-name-system-data-sqlclient-mvc5/Hey everyone, Just an error I came across while trying to use a new solution project: No Entity Framework provider found for the ADO.NET provider with invariant name…Sun, 10 Aug 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2014/08/09/change-default-mvc5-password-complexity-requirements-passwords-must-have-at-least-one-non-letter-or-digit-character-passwords-must-have-at-least-one-digit-0-9-passwords-must-have-at-leas/https://whatibroke.com/2014/08/09/change-default-mvc5-password-complexity-requirements-passwords-must-have-at-least-one-non-letter-or-digit-character-passwords-must-have-at-least-one-digit-0-9-passwords-must-have-at-leas/Hey everyone, I’ve started on a new MVC5 project and came across the following error message while trying to register a new user: Passwords must have at least one non…Sat, 09 Aug 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2014/07/27/unescape-string-in-watch-window-visual-studio/https://whatibroke.com/2014/07/27/unescape-string-in-watch-window-visual-studio/Hey everyone, Just a quick post on how to remove the escape characters from a string in the watch window. All you’ve got to do is append “,nq” (short for no quotes)…Sun, 27 Jul 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2014/07/24/how-to-open-the-same-file-twice-in-visual-studio-2/https://whatibroke.com/2014/07/24/how-to-open-the-same-file-twice-in-visual-studio-2/Hey everyone, Today I was working on a fairly large class and needed to compare two different areas of code. I’m used to using text editors such as notepad++ and…Thu, 24 Jul 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2014/06/28/view-generated-sql-in-entity-framework-ef/https://whatibroke.com/2014/06/28/view-generated-sql-in-entity-framework-ef/Hey everyone, Just a quick post on how to view the generated sql in entity framework. To start with, just add the following line to your db context constructor: With…Sat, 28 Jun 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2014/06/25/dragging-a-file-from-file-explorer-causes-google-chrome-to-crash/https://whatibroke.com/2014/06/25/dragging-a-file-from-file-explorer-causes-google-chrome-to-crash/Hey everyone, A team member found an interesting bug today that caused chrome to go non-responsive. The cause was simply dragging a file from the file explorer onto a…Wed, 25 Jun 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2014/06/21/how-to-open-the-same-file-twice-in-visual-studio/https://whatibroke.com/2014/06/21/how-to-open-the-same-file-twice-in-visual-studio/Hey everyone, I was working on a fairly large class in visual studio and having a bit of trouble comparing two different areas within it. Thankfully, StackOverflow…Sat, 21 Jun 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2014/05/24/how-to-stop-text-taking-up-more-than-one-line-css/https://whatibroke.com/2014/05/24/how-to-stop-text-taking-up-more-than-one-line-css/Hey everyone, Just a quick post on how to stop text taking up more than one line using only CSS: You can check it out using this fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/wb5m7/…Sat, 24 May 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2014/05/19/duplicate-type-name-within-an-assembly-entity-framework-ef/https://whatibroke.com/2014/05/19/duplicate-type-name-within-an-assembly-entity-framework-ef/Hey everyone, I ran into this error message while trying to debug a project today: “Duplicate type name within an assembly.” The workaround to this was actually…Mon, 19 May 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2014/05/18/twitter-authentication-401-unauthorized-mvc45/https://whatibroke.com/2014/05/18/twitter-authentication-401-unauthorized-mvc45/Hey everyone, Just testing out twitter authentication and ran into the following error: Response Status code does not indicate success: 401 (Unauthorized). … To fix…Sun, 18 May 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2014/05/17/unable-to-find-googleoauth2authenticationoptions-mvc45/https://whatibroke.com/2014/05/17/unable-to-find-googleoauth2authenticationoptions-mvc45/Hey everyone, I was following the guide provided via the startup.auth.cs link on how to add Google authentication to your app. The problem I hit was that the example…Sat, 17 May 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2014/05/04/decimal-values-for-bitcoin-c/https://whatibroke.com/2014/05/04/decimal-values-for-bitcoin-c/Hey everyone, Just linking to a few Stackoverflow posts that have helped me out with bitcoin precision requirements: Precision Values…Sun, 04 May 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2014/04/23/refresh-a-page-with-javascript/https://whatibroke.com/2014/04/23/refresh-a-page-with-javascript/Hey everyone, Just a quick post on how to force a page refresh with JavaScript (no jQuery required): Note that the reload function accepts a boolean parameter that…Wed, 23 Apr 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2014/04/12/detecting-filesize-jquery/https://whatibroke.com/2014/04/12/detecting-filesize-jquery/Hey everyone, Just a quick post on how to detect a file’s size with jQuery. I’m currently using a version of this for basic client side validation: Here’s the link to…Sat, 12 Apr 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2014/04/06/request-for-configurationpermission-failed-while-attempting-to-access-configuration-section-paypal-paypal-godaddy/https://whatibroke.com/2014/04/06/request-for-configurationpermission-failed-while-attempting-to-access-configuration-section-paypal-paypal-godaddy/Hey everyone, I ran into the following error today while working with PayPal on a GoDaddy hosted server: Request for ConfigurationPermission failed while attempting…Sun, 06 Apr 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2014/04/05/my-selling-tools-option-missing-paypal/https://whatibroke.com/2014/04/05/my-selling-tools-option-missing-paypal/Hey everyone, For some reason the “My Selling Tools” option is now missing on my production account. Unfortunately the only way to get around this that I’ve come…Sat, 05 Apr 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2014/03/20/rendering-a-view-to-a-string-email-templates-in-mvc4/https://whatibroke.com/2014/03/20/rendering-a-view-to-a-string-email-templates-in-mvc4/Hey everyone, This is just a short post showing how to render views as strings. I’ve used this as a quick way to generate email templates. The logic to render a view…Thu, 20 Mar 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2014/03/16/rails-flash-messages-in-mvc4/https://whatibroke.com/2014/03/16/rails-flash-messages-in-mvc4/Hey everyone, Coming from Rails I’d grown quite fond of flash messages. Unfortunately there isn’t a built in way of doing this in MVC4. Luckily, there’s a five minute…Sun, 16 Mar 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2014/03/16/redirect-to-root-c-mvc4/https://whatibroke.com/2014/03/16/redirect-to-root-c-mvc4/Hey everyone, Just a quick one, how to redirect to root from a controller: For more info, checkout this Stackoverflow post: http://stackoverflow.com/a/10292039/522859Sun, 16 Mar 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2014/03/15/twitter-bootstrap-carousel-only-css/https://whatibroke.com/2014/03/15/twitter-bootstrap-carousel-only-css/Hey everyone, I ran into a bit of an issue today with my stylesheet conflicting with Bootstrap. After a bit of tinkering I realised that all I really needed from…Sat, 15 Mar 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2014/03/12/how-to-get-a-javascript-stack-trace-chrome-console/https://whatibroke.com/2014/03/12/how-to-get-a-javascript-stack-trace-chrome-console/Hey everyone, Just a quick post on something useful I came across today. In JavaScript you can access the stack trace via console using the following command (ctrl +…Wed, 12 Mar 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2014/03/11/chrome-replacing-strings-with-ellipses-chrome-console/https://whatibroke.com/2014/03/11/chrome-replacing-strings-with-ellipses-chrome-console/Hey everyone, Ran into a bit of an issue today where a url was being shortened in Chrome’s console. It turns out that there’s a quick command you can use to copy the…Tue, 11 Mar 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2014/03/05/sending-emails-mvc4-on-godaddy/https://whatibroke.com/2014/03/05/sending-emails-mvc4-on-godaddy/Hey everyone, Just a really basic model that can be used to send emails on GoDaddy in MVC4. The model: Using it in a controller: Update: For a quick tutorial on how…Wed, 05 Mar 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2014/03/05/unable-to-add-scriptsservicesorderservice-js-to-the-web-site-an-unknown-wininet-error-has-occurred-code-12113/https://whatibroke.com/2014/03/05/unable-to-add-scriptsservicesorderservice-js-to-the-web-site-an-unknown-wininet-error-has-occurred-code-12113/Hey everyone, I ran into the following error while trying to publish via FTP to GoDaddy using Visual Studio 2013: Unable to add ‘Scripts/services/OrderService.js’ to…Wed, 05 Mar 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2014/03/02/paypal-ipn-response-not-returning-a-pay_key-value/https://whatibroke.com/2014/03/02/paypal-ipn-response-not-returning-a-pay_key-value/Hey everyone, In order to verify that a pay response is legitimate, PayPal provides a unique token for each request. This token can then be matched against payment…Sun, 02 Mar 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2014/02/14/the-configuration-section-customerrors-cannot-be-read-because-it-is-missing-a-section-declaration-azure/https://whatibroke.com/2014/02/14/the-configuration-section-customerrors-cannot-be-read-because-it-is-missing-a-section-declaration-azure/Hey everyone, The configuration section ‘customErrors’ cannot be read because it is missing a section declaration I started receiving this error after I added the…Fri, 14 Feb 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2014/02/01/952/https://whatibroke.com/2014/02/01/952/Hey everyone, I’ve just upgraded to Visual Studio 2013 and ran into the following while trying to run IIS express: Failed to register URL…Sat, 01 Feb 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2014/01/25/discussions-gone-google-search/https://whatibroke.com/2014/01/25/discussions-gone-google-search/It looks like Google has removed the discussions search filter for some browsers (currently using Chrome Version 32.0.1700.76 m). Hoping this is a bug and not another…Sat, 25 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2014/01/08/random-class-directive-angularjs/https://whatibroke.com/2014/01/08/random-class-directive-angularjs/Hey everyone, Just another small directive. This one adds a random class from the provided array to the element. Check out this fiddle to see the demo:…Wed, 08 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2014/01/06/ef-generated-migrations-not-including-new-model-empty-updown/https://whatibroke.com/2014/01/06/ef-generated-migrations-not-including-new-model-empty-updown/Hey everyone, A quick issue I ran into today, my generated migrations weren’t detecting any of the models I’d added – only changes to existing models. Unfortunately…Mon, 06 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2014/01/04/configuring-custom-settings-paypal-c-sdk/https://whatibroke.com/2014/01/04/configuring-custom-settings-paypal-c-sdk/Hey everyone, I’ve been mucking around with the C# SDK for PayPal Adaptive Payments. Unfortunately the docs aren’t too great and the samples are a little confusing…Sat, 04 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2014/01/04/working-ipn-handler-with-parallel-payments-paypal-adaptive-payments/https://whatibroke.com/2014/01/04/working-ipn-handler-with-parallel-payments-paypal-adaptive-payments/Hey everyone, Just a dummy implementation of a Parallel Payment and an accompanying IPN Handler using the C#/.NET SDK. Feel free to use it however you like.Sat, 04 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2013/12/29/a-project-with-an-output-type-of-class-library-cannot-be-started-directly-mvc-project-with-class-library/https://whatibroke.com/2013/12/29/a-project-with-an-output-type-of-class-library-cannot-be-started-directly-mvc-project-with-class-library/Hey everyone, Just another quick post for fixing the following error in a multi-project solution: A project with an output type of class library cannot be started…Sun, 29 Dec 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2013/12/29/application-id-paypal-sandbox/https://whatibroke.com/2013/12/29/application-id-paypal-sandbox/Hey everyone, Just setting up an app that using the .NET Adaptive Payments SDK. Looking through the sandbox I was able to find the api signature, password and…Sun, 29 Dec 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2013/12/27/route-parameters-angularjs/https://whatibroke.com/2013/12/27/route-parameters-angularjs/Hey everyone, This is just a quick post on what I did to get my routes working properly with AngularJS. My routes looked like this: And then to access the ID…Fri, 27 Dec 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2013/12/24/there-is-already-an-open-datareader-associated-with-this-command-which-must-be-closed-first-asp-net-mvc/https://whatibroke.com/2013/12/24/there-is-already-an-open-datareader-associated-with-this-command-which-must-be-closed-first-asp-net-mvc/Hey everyone, I ran into the following error this morning: There is already an open DataReader associated with this Command which must be closed first. It turns out…Tue, 24 Dec 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2013/11/15/timeselector-timepicker-directive-angularjs/https://whatibroke.com/2013/11/15/timeselector-timepicker-directive-angularjs/Hey everyone, I’ve been mucking around with directives for that last few days and one of my requirements has been a simple timepicker. Nothing too fancy, but if…Fri, 15 Nov 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2013/11/14/passing-parameters-from-a-directive-to-a-function-angularjs/https://whatibroke.com/2013/11/14/passing-parameters-from-a-directive-to-a-function-angularjs/Hey everyone, This is just a quick post to help out anyone who runs into the same problems with directives that I did today. I was able to call the controllers…Thu, 14 Nov 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2013/11/13/select-list-ng-select-angularjs/https://whatibroke.com/2013/11/13/select-list-ng-select-angularjs/Hey everyone, Just a quick post on how to do up a select list in AngularJS. This one took a bit of time to work out, particularly the display/value pairing. HTML:…Wed, 13 Nov 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2013/11/12/suddenly-getting-the-entityframework-package-is-not-installed-on-project-asp-net-mvc/https://whatibroke.com/2013/11/12/suddenly-getting-the-entityframework-package-is-not-installed-on-project-asp-net-mvc/Hey everyone, I am working on a small project done in ASP.NET MVC4 and started getting the following error: The EntityFramework package is not installed on project ”.…Tue, 12 Nov 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2013/11/09/forcing-a-link-to-behave-normally-angularjs/https://whatibroke.com/2013/11/09/forcing-a-link-to-behave-normally-angularjs/Hey everyone, Another quick post. Working with AngularJS this morning I had a need for a link to redirect to a login page that was not contained within the “angular”…Sat, 09 Nov 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2013/11/09/you-must-call-the-websecurity-initializedatabaseconnection-method-before-you-call-any-other-method-of-the-websecurity-class-this-call-should-be-placed-in-an-_appstart-cshtml-file-in-the-root/https://whatibroke.com/2013/11/09/you-must-call-the-websecurity-initializedatabaseconnection-method-before-you-call-any-other-method-of-the-websecurity-class-this-call-should-be-placed-in-an-_appstart-cshtml-file-in-the-root/Hey everyone, Just another small issue I ran into while attempting to retrieve a user’s ID: You must call the “WebSecurity.InitializeDatabaseConnection” method before…Sat, 09 Nov 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2013/11/07/json-issue-this-request-has-been-blocked-because-sensitive-information-mvc/https://whatibroke.com/2013/11/07/json-issue-this-request-has-been-blocked-because-sensitive-information-mvc/Hey everyone, Started redoing Learner Lessons in MVC4 and AngularJS today. I ran into this little issue while trying to retrieve JSON: This request has been blocked…Thu, 07 Nov 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2013/09/20/movies-mdf-not-in-app_data-folder-mvc4-tutorial/https://whatibroke.com/2013/09/20/movies-mdf-not-in-app_data-folder-mvc4-tutorial/Hey everyone, I’ve decided to take a look MVC4 (C#) and have just started the Movies tutorial. Unfortunately I ran into a bit of trouble with the database setup, for…Fri, 20 Sep 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2013/09/17/creating-a-starts-with-filter-in-angularjs/https://whatibroke.com/2013/09/17/creating-a-starts-with-filter-in-angularjs/Hey everyone, Just a quick post on how to create a simply custom filter in AngularJS. We’ll be using the same regions objects as the other day: We’ll create the…Tue, 17 Sep 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2013/09/17/ng-class-with-ng-repeat-angularjs/https://whatibroke.com/2013/09/17/ng-class-with-ng-repeat-angularjs/Hey everyone, Just another quick AngularJS post. This one is for using ng-class with ng-repeat. The goal here is to have a class applied to the non-selected elements.…Tue, 17 Sep 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2013/09/15/filter-by-object-property-in-ng-repeat-angularjs/https://whatibroke.com/2013/09/15/filter-by-object-property-in-ng-repeat-angularjs/Hey everyone, Just a quick post on how to filter by a property when using ng-repeat. To start with, we’ll use the following objects: Then assuming you want to filter…Sun, 15 Sep 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2013/08/27/angularjs-nganimate-transitions-basic-demo/https://whatibroke.com/2013/08/27/angularjs-nganimate-transitions-basic-demo/Hey everyone, I’ve just starting using Angular and went to do a few animations. I had a bit of trouble trying to find anywhere that mentioned what each class does.…Tue, 27 Aug 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2013/08/14/chrome-incognito-mode-not-working-registry-fix/https://whatibroke.com/2013/08/14/chrome-incognito-mode-not-working-registry-fix/Hey everyone, I use incognito mode at work as a quick test for cookie/caching issues. I ran into a bit of an issue with it this morning after an MOE update yesterday.…Wed, 14 Aug 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2013/08/11/cannot-set-property-show-of-undefined-at-new-deathraymenucontroller-angular-js/https://whatibroke.com/2013/08/11/cannot-set-property-show-of-undefined-at-new-deathraymenucontroller-angular-js/Hey everyone, I’ve just started working my way through AngularJS by Brad Green & Shyam Seshadri. Unfortunately I ran into a bit of an issue on page 23 (line 19): The…Sun, 11 Aug 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2013/08/07/wget-or-curl-on-windows/https://whatibroke.com/2013/08/07/wget-or-curl-on-windows/Hey everyone, Just a quick post on a Window’s equivalent to wget/curl. To start, you’ll need to open PowerShell (run > powershell.exe). To retrieve the page, you’ll…Wed, 07 Aug 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2013/07/24/tfn-generator/https://whatibroke.com/2013/07/24/tfn-generator/There’s now an easier to access version of this tool available at the following link: Australian Tax File Number (TFN) Generator Along with a few other widgets that…Wed, 24 Jul 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2013/07/17/recording-ajax-requests-with-google-analtics/https://whatibroke.com/2013/07/17/recording-ajax-requests-with-google-analtics/Hey everyone, I’ve just finished setting this up on an AJAX-heavy site I’m working on. It’s all pretty easy to setup, copy the following code and use it to replace…Wed, 17 Jul 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2013/07/14/how-to-customise-sharethis-settings-sharethis/https://whatibroke.com/2013/07/14/how-to-customise-sharethis-settings-sharethis/Hey everyone, I’ve just added ShareThis to a website I’m currently working on. It’s basically a generator for all your typical social network plugins (Facebook Like,…Sun, 14 Jul 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2013/07/10/missing-partial-json-response-ruby-on-rails/https://whatibroke.com/2013/07/10/missing-partial-json-response-ruby-on-rails/Hey everyone, I’ve just added pagination (Kaminari) to make an infinite scroll list a little easier to use. Unfortunately, I ran into the following error – had me…Wed, 10 Jul 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2013/07/09/stop-a-link-from-going-anywhere-cssjavascript/https://whatibroke.com/2013/07/09/stop-a-link-from-going-anywhere-cssjavascript/Hey everyone, Another quick one – how to stop a link from doing anything. I’ve just come across a need to use a link that acts as a button. A slight UI issue with…Tue, 09 Jul 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2013/07/08/disable-word-wrap-sublime-text/https://whatibroke.com/2013/07/08/disable-word-wrap-sublime-text/Hey everyone, This one is pretty obvious, but just in case anyone is having trouble finding it: If you want to alter the default settings, the following seems to…Mon, 08 Jul 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2013/07/04/ora-28000-the-account-is-locked-peoplesoft/https://whatibroke.com/2013/07/04/ora-28000-the-account-is-locked-peoplesoft/Hey everyone, Just a small PeopleSoft issue I ran into while running an SQR: For some reason the sysadm account had been locked, thankfully there’s a fairly easy fix:…Thu, 04 Jul 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2013/06/27/coinroll-it-betting-bot-martingale-system/https://whatibroke.com/2013/06/27/coinroll-it-betting-bot-martingale-system/Hey everyone, I received an odd request for a script the other day – a bot for an bitcoin gambling website. The request was for a simple JavaScript bookmarklet that…Thu, 27 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2013/04/28/amazon-s3-images-expiring-carrierwave-ruby-on-rails/https://whatibroke.com/2013/04/28/amazon-s3-images-expiring-carrierwave-ruby-on-rails/Hey everyone, After working with CarrierWave for a couple of days a few of my images started disappearing. It took a while to work out what was causing it, but…Sun, 28 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2013/04/28/warning-s3putobject-requesttimetooskewed-carrierwave-ruby-on-rails/https://whatibroke.com/2013/04/28/warning-s3putobject-requesttimetooskewed-carrierwave-ruby-on-rails/Hey everyone, Another issue I came across while working with CarrierWave. After rebooting a VM Amazon started too complain “request time too skewed”: Warning:…Sun, 28 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2013/04/27/exconerrorssocketerror-broken-pipe-errnoepipe-ruby-on-rails/https://whatibroke.com/2013/04/27/exconerrorssocketerror-broken-pipe-errnoepipe-ruby-on-rails/Hey everyone, I was having a bit of trouble with CarrierWave on Amazon S3 today. When attempting to upload files that were larger than ~150kb I received one of the…Sat, 27 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2013/04/27/retrieving-thumbnail-from-an-animated-gif-carrierwave/https://whatibroke.com/2013/04/27/retrieving-thumbnail-from-an-animated-gif-carrierwave/Hey everyone, I’ve been mucking around with CarrierWave today and ran into a bit of an issue. When creating a thumbnail from an animated gif the thumbnail was also…Sat, 27 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2013/04/20/remote-json-source-ruby-on-rails/https://whatibroke.com/2013/04/20/remote-json-source-ruby-on-rails/Hey everyone, Just a quick post on how to retrieve a remote JSON source so I don’t forget. That’s all there is to it, let me know if you have any problems!Sat, 20 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2013/04/12/blank-row-in-select_tag-ruby-on-rails/https://whatibroke.com/2013/04/12/blank-row-in-select_tag-ruby-on-rails/Hey everyone, Just a quick post on how to include a blank row or prompt value when using a select_tag in rails: Let me know if you have any issues.Fri, 12 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2013/03/13/simple-stagingtest-environment-with-heroku-ruby-on-rails/https://whatibroke.com/2013/03/13/simple-stagingtest-environment-with-heroku-ruby-on-rails/Hey everyone, This is just a quick guide on how to create a test/staging environment with Heroku. For those of you using git branches etc, the following may come in…Wed, 13 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2013/01/28/assetsprecompile-rake-aborted-heroku/https://whatibroke.com/2013/01/28/assetsprecompile-rake-aborted-heroku/Hey everyone, I ran into the following error over the weekend while trying to push to heroku: Running: rake assets:precompile rake aborted! could not connect to…Mon, 28 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2013/01/26/browser-out-of-date-javascript-plugin/https://whatibroke.com/2013/01/26/browser-out-of-date-javascript-plugin/Hey everyone, I’m about to launch a new site and was looking into a quick and easy way to advise users with older browsers to upgrade. A bit of a Google revealed…Sat, 26 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2013/01/16/dropdown-button-twitter-bootstrap/https://whatibroke.com/2013/01/16/dropdown-button-twitter-bootstrap/Hey everyone, Just a quick post on how to create a dropdown button using Twitter Bootstrap. It’s pretty straight forward, once you’ve included all your CSS etc just…Wed, 16 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2013/01/02/installing-sql-developer-on-ubuntu-make-sqldeveloper-package-chmod-missing-operand-after-755%e2%80%b2/https://whatibroke.com/2013/01/02/installing-sql-developer-on-ubuntu-make-sqldeveloper-package-chmod-missing-operand-after-755%e2%80%b2/Hey everyone, I was following a guide while trying to install SQL Developer on Ubuntu, however I ran into the following error: make-sqldeveloper-package chmod:…Wed, 02 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2013/01/01/change-current-day-color-jquery-fullcalendar/https://whatibroke.com/2013/01/01/change-current-day-color-jquery-fullcalendar/Hey everyone, Just a quick post on how to change a few of the styles in FullCalendar. All you need to do is add these after the default styles are loaded:Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2013/01/01/how-to-block-paypal-echeque-payments/https://whatibroke.com/2013/01/01/how-to-block-paypal-echeque-payments/Hey everyone, Just a quick post on how to block eCheque payments. These are payments that take up to seven days to process and be approved. The site I am currently…Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2012/12/27/warn-could-not-determine-content-length-of-response-body-ruby-on-rails/https://whatibroke.com/2012/12/27/warn-could-not-determine-content-length-of-response-body-ruby-on-rails/Hey everyone I was going through my development logs today and noticed that the following line was appearing everywhere: While nothing appeared to be wrong, it made…Thu, 27 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2012/12/15/events-only-showing-in-month-view-fullcalendar/https://whatibroke.com/2012/12/15/events-only-showing-in-month-view-fullcalendar/Hey everyone, Ran into a bit of a problem with FullCalendar today after setting up a JSON feed. My events were only appearing in the month view. This StackOverflow…Sat, 15 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2012/12/14/the-name-is-either-already-used-or-reserved-by-ruby-on-rails/https://whatibroke.com/2012/12/14/the-name-is-either-already-used-or-reserved-by-ruby-on-rails/Hey everyone, I ran into the following error while attempting to create a new model called calendar today: It turns out that this was due to the fact that my…Fri, 14 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2012/12/07/refresh-folder-hotkey-sublime-text-2/https://whatibroke.com/2012/12/07/refresh-folder-hotkey-sublime-text-2/Hey everyone, Just a quick post on how to setup a refresh hotkey in Sublime on Windows. All you have to do is the following: 1) Open sublime 2) Select Preferences…Fri, 07 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2012/12/02/fullcalendar-with-client-side-event-updates/https://whatibroke.com/2012/12/02/fullcalendar-with-client-side-event-updates/Hey everyone, I’ve been mucking around with FullCalendar recently and decided to share one of the prototypes I’ve ended up with. It basically lets the user change the…Sun, 02 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2012/11/24/format-json-jsonlint/https://whatibroke.com/2012/11/24/format-json-jsonlint/Hey everyone, Just a site that I came across today that was pretty useful for JSON: http://jsonlint.com/ I’ve been working with jQuery FullCalendar and needed some…Sat, 24 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2012/11/13/fields-missing-from-jquery-post-serialize-data/https://whatibroke.com/2012/11/13/fields-missing-from-jquery-post-serialize-data/Hey everyone, I was using jquery’s serialize method to post completed form data only to find that a number of my fields were missing. Thanks to this stackoverflow…Tue, 13 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2012/11/13/jquery-datetimepicker-with-bootstrap/https://whatibroke.com/2012/11/13/jquery-datetimepicker-with-bootstrap/Hey everyone, I ran into a bit of trouble today trying to get datetimepicker to work within bootstrap tabs. The dialog appeared however none of the buttons seemed to…Tue, 13 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2012/11/09/preg_match-function-preg-match-delimiter-must-not-be-alphanumeric-or-backslash-cakephp/https://whatibroke.com/2012/11/09/preg_match-function-preg-match-delimiter-must-not-be-alphanumeric-or-backslash-cakephp/Hey everyone, Ran into the following error while I was mucking around with CakePHP today: The error seemed a little weird as I wasn’t using any regex. It turned out…Fri, 09 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2012/11/04/remove-disabled-attribute-twitter-bootstrap/https://whatibroke.com/2012/11/04/remove-disabled-attribute-twitter-bootstrap/Hey everyone, I was using Bootstrap’s disabled attribute today and just needed a way to remove it. Once again, jQuery has a quick and easy way to do this: There’s a…Sun, 04 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2012/11/03/how-to-reset-id-of-an-element-jquery/https://whatibroke.com/2012/11/03/how-to-reset-id-of-an-element-jquery/Hey All, Just a quick post on how to set the ID of an element (in this case a div) with jQuery. I needed to use this to dynamically clone elements. The script above…Sat, 03 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2012/11/03/paypal_adaptive-ipn-verification-invalid-ruby-on-rails/https://whatibroke.com/2012/11/03/paypal_adaptive-ipn-verification-invalid-ruby-on-rails/Hey everyone, I’ve been working with the PayPal_Adaptive gem recently and unfortunately I’ve run into a few issues. The latest of these has been that that my IPN…Sat, 03 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2012/10/27/opensslpkeyrsaerror-neither-pub-key-nor-priv-key-nested-asn1-error-adaptive-payments-gem/https://whatibroke.com/2012/10/27/opensslpkeyrsaerror-neither-pub-key-nor-priv-key-nested-asn1-error-adaptive-payments-gem/Hey everyone, I’ve been mucking around with PayPal for a while and decided to try out the adaptive_payments gem by Tommy Chheng. Unfortunately I ran into the…Sat, 27 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2012/10/26/additional-logging-heroku/https://whatibroke.com/2012/10/26/additional-logging-heroku/Hey everyone, I needed to do a fair bit of logging and came across a heroku guide that shows how to make things a little easier. Change logging level to debug: heroku…Fri, 26 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2012/10/25/blocking-duplicate-payment-paypal/https://whatibroke.com/2012/10/25/blocking-duplicate-payment-paypal/Hey everyone, Just a quick post on how to block duplicate payments with PayPal. All you have to do is pass an invoice parameter and then select the ‘block multiple…Thu, 25 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2012/10/24/uploadify-limit-to-one-upload-only/https://whatibroke.com/2012/10/24/uploadify-limit-to-one-upload-only/Hey everyone, Just a quick post detailing how to limit uploadify to a single file. Simply add the following settings to your uploadify initialisation: multi: false…Wed, 24 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2012/10/22/view-last-query-executed-oracle/https://whatibroke.com/2012/10/22/view-last-query-executed-oracle/Hey all, Just a quick post on how to view recent queries run into an Oracle database: CheersMon, 22 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2012/10/11/git-with-kdiff3-windows/https://whatibroke.com/2012/10/11/git-with-kdiff3-windows/Hey all, Just a quick post showing the config I needed to use in order to get KDiff3 working with git. It took a while to get this working so hopefully it’ll be able…Thu, 11 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2012/09/15/recreate-database-ruby-on-rails/https://whatibroke.com/2012/09/15/recreate-database-ruby-on-rails/Hey everyone, Due to an issue with a few migrations in a dev environment I needed to recreate the database. A quick Google search revealed that it is possible to do…Sat, 15 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2012/09/08/copy-syntax-highlighting-to-word/https://whatibroke.com/2012/09/08/copy-syntax-highlighting-to-word/Hey everyone, In a previous post I gave a quick example of how to copy syntax highlight from Notepad++ to word (http://www.whatibroke.com/?p=192), I’ve recently been…Sat, 08 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2012/09/02/setup-rvm-on-ubuntu-ruby-on-rails/https://whatibroke.com/2012/09/02/setup-rvm-on-ubuntu-ruby-on-rails/Hey everyone, I’ve just done a fresh install of RVM using the guide below. There were a few dependencies missing, but other than that it all went pretty smoothly.…Sun, 02 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2012/08/26/heroku-timezones-ruby-on-rails/https://whatibroke.com/2012/08/26/heroku-timezones-ruby-on-rails/Hey everyone, Just a quick post on how to adjust the timezone on Heroku, comes in handy when using the log files. There is a fairly detailed StackOverflow post at the…Sun, 26 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2012/08/08/oracle-number-of-weekdays-between-two-dates/https://whatibroke.com/2012/08/08/oracle-number-of-weekdays-between-two-dates/Hey everyone, Just a quick post on how to select the number of weekdays between two dates:Wed, 08 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2012/08/07/rails-casts-142-paypal-notifications/https://whatibroke.com/2012/08/07/rails-casts-142-paypal-notifications/Hey all, I ran into a bit of an issue in Rails Cast #142. I received the following error while testing the IPN: Simply replace the following line with the alternative…Tue, 07 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2012/08/07/sending-email-plsql/https://whatibroke.com/2012/08/07/sending-email-plsql/A quick post on how to send an email with PL/SQL. There’s a LOT of documentation available at the following link: http://www.orafaq.com/wiki/Send_mail_from_PL/SQLTue, 07 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2012/08/04/cannot-generate-tempfile-ruby-on-rails/https://whatibroke.com/2012/08/04/cannot-generate-tempfile-ruby-on-rails/Ran into the following problem, still not too sure what caused it but this seems to have fixed it: Error Just run the following: Let me know if you come across the…Sat, 04 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2012/08/04/paypal-platform-ruby-sdk-adaptive-payments/https://whatibroke.com/2012/08/04/paypal-platform-ruby-sdk-adaptive-payments/Hey everyone, This is the SDK for PayPal adaptive payments. I’ve just uploaded it to *hopefully* make it a little easier to find. Please note that it has not been…Sat, 04 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2012/06/11/has_secure_password-error-ruby-on-rails/https://whatibroke.com/2012/06/11/has_secure_password-error-ruby-on-rails/Ran into the following error while using has_secure_password: Thankfully the error is pretty self explanatory, you simply have to add the gem bcrypt-ruby: Then you…Mon, 11 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2012/06/06/reserved-words-oracle/https://whatibroke.com/2012/06/06/reserved-words-oracle/Just a quick post on how to check if a word is reserved using the v$reserved_words: Alernatively you can specify the word, i.e. to check if online is a reserved word,…Wed, 06 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2012/04/27/browse-folders-as-root-ubuntu/https://whatibroke.com/2012/04/27/browse-folders-as-root-ubuntu/Just a quick post on how to browse folders as root in Ubuntu. Simply enter the following: Once you’re in there you can view hidden files by pressing Ctrl+H. If, like…Fri, 27 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2012/04/27/sqlite3-h-is-missing-ruby-on-rails/https://whatibroke.com/2012/04/27/sqlite3-h-is-missing-ruby-on-rails/Just an error I ran into while running bundle install on a new ubuntu virtual: To fix it, simply run the following:Fri, 27 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2012/04/24/could-not-find-a-javascript-runtime-ruby-on-rails/https://whatibroke.com/2012/04/24/could-not-find-a-javascript-runtime-ruby-on-rails/Ran into the following issue today starting a new app on a virtual Ubuntu box: Thankfully there’s a quick fix, simply install nodejs: Let me know if you have any issues.Tue, 24 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2012/04/01/undefined-method-render_with_scope-devise-ruby-on-rails/https://whatibroke.com/2012/04/01/undefined-method-render_with_scope-devise-ruby-on-rails/I ran into the following error while trying to implement ReCaptcha with devise: The offending code: This error was caused by the fact that I’d followed an out of date…Sun, 01 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2012/03/29/post-http192-168-1-33000-406-not-acceptable-ajax-with-ruby-on-rails/https://whatibroke.com/2012/03/29/post-http192-168-1-33000-406-not-acceptable-ajax-with-ruby-on-rails/Just a quick post on an error I ran into today when trying to create an AJAX image upload with Ruby on Rails. When submitting an AJAX form I received the following…Thu, 29 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2012/03/27/modal-popup-twitter-bootstrap/https://whatibroke.com/2012/03/27/modal-popup-twitter-bootstrap/Just a quick post on how to create a modal popup using twitter bootstrap: Step #1: Add the following to a page element such as a link or button in order to open the…Tue, 27 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2012/03/26/unique-values-ruby-on-rails/https://whatibroke.com/2012/03/26/unique-values-ruby-on-rails/Just a quick post on how to select unique values in rails using the uniq operator:Mon, 26 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2012/03/18/popover-function-twitter-bootstrap/https://whatibroke.com/2012/03/18/popover-function-twitter-bootstrap/Just a quick post on how easy it is to implement a popover with twitter bootsrap: JavaScript: Form: Result: Popover - Twitter Bootstrap That’s all there is to it, if…Sun, 18 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2012/03/17/allow-html-string-ruby-on-rails/https://whatibroke.com/2012/03/17/allow-html-string-ruby-on-rails/Just a quick post on how to prevent escaping for HTML within a string. Simply use html_safe?. i.e. The following will show the bold tags as text: <b>GOOOOOOOGLE</b>…Sat, 17 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2012/03/14/unable-to-login-to-appdesigner-peoplesoft/https://whatibroke.com/2012/03/14/unable-to-login-to-appdesigner-peoplesoft/I couldn’t login to Application Designer today for some reason. I kept getting an “Invalid User ID and password for signon.” error despite my credentials being…Wed, 14 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2012/03/09/access-log-peoplesoft/https://whatibroke.com/2012/03/09/access-log-peoplesoft/I came across a requirement today where I needed to find out when a user had last logged into PeopleSoft. The record PSACCESSLOG came in handy here, it stores all of…Fri, 09 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2012/02/21/web-development-blog/https://whatibroke.com/2012/02/21/web-development-blog/Hey All, Just another Australian web development blog I’ve come across, it’s not entirely about rails but definitely worth a look if you get the time: Cameron Stitt –…Tue, 21 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2012/02/18/not-recognised-by-the-identify-command-paperclip/https://whatibroke.com/2012/02/18/not-recognised-by-the-identify-command-paperclip/Just a quick post on another problem I ran into while setting up PaperClip. When attempting to submit a form WITHOUT an image I received the following error message:…Sat, 18 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2012/02/18/paperclip-issues-ruby-on-rails/https://whatibroke.com/2012/02/18/paperclip-issues-ruby-on-rails/I finally decided to replace all my existing code to handle images with Paperclip. I was following the screencast by Emerson Lackey, #134 Paperclip, however I ran…Sat, 18 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2012/02/18/undefined-method-merge-for-5fixnum-hidden-field/https://whatibroke.com/2012/02/18/undefined-method-merge-for-5fixnum-hidden-field/Just a quick post on an error I ran into today while using hidden fields: Thankfully this is an easy fix, simply amend your code as follows: And that’s all there is…Sat, 18 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2012/02/04/creating-postcode-based-locations-rails/https://whatibroke.com/2012/02/04/creating-postcode-based-locations-rails/My goal for today was to populate a record with all of the Australian postcodes and their corresponding suburb and state descriptions. To do this I had to complete…Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2012/02/04/error-column-category-does-not-exist/https://whatibroke.com/2012/02/04/error-column-category-does-not-exist/I’ve recently switched from SQLite3 to PostGreSQL and came across the following error this morning: The following post solved the issues in one sentence:…Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2012/01/26/connect-to-database-postgresql/https://whatibroke.com/2012/01/26/connect-to-database-postgresql/This is just a quick post on how to connect to particular database via the console in PostGreSQL. First, make sure you’ve logged in – just swap my_app for your role…Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2012/01/22/heroku-upload-permission-denied/https://whatibroke.com/2012/01/22/heroku-upload-permission-denied/I ran into a bit of trouble uploading an app to heroku for the first time, I was unable to authenticate. This turned out to be an issue with my public key, in order…Sun, 22 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2012/01/22/postgresql-installation-error-ruby/https://whatibroke.com/2012/01/22/postgresql-installation-error-ruby/I ran into a bit of problem moving an app to a test Heroku host – I needed to install PostgreSQL. I added the following to my Gemfile: I then tried to run bundle…Sun, 22 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2012/01/22/stop-an-application-heroku/https://whatibroke.com/2012/01/22/stop-an-application-heroku/Just a quick post on how to stop an app on Heroku: This will display a static page to all visitors but still allows for migrations etc: Image unavailable in the…Sun, 22 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2012/01/03/unable-to-edit-files-uploaded-to-document-library-where-url-length-is-more-than-260-characters-sharepoint/https://whatibroke.com/2012/01/03/unable-to-edit-files-uploaded-to-document-library-where-url-length-is-more-than-260-characters-sharepoint/Just a quick problem I came across in SharePoint today when trying to edit a file: Unable to edit files uploaded to document library where url length is more than 260…Tue, 03 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2011/12/30/create-button-which-does-not-submit-ruby-on-rails/https://whatibroke.com/2011/12/30/create-button-which-does-not-submit-ruby-on-rails/Just another quick post – how to create a button which does not submit a form when it’s clicked: Let me know if you have any problems.Fri, 30 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2011/12/30/devise-overriding-controller-route-ruby-on-rails/https://whatibroke.com/2011/12/30/devise-overriding-controller-route-ruby-on-rails/I ran into a bit of a problem today after implementing a search form that appeared on every page. When the login page was loaded I received the following error: No…Fri, 30 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2011/12/30/start-rails-console-ruby-on-rails/https://whatibroke.com/2011/12/30/start-rails-console-ruby-on-rails/Just a quick post on the command to start the rails console: Here’s the documentation, it provides a pretty good summary of all the commands you’re likely to need.Fri, 30 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2011/12/29/re-index-sunspotsolr-ruby-on-rails/https://whatibroke.com/2011/12/29/re-index-sunspotsolr-ruby-on-rails/Just a very quick post on how to re-index Sunspot/Solr – simply open the console and enter the following command: That’s all there is to it, nice and easy!Thu, 29 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2011/12/29/uninstalling-a-gem-ruby-on-rails/https://whatibroke.com/2011/12/29/uninstalling-a-gem-ruby-on-rails/Due to a few recent issues with SunSpot (see my previous posts), I’ve decided to uninstall it until I have enough time to work on it properly. Once again, Ruby makes…Thu, 29 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2011/12/29/will_paginate-with-sunspot-ruby-on-rails/https://whatibroke.com/2011/12/29/will_paginate-with-sunspot-ruby-on-rails/Hey all, I’ve just gone through setting up will_paginate with sunspot 1.3, just thought I’d share in case anyone else has any troubles/improvements. In my case I’m…Thu, 29 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2011/12/28/activerecordhasmanythroughassociationnotfounderror-ruby-on-rails/https://whatibroke.com/2011/12/28/activerecordhasmanythroughassociationnotfounderror-ruby-on-rails/I ran into a bit of a problem with a has_many relationship in rails today: ActiveRecord::HasManyThroughAssociationNotFoundError in FeedbacksController#index … Could…Wed, 28 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2011/12/25/debugging-with-exceptions-ruby-on-rails/https://whatibroke.com/2011/12/25/debugging-with-exceptions-ruby-on-rails/Ran into a bit of trouble with a model today, after a bit of a google I came across this technique which helped me solve it: This simply allows you display variable…Sun, 25 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2011/12/25/undefined-method-to_sym-for-nilnilclass-ruby-on-rails-migration/https://whatibroke.com/2011/12/25/undefined-method-to_sym-for-nilnilclass-ruby-on-rails-migration/While trying to do a migration today I received the following message: undefined method `to_sym’ for nil:NilClass #After running a trace (rake db:migrate –trace)…Sun, 25 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2011/12/17/setting-default-slider-value-jquery-ui/https://whatibroke.com/2011/12/17/setting-default-slider-value-jquery-ui/Had a bit of a muck around with jQuery sliders today, just though I’d post the code I used to set a default value in case anyone else has a use for it: Just sub…Sat, 17 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2011/12/17/submit-form_for-to-custom-action-ruby-on-rails/https://whatibroke.com/2011/12/17/submit-form_for-to-custom-action-ruby-on-rails/Just another quick problem I ran into with rails this afternoon – how to submit a form_for to a custom action. Luckily there’s quite a bit on how to do this in the…Sat, 17 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2011/12/15/copying-text-from-notepad-to-microsoft-word/https://whatibroke.com/2011/12/15/copying-text-from-notepad-to-microsoft-word/In the middle of doing up some documentation I realised that the formatting and colors aren’t kept when you copy and paste from Notepad++ to Microsoft Word. Luckily…Thu, 15 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2011/12/15/error-when-trying-to-edit-a-sharepoint-document-sharepoint/https://whatibroke.com/2011/12/15/error-when-trying-to-edit-a-sharepoint-document-sharepoint/Ran into the following error when trying to open a word document stored on SharePoint today: The document could not be opened for editing. A Microsoft SharePoint…Thu, 15 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2011/12/15/how-to-edit-a-message-catalog-definition-peoplesoft/https://whatibroke.com/2011/12/15/how-to-edit-a-message-catalog-definition-peoplesoft/Editing a message catalog definition in PeopleSoft is pretty straight forward, simply browse to the following menu path: PeopleTools > Utilities > Administration >…Thu, 15 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2011/12/12/uncaught-typeerror-object-has-no-method-toggle-jquery/https://whatibroke.com/2011/12/12/uncaught-typeerror-object-has-no-method-toggle-jquery/Ran into a bit of a problem with jQuery today, not entirely sure what the issue was but apparently it did not like me using the .get() function. I received the…Mon, 12 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2011/12/10/flash-notice-appearing-twice-ruby-on-rails/https://whatibroke.com/2011/12/10/flash-notice-appearing-twice-ruby-on-rails/Ran into another flash notice issue, my messages were not disappearing after the first view. My code was as follows: It turns out that all you have to do to fix this…Sat, 10 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2011/12/07/sleep-function-within-peoplecode-peoplesoft/https://whatibroke.com/2011/12/07/sleep-function-within-peoplecode-peoplesoft/While at work today I discovered that there doesn’t appear to be any built in functionality to allow for a delay to be implemented within PeopleCode. Thankfully there…Wed, 07 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2011/12/07/validating-boolean-value-of-false-in-rails/https://whatibroke.com/2011/12/07/validating-boolean-value-of-false-in-rails/I came across a bit of a weird one this afternoon when trying to validate. Several of my fields appeared to be incorrectly flagged as not having a value. This is the…Wed, 07 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2011/12/04/errnoeconnrefused-in-ruby-on-rails/https://whatibroke.com/2011/12/04/errnoeconnrefused-in-ruby-on-rails/First problem of the morning – Errno::ECONNREFUSED in ProductsController#create. This one was actually a little bit tricky – for me anyway. The error seemed to imply…Sun, 04 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2011/12/04/link-smartscreen-live-com-google-analytics-referral/https://whatibroke.com/2011/12/04/link-smartscreen-live-com-google-analytics-referral/Well, today I was looking through the Google Analytics overview of the WhatIBroke.com and I noticed a referral I hadn’t seen before from link.smartscreen.live.com. I…Sun, 04 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2011/12/04/truncating-a-string-within-a-view-ruby-on-rails/https://whatibroke.com/2011/12/04/truncating-a-string-within-a-view-ruby-on-rails/Another quick post, just on how to truncate a string within a view. I used the following in order to ensure that my order_item title is never longer than 100…Sun, 04 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2011/12/03/adding-a-link-within-a-flash-noticemessage-ruby-on-rails/https://whatibroke.com/2011/12/03/adding-a-link-within-a-flash-noticemessage-ruby-on-rails/I came across an instance where I needed to add a link to flash notice tonight. Manually creating a hyperlink seems to work fine, however I was chasing a rubyish way…Sat, 03 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2011/12/03/custom-form-submit-button-text-ruby-on-rails/https://whatibroke.com/2011/12/03/custom-form-submit-button-text-ruby-on-rails/Just a quick post on how to set the text of a form submit button. By default, the tag will appear as follows: In order to change the text all you have to do is the…Sat, 03 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2011/12/03/error-324-neterr_empty_response/https://whatibroke.com/2011/12/03/error-324-neterr_empty_response/I managed to break my app again while playing around with the routes and a few redirects: No data received Unable to load the webpage because the server sent no data.…Sat, 03 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2011/12/03/no-http_referer-was-set-in-the-request-to-this-action-so-redirect_to-back-could-not-be-called-successfully/https://whatibroke.com/2011/12/03/no-http_referer-was-set-in-the-request-to-this-action-so-redirect_to-back-could-not-be-called-successfully/Well, I’ve managed to break my app again today – getting the following error message: ActionController::RedirectBackError in OrdersController#new No HTTP_REFERER was…Sat, 03 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2011/12/03/passing-variables-to-a-partial-from-a-view-ruby-on-rails/https://whatibroke.com/2011/12/03/passing-variables-to-a-partial-from-a-view-ruby-on-rails/Just another one of those things that I find myself needing to do from time to time. Luckily this is all pretty straight forward (thankyou Ruby on Rails!). Assuming…Sat, 03 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2011/12/03/validation-error-messages-not-display-ruby-on-rails/https://whatibroke.com/2011/12/03/validation-error-messages-not-display-ruby-on-rails/Just another quick problem I ran into, the validation was indicating that an error had occurred however it did not show what the error was: 1 error prohibited this…Sat, 03 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2011/12/02/how-to-view-table-structure-sqlite3/https://whatibroke.com/2011/12/02/how-to-view-table-structure-sqlite3/Just a quick post on how to view a table’s structure in SQLite3. Again, not something I’ve broken yet – more something I seem to keep forgetting. Simply start Sqlite:…Fri, 02 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2011/12/02/placing-button_to-on-same-line-ruby-on-rails/https://whatibroke.com/2011/12/02/placing-button_to-on-same-line-ruby-on-rails/This is a problem that had me confused for an embarrassingly long time. Rails wraps button_to elements within a form and a div. Unfortunately this will take up 100%…Fri, 02 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2011/12/02/rails-server-address-already-in-use/https://whatibroke.com/2011/12/02/rails-server-address-already-in-use/Well, looks like the first thing I’ve managed to break today is WEBrick – a web server for ruby on rails. The general idea behind the error message appears to be that…Fri, 02 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2011/12/02/routing-error/https://whatibroke.com/2011/12/02/routing-error/I ran into a fairly common routing error this morning, thankfully these are fairly easy to fix – usually! Routing Error No route matches [POST] “/orders/new” Simply…Fri, 02 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://whatibroke.com/2011/12/02/view-all-tables-sqlite3/https://whatibroke.com/2011/12/02/view-all-tables-sqlite3/Not really something that I’ve broken (yet), but definitely something I found useful when starting out with rails – how to view all tables: Start Sqlite3 i.e.…Fri, 02 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT