Emergency Notifications

2010 August 30
by r.claypool

I got a text message today from Nixle:

TBI: TEST AMBER Alert:
CHILD: Jane Doe 3 YO WF 38" 30lbs
SUSP: John Doe 35 YO WM 06 Red Ford Mustang ABC123 1-800-824-1004

Distributing information like this to thousands of people in mere seconds is awesome!  Now we just need a photo to go with it.   I bet there is an iPhone app for that.

GIS Q&A

2010 July 22
by r.claypool

GIS Stack Exchange

GIS Stack Exchange started a private Beta today and opens to the public in one week.

8/1/2010 Update: Now open.

How to Delete Multiple Builds in Hudson

2010 June 10
by r.claypool

Hudson is great for managing scheduled builds, but after a while the artifacts start to take up a considerable amount of space.

Deleting them one by one is possible, but Hudson will do this for you:

Note that this works retroactively. If you have 300 old builds and set the job to keep just 20, the next build will delete 281 builds.

Installing Mercurial (hg) into Adobe Flash Builder 4 (standalone installation)

2010 May 5

Flash Builder, Eclipse and Mercurial (Hg) are all new in my world, and I couldn’t find any instructions on getting them to play nicely together. If you are in the same boat, read on …

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401.x errors on IIS: Authentication Required

2010 March 15
by r.claypool

iis-authentiction-required

Quick Tip: Is your site suddenly requesting a user name and password?

Most likely this is triggered by insufficient file system permissions. The error logs at
%SYSTEMROOT%\System32\LogFiles\W3SVC###\*.log will narrow down your search and give the substatus and Win32
error codes for each HTTP 401.

David Wang has a great write up about this on his blog. Check it out for more details.

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