I wanted to know when I last installed the operating system on my computer. Let’s see how we can find that out on Windows, Linux and macOS. Windows Open a command prompt or the terminal and type systeminfo. You find the installation date in the field Original Install Date: This value gets overwritten when …
If you ever run into a problem with an iPhone and need to create a video of your screen, you can do that directly with the methods provided by iOS (back to iOS 13). First, open the Settings application and go the Control Centre. There you find an option for Screen Recording that you can …
For the last few months, the iOS WordPress application had more and more problems connecting to my self-hosted blog. Deleting it and reinstalling the app helped only for a short time. As there was no change in the situation with the new Jetpack application, I had to figure out what was wrong. The plugin configuration …
On a freshly installed computer, I got this error message when I installed a package with pip: error: Microsoft Visual C++ 14.0 or greater is required. Get it with “Microsoft C++ Build Tools”: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/visual-cpp-build-tools/ This error shows up because pip needs to compile a few files as part of the installation, but there are no …
After I updated SonarQube to version 9.7, I got this strange entry in the logs: Caused by: sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target Should you run into the same error, append a ;encrypt=false to the connection string to your SQL Server database:
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Before you can assign work items to a sprint (or an iteration) in Azure DevOps, someone needs to create those sprints. That boring task is a great candidate for delegation. Unfortunately, the only role that can do this work by default is the project administrator. Before you turn everyone into a project administrator, let me …
I had an annoying experience at the NDC workshop: when I tried to load the solution for the workshop, my Visual Studio immediately froze. It took me a few rounds to try to start Visual Studio without any code. But even then, Visual Studio was still unresponsive. If this happens to you, it is probably …
Back in Oslo at last. After an online edition of NDC Oslo in 2020 and the travel restrictions at the start of the Omicron wave in 2021, I haven’t been to Oslo for a while. Visiting in September is in many ways different from June. It is colder, and it gets dark early (around 7 …
If you wrote a comment in this blog in the past weeks, you got an error like this one: Warning: Attempt to read property “comment_ID” on null in /home/*/class-urvanov-syntax-highlighter-plugin.php on line 714 Warning: Attempt to read property “comment_ID” on null in /home/*/class-urvanov-syntax-highlighter-plugin.php on line 724 Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by …
Sometimes Visual Studio is strange. As I tried to disable a StyleCop rule in Visual Studio 2022, I got this error: The rule set file could not be updated. Cannot access a disposed object. Object name: ‘InvisibleEditor’ If this error keeps appearing after you close the .editorconfig file, your computer may have some cached data …