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What to do when Git commands fail on a Mac with invalid active developer error

Posted on September 19, 2016August 18, 2018 by Ellen

If you are using a Mac, and trying to run any Git commands results in an error like: xcrun: error: invalid active developer path (/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools), missing xcrun at: /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/xcrun On OS X, Git and many other

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Git, Mac OS X

Cursor duplicated or ghosted when font size increased on Windows Server 2012

Posted on September 22, 2015August 20, 2018 by ellen

After increasing the overall font-size to medium in the Display control panel in windows server 2012 when viewed through Microsoft Remote Desktop, the mouse cursor multiplied itself into triplets. Only the middle cursor was in

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Troubleshooting, Windows

How to fix a Share that is not shown in Computer Management in Windows Server 2012 R2

Posted on June 13, 2015September 30, 2018 by ellen

There are always a few gotchas when migrating between Windows Server versions. In older Windows Server versions,  shares I created by right clicking a folder and selecting Properties > Sharing would also be editable within

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IIS Management, Troubleshooting, Windows

How to restore the missing “x” in a JQuery UI dialog Close button

Posted on June 13, 2015August 20, 2018 by ellen

When building a new online course, we noticed that the “x” was missing from the jQuery UI dialog Close button in the upper right corner of the title bar. The image below shows the close

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Javascript, Web Building

Can’t delete files off SD card? How to fix

Posted on June 22, 2014 by ellen

I’ve used a 32G SD card for several years with no problem. This morning I tried to delete some folders from it and found that there was not “Move to Trash” selection in the menu.

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Hardware, Mac OS X, Photography, Troubleshooting

IIS 7 error – can’t bind new SSL certificate to a website

Posted on May 11, 2014 by ellen

On attempting to bind a new SSL certificate to a website in IIS7, if you get the error A specified logon session does not exist. It may already have been terminated …there are several workarounds

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IIS Management, Web Building

iPhoto corrupting photos

Posted on April 26, 2014 by ellen

I’ve always liked the streamlined workflow of iPhoto for rapid color correcting, cropping and straightening my photos before I upload them to Flickr. So I was dismayed to find after upgrading to version 9 that it

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iPhoto, Mac OS X, Photography, Troubleshooting

BBedit Grep Search: Strip HTML tags from every line

Posted on April 14, 2014August 20, 2018 by ellen

BBEdit’s Grep Search is a very handy tool for cleaning long text files. I recently had to move a form from a webpage into Qualtrics. In the original form there is a list of about

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BBedit, Snippets, Uncategorized

Javascript: Using a string as a function

Posted on April 13, 2014 by ellen

I’m working on a game framework where “trigger” objects have a property “clickhandler” that contains the name of the function to be executed on click. All items in the game are listed with their properties

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Javascript, Web Building

IIS 7 error: cannot write configuration file when trying to bind an SSL certificate to a site

Posted on April 13, 2014 by ellen

When binding a new certificate to a site in IIS Manager, if you get an errror like: filename: \\?\C:\Windows\system32\inetserv\config\applicationHost.config Error: cannot write configuration file …try restarting the server before trying anything else! This error looks

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IIS Management, Web Building

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