Caffeinated Wisdom

I was getting a 0x1 error every time Windows Server 2008 ran my task. I had programmed the task to run a bat file that would run a jruby script. The messages in the log did not help me at all, so I took a look at my script’s log. The log showed that the script was not being run at all. To fix this problem I had to make sure to enter the folder that contains the script in the start in field when configuring the scheduled task. So even it says it’s optional, make sure you enter a correct value in that field or else, the task will run with windows\system32 as the current working directory.

I tried changing the SSL port number on my Tomcat server in my Windows Server 2008 machine and I kept getting the following error when going to the https version of my webapp: Socket bind failed: [730048] Only one usage of each socket address (protocol/network address/port) is normally permitted. To solve the problem I did the following: Re-installed apache using the Windows service installer and specifying the JDK’s JRE as the JRE to use. Set the keystoreFile attribute in the SSL connector tag in the server.xml file to a relative path. The path is based in Tomcat’s installation folder, so if you intalled it in c:\apache and specify ./mykey.bin in the  keystoreFile attribute, Tomcat will try to find the c:\apache\mykey.bin file.

RenWeb exports the formal name in the form "Smith, John". Sometimes I need to split the formal name field into first name (including middle name) and last name. To get the formula to split the name I found this link from Pearson Software Consulting, LLC . Their formula to get the last name works great for me, but they were splitting the middle name from the first name, so for the first name I changed their formula to the following: =TRIM(IF(ISERROR(FIND(",",A2,1)),A2,MID(A2,FIND(",",A2,1)+1,LEN(A2))))   To use the formula simply have the formal name in cell A2 and copy and paste the formula to another adjacent cell, such as B2. To get the first names of the rest of the people in the list simply use the auto fill values command from Excel.

RenWeb exports the formal name in the form "Smith, John". Sometimes I need to split the formal name field into first name (including middle name) and last name. To get the formula to split the name I found this link from Pearson Software Consulting, LLC . Their formula to get the last name works great for me, but they were splitting the middle name from the first name, so for the first name I changed their formula to the following: =TRIM(IF(ISERROR(FIND(",",A2,1)),A2,MID(A2,FIND(",",A2,1)+1,LEN(A2))))   To use the formula simply have the formal name in cell A2 and copy and paste the formula to another adjacent cell, such as B2. To get the first names of the rest of the people in the list simply use the auto fill values command from Excel.