From the monthly archives:

April 2008

No Dialect mapping for JDBC type: -1

April 23, 2008

This Hibernate error came at me out of the blue while working on FilmSuggestions.com - I innocently added a constraint to one of my Grails domain models, setting the maxSize of one of the fields to 2000. This changed the table schema making the column type TEXT instead of VARCHAR.
The problem came from a native [...]

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Recycling electronic waste - www.thegreenpages.com.au

April 20, 2008

I’ve got a couple of old computers and a collection of components that are good for nothing in todays world. But I’ve had trouble finding somewhere that will take it off my hands and dispose of it in an environmentally friendly way. Imagine my surprise when I saw a google advert on my own blog [...]

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Rhythmbox

April 19, 2008

I’ve just been playing with RhythmBox for the first time, and am very pleasantly surprised. This application so far takes care of my music and podcast requirements, and also supports the iTunes links you see on so many sites.
You can either copy the iTunes link and add it manually, or in FireFox, clicking on the [...]

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Wordpress error - Allowed memory size of ## bytes exhausted

April 4, 2008

I just came across a problem using wordpress that stopped everything working - any request to the Wordpress site resulted in a blank page. In the log file for the host, I could see:
PHP Fatal error:  Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 14592 bytes) in <path to a plugin php file>
Removing [...]

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