by Dave Boulden | May 20, 2021 | Developer
Have you just installed the trial of SAP Crystal Server 2020 and instantly found the web-based admin portal (Central Management Console) presents you with an unhelpful HTTP 500 error? I did. I contacted SAP for some help as the articles on their site that offer some...
by Dave Boulden | Sep 12, 2018 | Developer, Web development
I recently migrated a suite of websites from an end-of-life Windows 2008 Web server to a new VPS running Ubuntu and Plesk. Most of the changes involved replacing some minor use of ColdFusion with PHP equivalents in the website code and reapplying various DNS settings...
by Dave Boulden | Feb 9, 2017 | Developer, Telerik
Today I came across the stumbling block of passing multi-value parameters to a Stored Procedure. After some trial and error, I have discovered a way to do this. I had checked the Telerik Forum and found no suggestions for a solution. In fact the Telerik documentation...
by Dave Boulden | Mar 3, 2015 | Developer, Drupal
If you have ever tried to install Drush for administering Drupal on any shared hosting package, you will know it is a devilishly difficult task to get right! Some hosting firms supply some written information on how to achieve this. 1&1 is not one of them. Having...
by Dave Boulden | Jan 7, 2014 | DIY build, Music
To kick off 2014, I am streamlining my live gigging rig. The 2 keyboards (Roland Fantom G7 and Korg Kronos 73) will remain the same, but I am completely changing my stage monitoring setup. For several years I have used a small Soundcraft Compact 10 mixer feeding into...
by Dave Boulden | Oct 3, 2013 | CFML, Developer
Today I had a request from a valued customer to troubleshoot an issue with a web-service driven feature in their in-house CF-based sales system that stopped working after a server upgrade that saw them move from CF8 to CF10 and an OS upgrade to Win Server 2012 and...
by Dave Boulden | Mar 4, 2013 | DIY build
This is now the 3rd microphone mod I have embarked upon. This time around, I am implementing one of the popular micrphone mods out there, popularly known as the Apex 460 mod. In my case, however, the donor microphone is an Alctron HST-11a, which is identical to...
by Dave Boulden | Oct 28, 2012 | DIY build
Following on from the MXL 990 mod, I am now starting on modifying an Alctron GT-2B. This is a chinese built tube condenser with the standard format of PSU that allows a stepped nine-position sweep though omni, cardioid and figure-8 polar patterns. For the...
by Dave Boulden | Oct 25, 2012 | DIY build
This is the follow-on article from the previous blog post on the MXL990 modification. The job starts with dismantling the mic by unscrewing the retaining nut on the bottom of the mic body and then unscrewing the main lower body cover. Then unscrewing the 2 bolts that...
by Dave Boulden | Oct 17, 2012 | DIY build
I am just about to embark on a set of microphone modifications and builds after having been inspired by the Recording Hacks website. To this end I recently nabbed an MXL990 microphone off eBay for only £40 and thought it would make a suitable candidate for my first...
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