Skip to content

Monthly Archives: November 2007

“manual or distributed transaction mode”, ruby, rails, mssql, ado

Spent too much damn time debugging the database layer in rails again today. This was the error: OLE error code:80004005 in Microsoft OLE DB Provider for SQL Server Cannot create new connection because in manual or distributed transaction mode. This was getting thrown after an insert, and the problem was very non-obvious.  I found one […]

Setting up a computer for Flash development

There are several tutorials out there on how to do this, but they all differed a little, and figured I might as well note mine.  I’m replicating the setup I have at work onto a home computer, so this is my second time around. Download and install Eclipse, the java version should be just fine […]

Bored before work

I played around with the new wigflip toy, automotivator: