Archive for December 2009

Open Office: invisible page break

When working on an open office document, I periodically come across an invisible page break (there’s no blue bar above the new page and I can’t seem to get rid of it easily).
This always happens to me when I am using Open Office’s numbering to outline requirements. The page break is very annoying. When [...]

PowerBuilder 11 “Invalid character value for cast specification”

I was given the task of migrating a set of powerbuilder applications from version 8 to 11.5.
The PowerBuilder applications required a database connection. I went through their connection utility and the only connection type that I could get to work with my Microsoft SQL Server 2000 was ODBC. I configured it and PowerBuilder told me [...]