Friday, January 20, 2012

Force.com IDE v23 updated again

Eclipse shows 23.0.2.201201091635 is available now.  I have 23.0.1.201111041306.  What I'm looking for the new update to fix include:
  • App freeze when parsing testing results
  • Unable to expand custom fields under Standard Objects in the metadata browser (Add/Remove)

Stay tuned...

Thursday, January 19, 2012

Crashing Move Player

This is a follow-up post in a sense, to the one about getting Lucid to work on an old Dell X300.  With the tip provided in the Wiki about re-enabling KMS, I was able to get it running.  However I quickly ran into another problem: the Movie Player (Totem 2.30.2) bombed out when attempting any AVI file.  It's a complete crash, killing X as well as the whole display - I couldn't even get to any console.  Naturally it felt like still the Intel 8xx issue.  So, maybe it's time to come clean.

I read the Wiki again, and it looks like the more complete fix would be either upgrading the Intel driver, or just upgrading the back-ported kernel 3.0.  So I tried the less dramatic one - upgrading the Intel driver.  It's a simple straightforward install (you gotta love Apt!).  Once that's in and rebooted, I saw some improvement, but not enough.  Totem still crashed, but hurting no one else but itself.

Only one thing left to try: the 3.0 kernel.  Another painless apt-get - how could replacing the heart of the OS this easy?  Anyway, once rebooted, all looked well!  Three cheers to the Wiki people.

Monday, January 9, 2012

Ubuntu 10.04 upgrade caused blank screen upon rebooting

I'd have to say the upgrade process 10.04 (from either 8.04 or 9.10) has been excellent for me.  It had worked flawlessly for me from a powerful quad core 12 GB desktop to a meager netbook powered by Cyrix C7-M before I encountered this problem.  This happened on a Dell Latitude X300, a reliable machine served as light-duty server for me for years.  The upgrade went fine until after restarting, where I was greeted by a blank screen shortly after seeing the splash screen.  It turned out to be an issue with the graphics controller inside the old 855PM chipset (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Bugs/Lucidi8xxFreezes).  The Workaround A suggested in the wiki (re-enabling KMS, Kernel Mode Setting) worked for me.  I just dropped into root shell and ran

echo options i915 modeset=1 | tee /etc/modprobe.d/i915-kms.conf update-initramfs -u
The next rebooting went through without a hitch.

Thursday, January 5, 2012

Conga Composer endpoint URL

Usually it should be https://www.appextremes.com/apps/Conga/PointMerge.aspx, which I think is what's listed in the documentation.  You could also use https://www.appextremes.com/apps/Conga/PM.aspx, which seems to work the same except that it doesn't do the multi-select (SelectTemplates=1).  I noticed that when trying to modify a single template selection screen to add the multi-select... caused some head scratching before I saw the PM.aspx at the end.

Note that PM.aspx is the page redirected to even when you start with PointMerge.aspx.  Not sure if there's an advantage of using PM.aspx directly.