Praj's Blog

Deleting Stubborn “Stuff” in Microsoft Word

Love it or hate, if you work with computers you generally need to use Microsoft Word. One common problem is that it can be very hard to delete “stubborn” stuff from Microsoft Word, for example a table. If you can’t manage to delete something using the traditional way through menus, try highlighting the offending object (e.g all the cells in the table) and then pressing SHIFT + DELETE.

VMware shared folders can access mapped drives

Turns out that VMware shared folders in VMware workstation can access network shares (e.g. UNC paths) and network drives mapped on your host (main) computer. This can be really handy if you want to access a network share but can’t work out/be bothered setting it up in the VM (e.g for installing software). Simply add the folder and point to the appropriate network share.

It’s nice when something useful that should work, actually does work…

ActionMailer Timeouts

Using action mailer on my rails application, I was getting Timeout::Error messages in my phusion passenger logs when sending email through SMTP. However, testing the application locally on my PC, the emails were being sent without a problem. I came across this post in the Site5 forums which suggested changing the actual address in my SMTP configuration to localhost which fixed the issue.

A Rails Searchable API

Available from RailsAPI.com, you can either browse it online or download it and open it locally in your web browser. Fantastic stuff.

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