Monthly Archives: April 2011

Macbook Mystery: Bluetooth “not available” resolved

My Macbook was slowing down. Safari became unresponsive. System froze, totally. Unusual, but when I restarted there was a strange version of the Bluetooth icon in the menu and the only item on the menu when clicked was “Bluetooth not available.” Poking around, some people suggested this indicated a need to reset SMC. Since I [...]

Integrating YouTrack with IDEA 10: Enable REST API!

If you get an HTTP 501 Error Code when trying to integrate YouTrack as a Task Server in IDEA, turns out you need to enable REST API access in the Settings for YouTrack. Thanks to http://89.163.94.184/issue/TW-14257 for the info, but the JetBrains guys should know to make this easier since they wrote both products…

Grails OpenID plugin problem and fix

Running Grails 1.3.7 and Groovy 1.7.9 I was getting this error on the OpenId plugin: groovy.lang.MissingMethodException: No signature of method: org.openid4java.consumer.ConsumerManager.authenticate() is applicable for argument types: (org.openid4java.discovery.DiscoveryInformation, org.codehaus.groovy.grails.web.util.StreamCharBuffer) values: [OpenID2 Change line 49 of OpenidController to cast the value to a String: String url = getReturnToUrl(redirectParams) def authReq = consumerManager.authenticate(discovered, url) Bob shamed me into [...]

Loving Time Machine at Other Intervals

I love TM, but I rarely ever use it to go get stuff. When I do, it’s generally going back a few days in time. What I hate about TM is how it is constantly interrupting my work and backing up a ton of stuff that gets touched in my regular work. So I’m really [...]