Tuesday, February 19, 2019

Don't use an ampersand in the title of a macOS installer package

I recently created a macOS installer for an application using Jamf Pro's Composer, and was disappointed to find that when I went to run it, I got an error reading:

The operation couldn't be completed.
(com.apple.installer.pagecontroller error -1.)

I examined the name of the package I had created. This application has an ampersand in its name, and I put its version number, 6.0, at the end of the package name. I know that the period in the version number does not cause any issues, nor do spaces in the name, so the only odd one out is the ampersand. I removed it, rebuilt the package, and found that I could install it without issue.

So, in summary, don't use an ampersand in the title of a macOS installer package, or you'll get a very unhelpful error.

Thursday, February 7, 2019

Barco ClickShare and Microsoft Edge on Windows 10 build 1803+

If you have a computer that upgrades from Windows 10 build 1709 to build 1803 or newer, and Edge stops working, check to see if you have the Barco ClickShare extension pack installed. If you do, uninstall it, and install the updated version 1.1, which Barco claims should resolve this issue.

Tableau, TabPy, and the Case of No Input Rows

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