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Dennis Bottaro

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Windows 11 Cannot Join Domain

By dbottaro | April 24, 2025April 24, 2025 by dbottaro

The specified network name is no longer available. While attempting to add my first Windows 11 desktop to a Windows 2012 based domain I kept consistently getting a seemingly DNS related issue. Once clicking OK in the computer name dialog a second or so would go be and a “The specified network name is no…

Programming Tech

PyCharm 2024 UI Update

By dbottaro | December 18, 2024April 24, 2025 by dbottaro

Oh no… I had been running Pycharm 2023.1.3 for quite a while without paying any attention to the available updates… I hopped in to add a quick feature to my IT ticketing system and noticed the updates and clicked on it. This __this__ happened… I almost shit a brick in horror and wondered if I…

Programming Tech

PythonAnywhere: Something went wrong :-(

By dbottaro | May 31, 2024April 24, 2025 by dbottaro

Today, May31 2024, I went to load my ticket web app to create a ticket for one of my users and encountered the error: “Something went wrong” ending off with “Error Code: 504-backend.” I looked through my logs on the server and found a issues like the following: Server Log: Harakiri on Worker After checking…

Tech Web Design

Great Plugins: Fonts Plugin | Google Fonts Typography

By dbottaro | May 15, 2024May 21, 2024 by dbottaro

How can you add custom fonts to your WordPress blog in 2024? By using an updated modern alternative to Easy Google Fonts for customizing WordPress fonts. Fonts Plugin | Google Fonts Typography This is as simple as it can be – just select the font you would like for the website and the plugin handles…

Programming Tech

The PythonAnywhere Experience

By dbottaro | May 15, 2024May 21, 2024 by dbottaro

Deploying a Django 5 Application using PythonAnywhere I recently developed a simple ticket tracking system in Django for my own use to better manage requests from my team at the office. It consists of two main models User and Ticket with a TicketHistory coming one of these days. The simplicity of my models led me…

Programming Tech

Django File Uploads Fail

By dbottaro | February 7, 2024May 21, 2024 by dbottaro

While trying to add a simple “Attachments” feature to one of my applications I ran across an issue where a record with file could be added from the Django Admin, but would fail with a validation error when used in my forms. The error came down to my missing something from views.py in the form…

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Home Tech: Time Drift on Panasonic Phone System

By dbottaro | November 7, 2022May 21, 2024 by dbottaro

Recently my father-in-law sent us his old home phone system, a Panasonic 5 Handset KX-TGF544B. We haven’t setup our home phone from Comcast since we are 100% cell phone users, but since Dad had some trouble reaching us on our cell phones (literally no idea why…) he wanted us to setup the home phone. We…

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Installing Business Contact Manager 2010

By dbottaro | November 7, 2022November 7, 2022 by dbottaro

I needed to install Business Contact Manager for one of our remote sales team who wanted to try it out as an upgrade from his Excel tracking sheet he’s used for years. After initial research I found that it had been discontinued by Microsoft and thus the search really began. Finding the Proper Installer I…

Programming Tech Web Design

Django: Grouper – Show Additional Fields

By dbottaro | September 4, 2021May 21, 2024 by dbottaro

In a system I’m developing that handles scheduling, I had a need to add some additional data to a report group header. I tried a few different approaches but nothing worked until I created a custom method on the model I was reporting on. This worked and got the needed data on the report, but…

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AnyDesk: Remote Printing from Windows 7 Host

By dbottaro | April 9, 2020November 7, 2022 by dbottaro

I’ve come to enjoy and rely on AnyDesk since working from home under the CoViD-19 pandemic. But one thing was eluding me… Printing. During the installation of AnyDesk you are prompted to install the AnyDesk Printer. Even doing so does NOT work for Windows 7. According to the AnyDesk webiste you need to manually install…

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