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Reader View in Firefox: why is it bad and how to disable it?
What's wrong with the Reader View in Firefox.
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Copy variables between SSIS packages
How to copy-paste multiple variables between SSIS packages.
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Economical mumbo-jumbo
Whilst browsing the Internet I recently ran into an interesting (and probably totally unreallistic) idea: universities should be free from…
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Next prime date
Dates in Ireland are usually written as DD MMM YYYY i.e. 5 Sep 2016 or 12 Jan 2000 and so…
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0, 1, 8, 144 (EN)
While surfing the Internet I recently found an interesting (although completely incomprehensible) proof of a conjecture stating that 0, 1,…
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Reflected-sound-of-underground-spirits, again
A little bird told me that car insurance prices are going up again this year – both in Ireland and…
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Dates clusterfuck: MSSQL vs Excel
Dates are usually the most error-prone element of various computer systems. There are so many different date formats, standards and…
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How to create an empty file in Windows cmd shell
I faced an interesting[citation needed] task recently. For each file sent over via the ftp channel I was supposed to…
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Xenial Xerxus and WordPress – upgrading your VPS
It is very important to keep your software updated. Forget to upgrade your apache to the latest version and you’re…
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UTF != UTF
I have recently faced a very annoying issue with one of the ETL processes. Very annoying issues are often easily…
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WordPress: conditional widgets
Have you ever pondered over how to make a WordPress widget (in)visible only on certain pages, or categories, or just…
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Sh*t happens
As Confucius used to say, shit happens. He was a smart lad so there is no point not to…
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„I’m lazy, not stupid”
This is what my fellow colleague used to say when someone was trying to explain Things to him. Being lazy…
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A short story about (in)consistency
Few years ago I made a small purchase for my blog: a WordPress menu plug-in called UberMenu. A really nice,…
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A Third Variable
If you still remember my recent post on moving my hosting onto a brand new, shining VPS server (from an…
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Memcached and W3TC
If you ever wondered why, despite all your efforts and Goole-jistsu, you still couldn’t get W3TC to detect your local…
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Bloody Thursday
So, you think you know what „boring” means? You think you’ve watched some three hours of Parliament discussions about legal…
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Yop Poll – do not upgrade to 5.0!
If you are reading this post, chances are you are either one of my three returning visitors (although there is…
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Big G Down Again
Gmail went down for about half an hour this afternoon. This is a second disruption of the service in the…
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Back to roots
Somewhen in June 2010 I got my very first smartphone. It was a Samsung Galaxy S. OK, to be completely…
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Ups & downs
You can’t fight entropy. You can pretend it doesn’t apply to you but it does, all the time.
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The Ultimate Solution
In my last two articles I explained how to generate all 3-letter combinations, starting from AAA, AAB, AAC (and so…
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Out of juice
It happens to me every now and then to drain my car’s battery simply by leaving it overnight with some…
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