Slow RSS feed on your blog? Here’s what to do.
A friend was trying to subscribe to my RSS channel recently but his NewsBlur was reporting a timeout nine attempts out of ten. I tried accessing my /feed/ url locally but got a timeout, too….
Kategoria: English
English is my second language. Not much here I’m afraid.
Reader View in Firefox: why is it bad and how to disable it?
What’s wrong with the Reader View in Firefox.
Copy variables between SSIS packages
How to copy-paste multiple variables between SSIS packages.
How to speed up WordPress blog: REDIS
About the Redis caching engine.
Supersedes
What happens when the same word means two different things in two languages.
Economical mumbo-jumbo
Whilst browsing the Internet I recently ran into an interesting (and probably totally unreallistic) idea: universities should be free from charge for all students. Their (i.e. universities’) income should be funded exclusively off a tax…
Next prime date
Dates in Ireland are usually written as DD MMM YYYY i.e. 5 Sep 2016 or 12 Jan 2000 and so on. However, from database perspective (which is my personal favourite) I like storing date values…
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, 8 and 144 are the only perfect squares in the famous Fibonacci sequence. For greenhorns:…
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 in other EU countries.
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 representations. On top of this there are different calendars, too. Overall one could probably get…
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 generate an empty *.OK file and send it over immediately after the main file transfer…