You are his whole life
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2014
Saying goodbye to a friend
On the 11th of May 2014 at 7:10 PM my dog, Gurbe-Jan, took his last breath. Gurbe-Jan, a Bernese Mountain Dog, has been with me since he was only 7.5 weeks old. He died at the respectable age of 10 years and 7 months. He was an unique dog that came into me and my …
Enabling Bash auto-completion in Ubuntu
Virtual Private Servers are usually installed with the minimum required software. More often than not this means Bash auto-completion isn’t enabled, which is a tad bit annoying as it slows down navigation. To fix this you can install the bash-completion package. Like so: $ sudo apt-get install bash-completion
Open taskbar apps with Windows key + number
Something I accidentally discovered is that in Windows 8.1 (and probably 8 as well – and Windows 7) you can use the Windows key + a number to open an application from your task bar! So lets say you’ve got Google Chrome at position 1, Thunderbird at 2 and Visual Studio 2012 at position 3. …
SQL: Find & Replace text in all records
On type of query I always have to run when moving a website from its test environment to its live environment is to replace the test domain in all content pages with the live domain. With SQL this can be easily done with the REPLACE(text, search, substitution) function. For example: UPDATE some_table SET some_field = …