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 …
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 = …
Occasionally when I copy and paste something from an external source into Vim every line gets indented, which is probably not something you want when pasting a code snippet. The solution to this problem is an easy one. Before pasting, first execute :set paste, then paste your content and to return the setting to its …
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Whenever you’re upgrading the software packages on your VirtualBox machine, managed by Vagrant, you risk VirtualBox Guest Additions render unusable and thus your shared folders don’t work anymore. This usually happens whenever a kernel upgrade is being done which requires the VirtualBox drivers to be recompiled. Thanks to a Vagrant plugin called vbguest you can …
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Recently I launched my new product HTML2PDF Web Service — a web service for converting HTML to PDF. In this post I’d like to talk about HTML2PDF Web Service. Why to choose it, how to use it and what technologies were used to create it. Why Choose HTML2PDF Web Service? Programmatically generating PDF documents is …