We love VMware in our SQL Server consulting practice. But there are some things you should know and do first. These aren’t deep and mysterious secrets. But they’re things we see a lot of folks s...

This is where I start when I have to configure an Apache server: a simple virtual host template with ssl rewrite. <VirtualHost *:80> ServerName my.domain.com ServerAlias my.domain.c...

A truly simple product is built around a deep understanding of the problem it’s meant to solve. This is challenging because it requires us to set aside our way of thinking and develop empathy fo...

A very detailed post about setting up CrashPlan Cloud Backup on a Synology NAS running DSM 5.0 Remember, any good backup strategy follows the Backup Rule of Three. 3 copies of anything you c...

This is a simple trick to run a javascript code while opening an Acrobat Form. I use it very often in server side generated forms to change the required flag based on fields value. You need to add...

Remove existing files from the repository: find . -name .DS_Store -print0 | xargs -0 git rm -f --ignore-unmatch Add the line .DS_Store to the file .gitignore, which can be found at the top level...

If you are using SQLServer probably you had to restore a database from a backup and got stuck with an orphaned user that was no more associated with a login. Microsoft provides a stored procedure ...

We have spent countless hours engineering the thinnest, most powerful smartphone in the world onto which you will now put a case. We have burned untold person-years, an innumerable number of lif...

The default Jira notification scheme sometimes might look like a spam bot, especially if you have a lot of users actively using it, so for one of our project we decided to create an empty notificat...

A simple but useful SQL snippet that lets you update a table using data from another table UPDATE Table1 SET Table1.col1 = Table2.col1, Table1.col2 = Table2.col2 FROM Table1 ...