IT conservations

 So, I'm finally moving off of NetBeans and into IntelliJ IDEA .  The two main reasons for that are: NetBeans is really getting old any ...

Some of you - like me - have probably relied on BeyondPod for years to get your daily dose of podcasts. It was, and arguably still is, one o...

 Another of my favorite tools / apps is going... now it hit Pocket. I've written about it on this blog a bit . And quite a while ago. We...

Well, go to settings ... duuuh. Yeah, alright, but what if I have to run headless, i.e. not have a monitor or TV attached. So as long as you...

It annoyed me for ages that you cannot just double-click on an URL in Putty to open that URL in your browser. Even selecting an URL for copy...

 For some weird reason (including a 20MB text file to be precise) I wanted to turn on  shrinkResources true minifyEnabled true in my Android...

Today I learned that you essentially cannot concatenate ( concat, || ) nullable columns properly in DB2/SQL. To be honest, I should have kno...