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Welcome to my private collection of tips, tricks, and ideas on how to do something in a different way from the one you had planned in the first place. There is no guarantee these ideas will work for you, but they did for me and as my memory tends to play tricks on me, too, I decided to write them down - just for personal use.

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Simulating a Materialised View in mySQL

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

As mySQL does not support materialised views out of the box, I was looking for a work around. The most convincing one I found (because it only switches tables when the new one is readily filled) is:

  1. create your view v_name as
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Die am besten versteckte Word Option

Thursday, August 27th, 2009

Beim Überarbeiten von Dokumenten in Word (Office 2007) wähle ich gerne die Ansicht "Endgültige Version enthält Markups" (warum eigentlich "enthält"?). Bei den Markups in der drop-down Liste darunter blende ich aber standardmäßig das "Format" aus.
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A Search bar hijacked my Firefox

Thursday, August 20th, 2009

Very annoying. Even though I uninstalled it, it remained "somehow" there. When I typed something into the URL field and expected being taken to Google, it still took me to that unwanted other party...
The solution: go to about:config
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