Thanks to everyone who has written to me about the name conflict between my WordPress plugin, Quick Code, and David Gwyer's plugin, Quick Code.

I created the Quick Code plugin three and a half years ago so I'm not sure how the conflict happened but I decided to just rename my plugin to Dirty Code. I chose the name …

I don't usually make a habit of posting about my favorite WordPress plugins but this WPtouch is worth the mention. I was looking to make my blog more iPhone friendly, without making any adjustments to my normal theme and WPtouch gave me exactly what I wanted. To quote their website:

More than just a plugin, WPtouch is …

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Error The search service is currently offline. Visit the Services on Server page in SharePoint Central Administration to verify whether the service is enabled. This might also be because an indexer move is in progress. Troubleshoot issues with Windows SharePoint Services.

This is probably the reason: …

Today is Ada Lovelace Day. Lovelace has been credited as the founder of Scientific Computing, though she is not as well-known as her male counterparts.

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Ever since I read how much IBM's DB2 SMOKED Oracle and SQL Server in the tpc-c (OLTP) benchmarks, I've wanted to work with it. The benchmarks go a little something like this:

I mean, I don't work with servers that require nearly that horsepower but …

In order to emulate a DB2/iSeries<->SQL Server setup that I deal with at work, I installed DB2 Express-C on SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10. The DB2/Linux Server details, as well as a sample database and table name, are as follows:

A frustrated administrator friend just messaged me, asking how he can, in VBScript, "run a simple batch file using a simple command line without defining a billion vars and initting a bunch of bullshit." Apparently, this isn't well documented on the web, so I'm taking a stab at it.

Set WshShell = …