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• July 6, 2026 / 3 min read

  How to Check What's In Stock (and On Sale) at Your Local LCBO Before You Drive Over

  How to check wine stock, prices, and sale markdowns at any LCBO store in Ontario online, including a free tool that tracks all 693 stores daily.

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• July 3, 2026 / 3 min read

  Cloudflare D1 was down / degraded on July 3, 2026 (resolved)

  Cloudflare D1 was degraded on July 3, 2026 because of a Durable Objects incident in Eastern North America. Cloudflare has since marked the incident resolved.

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• April 10, 2026 / 5 min read

  How to Fix Garmin Watch Alarms Not Working on Samsung Phones (The Easy Fix Nobody Talks About)

  If your Garmin watch can't see, snooze, or dismiss alarms on a Samsung phone, install Google Clock and set it as your default alarm app.

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• October 12, 2021 / 1 min read

  AWS Console login page is down

  seems no one can log into the console https://console.aws.amazon.com/console/home We're seeing: 504 Gateway Time-out Comment if you learn why or hear an update Their status page claims all is up..

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• October 3, 2014 / 2 min read

  Best Caprese Salad Recipe

  We call it the Leaning tower of Caprese Caprese salads can be made in many ways. Manipulations of the three key ingredients (tomatoes, mozzarella, basil) will result in different varieties of the salad - all being del...

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• October 3, 2014 / 3 min read

  Find the Perfect Rental Unit | How To

  Searching for a rental unit can be tough, time-consuming, and stressful. Whether you're desperate to move now or even looking well in advance, some tricks and tips can help ease the process so you can relax in your ne...

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• July 2, 2014 / 1 min read

  Installing Software on Ubuntu Server 14.04

  Install Oracle Java 7 on Ubuntu: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install oracle-java7-set-default Install Glashfish 4 on Ubuntu: #Download Glassfish 4 wget download.java.n...

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• April 17, 2014 / 1 min read

  Ignore Foreign Key Constraints During Truncate or Drop

  If you are trying to drop/delete or empty/truncate a mysql table and you keep getting an error that you are violating a foreign key constraint, you may want to temporarily ignore that constraint. The code below demons...

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• April 1, 2014 / 1 min read

  Create new MySQL user and allow them to connect from any IP

  If you are getting the error: user is not allowed to connect to this MySQL serverConnection closed by foreign host Or : Access denied for user 'root'@'somehost.com' (using password: YES)) Then you probably have not cr...

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• March 28, 2014 / 1 min read

  MySQL See all columns and tables that foreign key to a table or column

  If you're trying to understand how an existing database has been setup it can be very useful to see all of the tables/columns that foreign key into some other table/column. use INFORMATION_SCHEMA; select TABLE_NAME,CO...

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• March 24, 2014 / 1 min read

  Ruby MySQL Transaction Example

  Here is a simple tutorial showing how to implement transactions in Ruby with MySQL. The code uses The MySQL2 Gem. We are showing the insert of 2 records into the customers table of a database. If either insert fails,...

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• March 23, 2014 / 1 min read

  Setup a new GIT repository

  Here is a quick reminder of how to setup a new git repository on your git server and check it out on your client machine. On The Server cd /opt/git mkdir newproject.git cd newproject.git git --bare init On the Client...

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