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A comprehensive introduction to sending HTML emails. Intro: HTML email: Two words that, when combined, brings tears to a developer...
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We used zeroclipboard.js in some of our projects but now we switched to clipboard.js because it does not rely on...
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When working with custom transactions and use ActiveRecord::Rollback you may encounter unexpected behaviour if you try to roll back...
You can have a command repeatedly executed and the output displayed. This is useful e.g. for monitoring file system changes...
If you want to find the commits that touched a specific text in a file, use git log -S 'text...
Icomoon.io offers a free app to build custom icon webfonts. It offers downloads as webfont set (.eot, .ttf, .woff, .woff2...
#reverse_order does not work with complex sorting constraints and may even silently create malformed SQL for rails < 5.
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