LibreOffice Impress, Writer, etc. doesn't embed most fonts into the PDFs it generates. This means if you share a...
New way to install an actual puppet version on ubuntu
Promises unified window for all chat conversations, better call quality. Upgrade seems to work fine. If you installed your old...
The linked article describes how to use a Firefox addon "Flash-Aid" to install a better build of Flash and...
xip.io is a magic domain name that provides wildcard DNS for any IP address. Say your LAN IP address is...
deploy-to-production now calls Capistrano with bundle exec since we started to bundle Capistrano in all projects.
You can search for large messages by folder or by your entire email account. Useful to reduce your mailbox size...
If you are using VNC to run Selenium tests, it may be hard to see what's going on since...
Embedding bitmap images within PDF sometimes results in large files because the bitmaps are not compressed. If you don't...
Note: You might also want to check out BoxCryptor which does pretty much the same, and is supported across many...
There is a conflict between current capistrano versions and the 2.5.1 net-ssh gem. Make sure you upgrade to 2.5.2...
Capistrano recently had some API changes that can results in deploys not working when running with old deploy.rb files.
i686 means 32-bit.
Every time I started RubyMine, it opened the main window on the left monitor -- when moving it to the center...
Sometimes you need a special version of chrome because it has some features you need for testing, like in this...
xterm by default uses black text on white background. To change that to something like "light gray on black", do...
Geordi, our collection of command line tools, has been extended by another command deploy-to-production. This script encapsulates the...
How to get a backtrace from a running Ruby process: Ruby 2.6 # First, find out the PID of your Ruby...
When you create a new branch and push it to origin, you won't be tracking it. This means a...
When talking to your MySQL server via a mysql shell, you can terminate queries by ; or \G -- the latter gives...
Usually you don't need to, but when you want to see which queries your MySQL server currently needs to...
When you are using NAT in your virtual machine (which you should), the host's IP address is: 10.0.2.2
After you configured your ODBC describe in Fix [RubyODBC]Cannot allocate SQLHENV when connecting to MSSQL 2005 with Ruby 1.8.7...
I followed this nice guide Connecting to MSSQL with Ruby on Ubuntu - lambie.org until I ran in the following errors...