xip.io

xip.io is a magic domain name that provides wildcard DNS for any IP address. Say your LAN IP address is...

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deploy-to-production now calls Capistrano with bundle exec since we started to bundle Capistrano in all projects.

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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...

makandra dev

Capistrano recently had some API changes that can results in deploys not working when running with old deploy.rb files.

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...

bbs.archlinux.org

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...

weblog.jamisbuck.org

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...

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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...

This is one possibility to do this. There are other and maybe even better ways to do this.

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When you do a script/dbconsole -p, your MySQL shell will already be using UTF-8. When you call it yourself...

If you want to know your public key's fingerprint, do this: ssh-keygen -lf ~/.ssh/my.key.pub This may be necessary...

TeamViewer 6 and lower had an issue where they would see a multi-monitor Linux setup as a single wall...