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Guide how to make fixes in other people's GitHub repositories. It's basically "Open Source Development 101".

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UnicodeUtils implements Unicode algorithms for case conversion, normalization, text segmentation and more in pure Ruby code.

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Behave.js is a lightweight library for adding IDE style behaviors to plain text areas, making it much more enjoyable to...

The attached article outlines considerations when choosing client-side vs. server-side implementations of the Google Geocoding APIs (geocoder, directions...

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When doing a git blame, git will blame the person who added or removed white space in a line (e.g...

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jquery-timing is a very useful jquery plugin that helps to remove lots of nested anonymous functions. It's API...

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For two years we've been using SearchableTrait which gives models the ability to process Googlesque queries like this: Contact.search...