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If you'd like to preview the crontab that whenever will deploy, run the following: bundle exec whenever
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Fontawesome 4 has introduced new naming conventions that make it easy to retrieve variants of a given icon.
This cheat sheet...
...aims at providing a quick reference to the most commonly used features in AngularJS.
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Adobe no longer supports their PDF reader on Linux and the official page does not offer it for download. \
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If you have issues with PDFs, fix them like this: pdftk .pdf output .pdf Background I had an issue where...
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When your system is not running on English, you may sometimes want to run some applications and not use your...
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So you want your Ruby script to install missing gems instead of dying? Take this method: def installing_missing_gems...
If you regularly get ActionView::MissingTemplate exceptions, maybe some bot visits your site requesting silly formats like: http://www.rails-app.com/makandra.html-username-2000...