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An ancient essay on software design that, after 20 years, should still guide you for every line of code you...
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If you want to enforce soft tabs (spaces instead of tabstops) in Vim put this into your ~/.vimrc (Linux) or...
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Before installing chef, make sure curl is installed and sudo finds your gems setup chef-client: follow this guide