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Note: For PostgreSQL you should use advisory locks. For MySQL we still recommend the solution in this card.
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This note is a reminder that there is something called AppArmor that could cause weird errors ("File not found", "Can...
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On 32bit systems, the maximum representable Time is 2038-01-19 03:14:07 in UTC or 2038-01-19...
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Using OpenSSL it's very easy to seriously encrypt files. Use the script below. Input / Output are self explanatory. Put...
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The code below shows a method #validate which uses Nokogiri to validate an XML document against an XSD schema. It...
Sometimes you want to run a command forever, e.g. to compile a haml to html file on the console. Use...
To improve your chances to get proper error messages, you can try ^ to start cucumber with the -b option, so...
Note that this sounds good but is not good at all when hooking tasks on cap deploy (see this article...
In order to bring up a textual description of a Capistrano task you can say cap -e taskname ... where taskname...
If you find yourself working in the Adobe Flash IDE you're already doing it wrong, but maybe the hour...
This note describes a Cucumber step definition that lets you say: Then "Mow lawn" should be an option for "Activity...
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