Removing features and merging those changes back can be painful. Here is how it worked for me.\
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When adding a new field to your model's database table, don't set any defaults in the database.
The technique described in this card has an important caveat: The result of GROUP_CONCAT is truncated to the maximum...
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While it might seem trivial to implement an invoice that sums up items and shows net, gross and vat totals...
Rails doesn't know which host it is running on. For generating links, it strips the hostname off the request...
To offer files for download, use send_file. def download(file) send_file file.path, :disposition => 'attachment' end
If you're writing a spec for an application using Resque, you may need to work off queues manually without...
VirtualBox does not offer anything for this task -- you need to do it yourself. It's not that hard:
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If you need to parse a large XML file (> 20 MB or so), you should parse it in chunks, otherwise...
After managing a few agile projects from India and learning the tricks of the trade, I have been wondering why...
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