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A great two-part article about various hacks you can use to create great-looking screen designers when you're...
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On your credit card summary, you will find order numbers of rides with Deutsche Bahn ("DB BAHN A-NR XYZ123...
Google Calendar integration into Thunderbird suddenly did not work any more for me. Thunderbird kept asking me for my password...
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This is a problem when using Selenium with Firefox. We recommend using ChromeDriver for your Selenium tests. Firefox will not...
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Using this gem I could get JSON generation from a large, nested Ruby hash down from 200ms to 2ms.
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When you need to check a value for presence, don't rely on JavaScript since it considers 0 or "0...
Put the font files (e.g. ttf) into ~/.fonts Run fc-cache -v Or, if you prefer to use the GUI...
Firefox 5.0.1, which we were using for most Rails 2.3 projects, does not run on Ubuntu 14.04 any more. Here...
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If you have issues with PDFs, fix them like this: pdftk .pdf output .pdf Background I had an issue where...
Just install the texlive-xetex package: sudo apt-get install texlive-xetex Running integration tests without texlive-xetex will produce...
You select some characters, make them bold and suddenly your entire document is bold? Here's how to fix that...