Git is one of the best tools that we use to save up our work throughout time and make it easier to collaborate with others and track the changes that have happened. Its usefulness is especially special when you realize the numerous functionalities that it has. One functionality that you may not be aware of is the ability to rename the author of a project.
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Athena is an easy-to-use and really helpful tool that can be used to convert the content of web pages into PDFs that you can save in any device that you want and then access them even when you are offline.
Writing tests in your projects is really important, especially because you need to make sure that things that have been implemented are already working as expected, and that future changes do not break something that is already working. In your projects, you may need to test that certain values are being assigned as expected, and sometimes trying to fix failing tests, or when writing new ones can be difficult to decipher the issue. Fortunately, a new Ruby gem has been implemented which is developed making this thing a lot easier.
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One of the most used Rails method for routes is resources. Another similar one also exists, but that may not be known that much. It is resource and there is actually a difference between them. Continue reading
A few months ago I wrote an article about a really great Chrome extension called Githunt. It basically grabs the most starred GitHub repositories in a day, week, month or year and displays them inside your new Chrome tab page. This way you are way closer to these repositories. This is a new article dedicated to this awesome Chrome extension: It has now been upgraded and has come with additional features that are worth the attention.
If you ever needed to paste a code that you have written in your favorite IDE or editor inside Microsoft Word and do not want to lose your formatting, then PlanetB is a really great tool that gives you that opportunity. It has a really easy-to-use user interface. It comes with the support for several programming languages like: C/C++, C#, CSS, Delphi, Pascal, XML, Java, Javascript, PHP, Python, Ruby, SQL, VB and HTML. Continue reading
Probably most of us have been in a situation in which we have sent an email that we did not want to send. We might have not finished formatting, or double checking it before the actual sending process, but we hit the Send button. Most of the times, it can be unintentionally, and as a result, we may write one or two PS follow-ups as replies to that email, adding or sending clarifications about certain things that have been mentioned in that email. During this week, I learned a small trick from a friend of mine that can help you in such occasions. Continue reading
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Even though you may get contacted by different recruiters via LinkedIn, chances are they will still ask for your resume. Finding you on LinkedIn was only the first part of the recruiting process. That is why it is important to also have a resume prepared that you can use. Novorésumé is a really great alternative when it comes to preparing resumes. Continue reading
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Have you gone to a foreign country and all of a sudden there were no English translations, but were written only in a language that you cannot understand? All the train station guidelines, food descriptions, and everything else that you need so much. You may also hesitate to ask so many people for everything that you do not understand. You simply feel embarrassed and not prefer to ask them anything, as you are not that much comfortable asking so many questions to people that you do not know. Luckily, Google Translate can tremendously help you out.
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There can be cases when you need to test something with the actual data, in a production environment, but you do not want to risk anything. You do not want to even think about the possibility for a data loss of the project that you are working it. Luckily, there is a really beneficial feature that is not that much known from Rails developers is a quick tool that you can use to test out some code without changing any data in your real database.
