Software engineering and personal development
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.
There are times when you may need to have a lot of tabs open, and navigating through them can be a bit painful, as your list can be too crowded that you are not able to read any title from the list of tabs. You can only view the icons of your tabs. There is a great Chrome extension that allows you to search through your tabs and navigate through them by only using your keyboard.
Windows XP is one of the most famous operating systems that used to be really hard to get rid of, even though Microsoft itself tried a lot of methods to convince its customers to do the migration to one of its newer operating systems. Now that Github has been bought by Microsoft, many people have started complaining in terms of the implications that this acquisition may have. On the other hand, there are other people who have started to make jokes about this movement. A Chrome plugin has been developed to turn Github into a layout that is similar to Windows XP.
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Devise is one of the most famous Ruby gems, which is a flexible authentication solution for Rails based on Warden. It comes with a lot of useful features, but it also has its limitations. One of them is that it does not invalidate a session even though you log out. One of the core developers behind Devise accepts it, and gives the advice of replacing cookie-based storage to address this issue. Fortunately, there is a quicker solution as well. Continue reading
I recently learned about a new developer related site that I really liked. It is a place where many recordings of conferences about software development have been listed. Continue reading
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