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
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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.
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Globalize is one of the most famous gems that is used for translating dynamic content in Rails application. It is really easy to use, and brings a lot of conveniences immediately after you add it in your application. I recently had to do a more complex query using the table added by Globalize generator, and I could not find that much information about ways of doing joins for this newly added table with the one that it corresponds and that translates its attributes. In this article, you can see a short example on how to do that.
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For a very long time, I have used Windows as my default operating system. A couple of months ago, I switched to Mac OS and a few features that I really enjoyed having in Windows were not in this new OS. At least, not included by default. One of them was the ability to resize the windows of applications by dragging them to one of the screen’s corners. Fortunately, I saw Noah Kagan recommending a cheap app called BetterSnapTool, which allows you to do just that. Continue reading
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Application Programming Interfaces (API) have become something commonly widespread for a lot of applications. They are used to make a central implementation of business logic requirements, which can then be easily maintained, changed, and used from multiple clients implemented in different stacks of technologies. A typical end user might not be informed about the existence of APIs, but he is most likely enjoying the benefits of APIs. Knowing that there are very popular applications that have public APIs which you can leverage for your applications, it is time to think using them a lot more.
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We live in a society that is dived deeply into a variety of applications, where a lot of us are constantly jumping from one app to another because somebody else is using it, or because we have heard that it got 5 stars in a review. However, if tools are only means to accomplish our goals, shouldn’t we hesitate to start using these new applications that come out each day, and rather try to have a specific objective of aiming before using them? Continue reading
We are constantly being bombarded by thousands of tools and apps that try to attract us to use them, that we are even being into dilemmas about which tool should we choose. Instead of first having a motive, then a plan about what we want to accomplish, we try to begin with a search on Google about the best tool. Even though there are some really good tools that can make your work easier, usually the type of tool is not the main culprit, but yourself, because you are trying to hide and avoid the uncomfortable work. Don’t believe me? Let’s take some examples.