Software engineering and personal development
Alfred is a really great application for Mac that lets you do Google searches, or even search inside your computer with just a few keystrokes.
The good thing is, there is even a very helpful shortcut for searching inside Mac files. I learned about it only recently and have found great value from it.
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If you had no time or interest to watch a long YouTube video but were only interested in seeing a short portion of it, where a particular word is mentioned, Invideo can help you. It is a light extension that once is installed, it is shown on the video page, on the right side of the video that you are currently watching. There you can type any search term that you want to find out in the video transcript and then hopefully get that same match inside it.
There are many Chrome extensions that give you the ability to block certain sites from not visiting, including having a fixed number of minutes, or during a certain period of time. However, until today, I did not see any extension that allowed you to hide results from certain pages, so that you are not going to see anything even on your Google searches from that particular domain.
I recently learned a really nice tip on how to quickly find out the time in your local timezone and you do not need any plugin or perform several steps to reach the answer.
GitHub is one of the best places for developers to store their projects, collaborate with other colleagues, and learn from other open source projects as well. These type of projects are written in different programming languages, usually using different frameworks. As these frameworks or developers in general usually possess certain ways of organizing their code files into many folders, it makes it a bit difficult to navigate through them manually in GitHub. Luckily there is a really helpful shortcut that help with that. Continue reading
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One of the most important parts of developing a project is the necessity to have a clear picture in mind about the end goal. Namely, knowing the target audience that this project has and the features that it will include. This means that we need to make sure we are informed as much as possible about the business logic, and then be able to do the implementation of all the features as needed. Continue reading
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It is highly likely that you will have to work on a project that has some type of search forms implemented. Fortunately, as with many other type of functionalities that you can easily get out of the box without writing too much code in Rails projects, there is also a gem that is specific for this purpose. Ransack is a Ruby gem that enables the creation of both simple and advanced search forms for Ruby on Rails projects.
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