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Git log

When I am working with git, I find it useful to take a quick look at…
Installing RSpec and Cucumber

Open your shell and, For RSpec: [shell light=”1″]$ gem install rspec[/shell] For Cucumber: [shell light=”1″]$ gem…
Highrise SMS notifications

I really love Highrise. It is a 37signals service that helps you organise your contacts, your…
CruiseControl.NET recent version control change behavior in 1.4.x

After changing to CruiseControl.NET 1.4.x, my builds started sending weird Subversion related error messages. You see,…
Use List(T) ForEach method instead of foreach

If you have the right .NET version you can use:
Quick tips for better web sites

This one is very short, but I think these tips are essential and basic and unfortunately…
How to generate the MD5 checksum of a file

md5sum file.iso > file.iso.md5
How to create an ISO image

In order to turn a CD/DVD into an .iso one can: sudo umount /dev/cdrom dd if=/dev/cdrom…
Restore an MSSQL backup to a different database name

I had a database backup and was trying to restore it but to a different database…
Rails drop down lists

Sometimes you want to have a drop down list in your Rails application that contains both…