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Every developer values code highlighting and theming. This is how you can handle syntax highlighting in your Rails project.

The reCaptcha GEM is not built to handle different configurations of reCaptcha (ex: V2 vs V3 or as I hear V2 Checkbox vs V2 Hidden). If you need to to use another version you will have to rig up your own implementation.

Affinity by Serif is selling their software Designer, Photo and Publisher on discount. The iPad versions of the apps just cost $9.99 and the desktop version of it cost $24.99. Grab your license today.

නරි නෑවීම කියන්නෙ මොකක්ද කියන කියමන අහලා තිබුනට එකෙ ඇත්ත තෙරුම දැනගෙන හිටියෙද? The meaning of the Sinhalese saying "නරි නෑවීම".

Did J J Thomsons discovery of radioactivity kickstart nuclear physics? Or had Sri Lanka already mastered nuclear technology to the extent to build space ships?

Code deploys failed. Connection to port 22 was timing out. I thought it was a Github issue or a firewall issue. But it turned out to be an issue with SSH. The config I used to get deploys operational.

Bring sanity to your code and avoid massive expectation pyramids by chaining multiple conditions inside a single `expect` block.

The SD Card of my Samsung Galaxy S9 Plus went undetected after installing a system update.

As it seems many SLT Broadband users are experiencing slower torrent speeds during off-peak times. Is Sri Lanka Telecom up to no good?

I placed in an order in Keells Super website with great difficulty on April 1st. Estimate was up to 72 hours but haven't received yet. Now Thalahena is not in the delivery grid and I am worried.

The Sinhala and Tamil New Year in 2020 is unlikely going to be a blast. The COVID19 virus has put the country in to a state of lockdown. New year celebrations aside, people are struggling to survive the day.

Looking for an iPad, I found this store in Liberty Plaza through a listing on ikman.lk called MacXeon. I visited the location, its was small, and the sales women there knew her Apple and was a delight meet as many sellers don't have the passion to sell a product like Apple.

Once a die hard Windows user, then a die hard Linux user, is jumping on board the Apple ship. Apple is costly, while the "ecosystem" is interesting, that is not the main reason.

Want to delete all records from a PostgreSQL table? You have two options, the commands DELETE and the TRUNCATE will both help. But whats is more efficient?

Electronic waste is a major concern in many countries including EU and Sri Lanka. Charging port harmonization will help, but not that much. I believe bundling products (headphones, charging cable, charging brick) should not be allowed and users should be made to buy them separate.

Was the 2 hour power failure in Feb 3rd the beginning of the annual Sri Lankan power cut? Did the dark ages just start?

Apple is known to be heavy on the pocket. When it comes to iPads, it introduces significant improvement among mid and high tier versions. In a time where the iPad Gen 4 is about to be released what would you get in Sri Lanka?

The Ruby-retry method allows us to effortlessly retry a met a code block or an error handled method when an error is raised. This posts explains the retry method with an example use.

Learn how you can track an ActiveRecord objects attribute changes across its lifecycle or page request. The methods [attr]_was, [attr]_chagned?, [attr]_previously_was are some among the helpful methods implemented in ActiveModel::Dirty module.

DJI Osmo Pocket story mode and my story features are great but could be better. How on earth can you edit those captions?

JDeen.com V3 is in progress. Started as a custom WordPress website (V1), it moved to Sinatra (V2) and currently is based on Ruby on Rails (V3).

Make your code less noisy with the help of the dot-parenthesis shorthand. Start using the .(args)` instead of the .call method in services and other applicable instances.

Mr Azzam Bangsajayah, my uncle, former BoC manager and Sussex principal, passed away due to complications from Cancer. The funeral was held at the ancestral family home and the burial at the Gettuwana Muslim burial grounds.

With the introduction of ActionCable with Rails 5.0, WebSockets are now first-class citizens in the Ruby on Rails ecosystem. This article is an introduction to the WebSockets implementation in Rails.

Caching is a vital instrument to reduce the load on the server and deliver reused results and speed up page load for the user. Rails 5 introduces collection caching that can vastly improve performance.