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The vehicle import ban was necessary to keep exchange rates stable. How ever the governments focus to prioritise EVs with the relax of the import restrictions could destabilise the power grid.

Its almost Sinhala Tamil New Year and it might be a good time to buy a MacBook Air. Shops want to rid of the Intel i3 versions and the M1 MacBook Air prices are also not that bad.

It could be argued that `NOT NULL` is the most popular database constraint out there. There are times you need to add a constraint or remove it. Some advice on how to do it in Ruby on Rails.

The popular Trailblazer sister project Reform (and Reform-Rails) on Ruby 3.0 environment is expected to have errors due to the fact Ruby 3 is not yet supported. Updates expected to come soon.

A pair of Shubunkin Gold Fish bought from East West Aquarium join my aquarium increasing the population to 6. The 3 different pairs are Black Moor, Gold Fish and Shubunkin. In search for 2 more pairs.

Personal experience compiled to a simple informative article on choosing between an inkjet printer, ink-tank printer or a laser printer.

If there has been a scarcity of pet / aquarium fish that may be the result of import controls. Yes! Apparently we are importing pet fish from Singapore and China.

Fix the JavaScript error "Lqb is not defined" where it works in Development but not in Staging or Production environments (where assets are compiled and minified).

GoDaddy is loved by many for the task of buying domain names and even hosting. How ever their payment method processing has a history of making trouble in the form - now it works; now it doesn't!

Install webpacker in your Ruby on Rails 4.2+ project to manage client side libraries in a sane way.

Terrible oversight resulted in the inclusion of swear words in the word database used in the XKPassword Ruby gem. The database has been cleaned and a new version released.

An e-commerce ready website is important to a laundry business. Due to obvious differences how a laundry website should bill the customer differ from how an e-commerce store should bill the customer.

The Sri Lankan legal system in general and court houses in particular could benefit greatly going digital. I believe it is time we leave behind the typewriter and using computers, scanners, cameras, software and databases.

Most Sri Lankans know Highland and Milco brands. Their website offered exceptional e-commerce service at first. But as the lockdowns ease their service has significantly deteriorated.

Tiers are as important as any safety feature on a vehicle. They are also instrumental in comfort. Not every tier is equal. When you are replacing tiers spend a little extra and get a good set of tiers. It is an investment that last a good 5 years.

Reduce form submission spam using a combination of reCaptcha V2 and V3. V3 will give a seamless submission experience to general users and prompt for validation using V2 on suspicion.

A mouse which is not registering your clicks properly is a nightmare condition in modern user interfaces that rely on pointed inputs. Fortunately many of these issues can be fixed rather easily.

TRC-SL recommends ISPs to come up with unlimited bandwidth packages. SLT had unlimited internet but then they got greedy. My fingers are crossed and I hope for the best!

Its hard to imagine a web-development project that doesn't have FontAwesome. This is How you can install and configure FontAwesome (free) using Webpacker in Ruby on Rails 6.

In Rails & UJS - how would you execute a JS layout of one resource from within another resource? You could render it as a layout and include or you can make a request to the route.

Is your development environment using Vagrant? You are saving the files but the Rails server / application is not detecting and auto updating file changes? Here is how you can get it resolved.

Shutdown / halting, sleeping, restarting your Mac using the GUI is obvious and easy. That is not your only option Here is how you can use the terminal and give the appearance of a pro level geek.

Most fun happens in the 500mm focal range and I'd been carving for a super telephoto with about 600mm range. With Sigma and Tamaron in being the competitors neither are in stock in Sri Lanka.

In my quest to find a decent platform to invest in stocks I found etoro. It allows ETFs, crypto and CFD. Once again being a Sri Lankan resulted in complications.

Being interested in a stock image library subscription, I took a look at Envato Elements. It offers a good selection for the price. How ever it lags far behind the likes of Adobe Stock.

Upgrading Ahoy lead to a Rails routing error - No route match [POST] "/ahoy/events" which was a result of not enabling Ahoy.api.

Robinhood is a great app, but unfortunately you need a US SSN to get access it. Some not possible unless you are studying or working in US.

Boost your laundry business with a fully featured web and mobile solution custom built to meet the industries requirements.

Fixing rbenv based Ruby installation on a Vagrant VM running Ubuntu following the installation of ZSH and oh-my-zsh.

Greatly improve your photo editing capabilities with Skylums new Luminar AI app. The app uses advanced AI to suggest AI filters to easily bring even most of your boring photos to life.