Here’s a quick tip I learned this weekend on how to get all your RubyGems installed without documentation by default.
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Last week I got a great deal on a pair of grass shears, $.50 at an estate sale. They look old and neglected, but they’re very well constructed and work great, they have a very fluid motion and are still quite sharp. But the handles on them were a bit small and uncomfortable, being constructed of just steal. So, I attempted to make my own more ergonomic handles.
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If you’re like me and running Xubuntu with dual monitors. And like to have dual taskbars (panels) on each monitor. Here’s how to display only the open applications in each taskbar for each monitor.
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I have Ubuntu setup to automatically log me in, so I don’t get a chance to pick which desktop environment I want; it always just picks the default (Unity), but I wanted it to default to Xubuntu. Here’s how to change the default to Xubuntu.
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Unless is a backwards if in Ruby. For the longest time I had a hard time wrapping my head around using it instead of just using not if, which I’ve always been used to. But, if you want to be apart of the Ruby culture, you need to learn how to use unless, here’s my simple technique on how I learned to use it.
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If you want to remove a remove custom workspace from Fireworks, there is no interface to do so, you have to do it manually.
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Here’s how to fix that annoying Ruby on Rails popup message: “The program can’t start because msvcrt-ruby18.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem.”

This fix applies if you’re using cucumber on Windows.
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