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  • Show site name in Google search results page

    If you have noticed that your website appears on Google’s search results page without the site name, don’t worry, you’re not alone. It happened to me with my cocktails website: One of the ways to solve this problem is by using Open Graph site_name and the WebSite Schema. Open Graph site_name is a meta tag…

  • Django PostgreSQL used session on Github Actions test error

    If you’re using the PostgreSQL service on Github Actions as a backend database for your Django tests, you might encounter the following error on any particular test: And the following at the end of your test run: The problem is that Django reuses the database connection, and while locally my tests were passing, on Github…

  • Custom Protractor Flake shard parser

    PR #45 on Protractor Flake added the ability to specify custom parsers. On my project we’re sharding (running multiple instances of) Protractor and using the following parser to re-run only the failing spec files. You’ll want to replace the /test/functional/specs/ and the browser name (chrome) below with your actual values.

  • Things to improve on Windows 8 JavaScript app development

    Since October 2013 my team is working on a JavaScript app for Windows 8. There are good things, and there are bad things. I was asked to give feedback about the bad parts. So here it goes: Tests There’s no easy way to run unit tests. We started with node.js, mocking the Windows/WinJS libraries. Later…

  • Remove ._ files from Mac OS X

    Run this command on the terminal to remove every ._ file created by Mac OS X on the current path and its descendants:

  • Hide “username” has entered the room, or left the room on Adium

    I just spent 10 minutes perusing every Adium menu and options to find where I could disable the message “entered the room” and “left the room” on Adium. Turns out, it’s easy: Right click on the IRC channel name tab and the option “Show Join/Leave messages” will appear.

  • Replace tabs by space on git history

    So, I prefer spaces, and when I press tab, it should instead write 4 spaces. I forgot to set this option on Sublime Text and did some commits with tabs. The following git command will rewrite the repo history and replace tabs by 4 spaces.

  • Download file using WinJS.xhr

    Snippet to download a file using WinJS.xhr and save it. The file variable below is a StorageFile, result of pickSaveFileAsync. Note the usage of responseType: “blob” as an option to xhr, and how it is copied to the file stream with msDetachStream. I tried to use replaceWithStreamedFileFromUriAsync and writeBufferAsync, but never managed to make it…

  • PCH file built from a different branch ((clang-425.0.24)) than the compiler ((clang-425.0.27))

    Atualizei o XCode da versão 4.6.0 para 4.6.01 e de repente meus projetos não construíam mais, dando o erro: PCH file built from a different branch ((clang-425.0.24)) than the compiler ((clang-425.0.27)) A solução foi simplesmente limpar o projeto. Vá ao menu “Product” e selecione “Clean”.

  • Powershell script to snap an app in Windows 8

    You can not, from inside a Windows 8 application, snap it. That doesn’t mean there is no other way 🙂 At work, we have to test our app in a snapped state, so we need a way to programmatically make it happen. We discovered that there are two keyboard shortcuts for this action. Windows Key…