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There are two very similar statements in JavaScript: for...in and for...of. And while they can be easily confused, they're actually quite different.

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Simplify your code while improving extensibility and performance.

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This guide will show you how to autocomplete or autoclose React JSX and HTML tags in Sublime Text 2 and Sublime Text 3.

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My journey trying to find the one loop operator to rule them all

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If you're using MySQL, at some point you'll want to measure the size of your tables. This can help you identify issues, track table growth over time, estimate disk space requirements, etc.

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Comparing performance, syntax, replication, and features.

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As a JavaScript developer, you'll often need to construct URLs and query string parameters. One sensible way to construct query string parameters is to use a one layer object with key value pairs.

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By default, the HTML exported from Google Docs includes tons of classes, styles, and is generally messy. This short guide will teach you how to export clean HTML devoid of classes and inline styles.

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Google Analytics spam is nothing new. But now spammers have realized that, since language appears in the initial Google Analytics dashboard view, spoofing the language code reaches eyeballs.

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Make your object readable in console.

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There are two very similar statements in JavaScript: for...in and for...of. And while they can be easily confused, they're actually quite different.

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Simplify your code while improving extensibility and performance.

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This guide will show you how to autocomplete or autoclose React JSX and HTML tags in Sublime Text 2 and Sublime Text 3.

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My journey trying to find the one loop operator to rule them all

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If you're using MySQL, at some point you'll want to measure the size of your tables. This can help you identify issues, track table growth over time, estimate disk space requirements, etc.

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Comparing performance, syntax, replication, and features.

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As a JavaScript developer, you'll often need to construct URLs and query string parameters. One sensible way to construct query string parameters is to use a one layer object with key value pairs.

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By default, the HTML exported from Google Docs includes tons of classes, styles, and is generally messy. This short guide will teach you how to export clean HTML devoid of classes and inline styles.

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Google Analytics spam is nothing new. But now spammers have realized that, since language appears in the initial Google Analytics dashboard view, spoofing the language code reaches eyeballs.

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Naming things is hard. "There are only two hard problems in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things." — Phil Karlton Truer words were never spoken.

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If you have a website running on your computer that you typically access by visiting http://localhost, you can also access this site from your mobile phone as long as both computers are connected to the same network.

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There's a bug in El Capitan when trying to install SASS. A quick workaround exists, however.

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Writing tests is an important part of software development process. Unit tests form a core part of testing process where each functional block is tested as an independent unit.

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Learn how to set up a Ruby on Rails/PostgreSQL app using docker and docker compose.

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Converting XML files to JSON is a good practice for providing easy manipulation and preparing service responses. You can accomplish this efficiently with just three lines of code.

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Part of being a web developer is testing things that will inevitably break in insane and unexpected ways in Internet Explorer.

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Making a deep copy of an object in JavaScript is fairly challenging. Fortunately, there are a few ways to accomplish this without much code.

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This guide will teach you how to concatenate, or join, all elements of an array into a single string.

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As a developer, I've customized my bash prompt to always show the current git branch if I'm in an initialized git repository. This is convenient, but it can make for a very long bash prompt.

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This guide will show you how to set up a LAMP environment in macOS and OS X.

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I'll spoil it - "printenv" is your friend. This guide will show a few examples of how to use it.

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Sure there are plugins that will do this for you, but here's a quick and easy way.

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If you've been experimenting with Docker, you've probably discovered that each time you restart a container the data is gone.

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Become a PR pro in about 5 minutes.

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Trailing whitespace can be a real pain - especially when diffing changes between two versions of a file.

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SVGs are great; making them smaller makes them even greater. This guide will show you how to optimize SVGs.

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Vundle, Pathogen, Vim-plug, VAM, and the others can be great time savers but sometimes you just have to do something yourself so you can understand what exactly the time saving software is doing for you in the background. For myself, I got sick of not understanding what these were doing to my system. I realized I did not know the fundamentals of vim plugins so I set out to learn. This is a step by step guide to teach you how to install a basic vim plugin without the help of any fancy manager.

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As a JavaScript developer, one of the most common things you'll need to do is react to the user's events.

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Bourbon is a library of Sass mixins. It provides a lot of functionality while keeping your css slim. Assuming you're using a standard rails installation, Sass will already be installed and working.

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Closures are extremely valuable if you know how to use them. The problem is that many JavaScript developers don't know how to use them.

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In the wake of Google's announcement that it will start giving a ranking boost to full-SSL sites, many companies are converting their sites to be full-https.

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When learning Vim, it's nice to have a cheat sheet to refer to.

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I started programming in PHP, so by default I would use apache even when I just wanted to test basic HTML files. As I was learning Python, I discovered a great HTTP request handler.

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Surprisingly, normal YouTube embeds are not automatically sized to the browser window as it is resized.

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As a web developer, I stare at Chrome's developer tools -- particularly the Elements and Console tabs -- all day long. As a result, all light and no dark makes Zach's eyes dull and tired.

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You can echo the current MODX resource's full page URL without the use of a snippet call.

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Renaming a MySQL table is very simple, but sometimes the syntax is hard to remember.

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This short guide will show you how to list all remote branches in Git.

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Internet Explorer 8 may display a border regardless of your CSS attempts. This guide details how to remove it once and for all.

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Text shadows are a beautiful and subtle effect for your web site. CSS3 text shadows are currently support on all versions of Chrome, Safari, Firefox 3.5+, and IE 10+.

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Learn how to center text in CSS.

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This guide will show you how to export your MySQL query as a CSV file, a common need when analyzing records or data.

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Learning vim can be quite intimidating, but it's well worth it. Once you master vim, you'll be editing text more efficiently than ever.

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This short guide will show you how to list all loaded modules in Apache. This guide assumes that apache (httpd) is installed and running.

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This guide will show you how to install the PHP mycrypt module on RHEL 6.

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Enabling short open tags gives you access to opening your PHP script with <? rather than the full <?php and also includes <?= '...' ?> as a replacement for <?php echo '...'; ?>.

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If you're logged into a machine, you may want to know exactly which version of linux you are using.

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Public key encryption is also known as asymmetric because it requires two different keys - a public key and a private key. Encryption requires the public key, and decryption requires the private key.

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Printing an array in PHP is one of the most basic and necessary functions. Here are a few tricks and tools to make it easier.

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There are some fundamental git commands that you will use frequently that are hard to work into a "how-to" guide. Here are some basic git commands and how to use them. These are in no specific order.

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If you're working on your development environment but you need access to a branch that someone else has pushed to "origin" then you'll need to follow these steps.

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Once you've created a mysql database you'll want to add users and give them rights over specific databases or tables.

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With the release of Sublime Text 2, new files that are not in the same project are not opened in a new window. Fortunately, you can change this default behavior for Sublime Text 2 and Sublime Text 3.

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If you've just installed mysql, you will probably want to create a password for the root user.

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If you're using PHP for web developoment, you may often want to check the syntax of your file without opening it in a browser. Checking syntax is quite easy from the command line.

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When somebody bookmarks your website on their iPhone or iPad, you probably want your website's logo to appear as the bookmark icon.

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This guide will show you how to properly commit and push your work in Git. It is assumed that you have Git installed and that you're currently in a clean master branch.

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