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server {
  listen 80;
  server_name www.example.com example.com;

  # Redirect all traffic to SSL
  rewrite ^ https://$host$request_uri? permanent;
}

server {
  listen 443 ssl default_server;

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Make /robots.txt aware of the Rails environment

You probably don't want Google crawling your development staging app. Here's how to fix that.

$ mv public/robots.txt config/robots.production.txt
$ cp config/robots.production.txt config/robots.development.txt

Now edit config/routes.rb to add a route for /robots.txt, and add the controller code.

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Convert Ethiopian dates to Gregorian dates in Excel

Formula

This formula operates on an Ethiopian date in cell A2. It assumes that cell uses a mm/dd/yyyy format, where the months are 1-13.

= IF(ISBLANK(A2), "", DATE(RIGHT(TEXT(A2, "mm/dd/yyyy"), 4) + 8, 1, 1) + ((LEFT(TEXT(A2, "mm/dd/yyyy"), 2) * 30) - 120 + MID(TEXT(A2, "mm/dd/yyyy"), 4, 2) - IF(MOD(RIGHT(TEXT(A2, "mm/dd/yyyy"), 4) + 1, 4) <> 1, 23, 22)))

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csvhead

This now lives at https://github.com/timcheadle/csvhead

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Mailcatcher makes it super easy to preview emails locally for development. These instructions let you run it all the time in the background on OS X.

Note: This assumes you are using rbenv

First, install mailcatcher. Do this in your home directory because it often has gem conflicts otherwise.

cd ~ && gem install mailcatcher

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.slider {
    cursor: pointer;
}

.nivo-directionNav a {
    position:absolute;
    top:45%;
    z-index:9;
    cursor:pointer;
    display: none;

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javascript:(function()%7Bassociate_tag%3D%27fourspace-20%27%3Blink%3D%27http://amazon.com/dp/%27%2Bdocument.getElementById(%27ASIN%27).value%2B%27/%3Ftag%3D%27%2Bassociate_tag%3Bwindow.prompt(%22Copy%20to%20clipboard:%22,link)%3B%7D)()%3B

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#
# Custom registration handlers for users (override devise's defaults)
#

class Users::RegistrationsController < Devise::RegistrationsController
  before_filter :authenticate_user!

  # Override the devise update method for registrations
  def update
    @user = User.find(current_user.id)

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May 03, 2012: http://practicegoodtheory.blogspot.com/2012/05/objectivist-roundup-may-3-2012.html
Apr 26, 2012: http://rationaljenn.blogspot.com/2012/04/objectivist-round-up-249.html
Apr 19, 2012: http://jasonstotts.com/2012/04/objectivist-blog-carnival-13/
Apr 12, 2012: http://ruleofreason.blogspot.com/2012/04/objectivist-round-up.html
Mar 29, 2012: http://theplayfulspiritrachel.blogspot.com/2012/03/objectivist-round-up.html
Mar 22, 2012: http://witlab.blogspot.com/2012/03/objectivist-round-up.html
Mar 16, 2012: http://ruleofreason.blogspot.com/2012/03/objectivist-round-up_15.html
Mar 11, 2012: http://practicegoodtheory.blogspot.com/2012/03/greece-defautls.html
Mar 01, 2012: http://ruleofreason.blogspot.com/2012/03/objectivist-round-up.html
Feb 23, 2012: http://rationaljenn.blogspot.com/2012/02/objectivist-round-up-241.html

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$ find images/icons
images/icons
images/icons/minus.png
images/icons/plus.png