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How to use custom bootstrap libraries for bootstrap subthemes

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Technical Solution | 2 min read
Bootstrap is the most popular HTML, CSS, and JavaScript framework for developing responsive, mobile first websites. This framework is also a popular star in drupal themes. There are a lot of drupal themes based on bootstrap, using bootstrap library or subthemes created from bootstrap base theme. Its mobile ready design and predefined classes makes it easier to create a beautifully customized responsive theme.
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Learning New C++ Standards

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Technical Solution | 3 min read
For a long time I used to develop and maintained C++ applications. Sure the version is 98. But lot of things are happening in C++ community that I was not aware of. Now I got some free time I noticed those changes. The big change was a set of new standards are got approved(C++11. C++14) and few standards are waiting for approval.
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[Drupal] Meta tag is not showing when using custom page template files

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Technical Solution | 3 min read
In one of my Drupal projects, I was using metatag module to specify metatags in my entity. When I enabled the module in Drupal modules configurations and set metatgs in my contents, it was working perfectly. After some days I want to customize my content page, so I created a custom page template file for the content. Then onwards, in the Drupal site the metatgs I set is not showing in the content page.
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How to set up frame names to InDesign using Print UI API

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Technical Solution | 3 min read
This article is about setting frames names to InDesign templates and uploading steps which could be used as a reference when using Print UI. We need to do certain steps to reach our output. First thing to do is install Print UI extension for In Design, and we could use the extension, Window > Extensions > you could find Print UI add-ons.
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How to display the value in the text field in CK Editor using Selenium?

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Technical Solution | 3 min read
Suppose you have a site to test which has the following functionality. There is a text field and an editor. When we enter text on the text field, immediately it should be displayed on the editor. To be more clear, after entering the text on the field then focusing out from it, the values should be displayed in the CK editor. And our intention is to automate it using Selenium. Lets check how this can be automated.
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Importance of keeping the backups of websites

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Technical Solution | 3 min read
The data in websites can be easily lost or corrupted due to vulnerable attacks or human mistakes. So it is important to store the data safe and secure. The only way to ensure that the data is safe and secure is by keeping the backup of the site. Backup means copying the data in the site to another location so that it can be restored at any time when lost
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How to deploy files from a git repository via FTP

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Technical Solution | 4 min read
Git is very popular guy in the world of version control systems and it is distributed by nature Without using a VCS, handling a project's multiple versions will get you in trouble very often. If multiple people are working on same project, this may be thousand fold. But if your client's service provider only gave you ftp access and it happens quite often, so you have to handle the project without the help of git. But we can track files easily using git-ftp, without having ssh access to the server.
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Git cherry picking

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Technical Solution | 4 min read
Git is a control system for developing softwares. There are a number of git commands (Git reference). While searching bringing a commit from one branch to another, I came across an interesting topic called cherry picking. Cherry pick a commit? Sounds interesting!!!
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Difference between grep and egrep

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Technical Solution | 3 min read
Grep is an amazing utility on command line. Every one might have heard of grep. It's a great tool to search for a pattern with in a directory or in a file. On searching for a pattern using grep, the default result will print the pattern along with the line number at which the pattern is found. Grep is one of those handy commands on bash that are often used.
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How to integrate Stupeflix API with Postman Extension

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Technical Solution | 5 min read
Stuplefix is an API for automated video generation. Stupeflix accepts photos, music, videos, maps and text in the form of XML. XML passed along with other input parameters to Stupeflix cloud API for creating video. Stupeflix also allows us to create audio, thumbnail, upload to facebook, youtube tumblr etc. where as Postman extension is a chrome web browser extension for making calls to the Stupeflix API.
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[Solved] Forbidden You don't have permission to access / on this server

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Technical Solution | 2 min read
Recently, we came across an error - "Forbidden You don't have permission to access / on this server" while trying to run a new virtual host on our Ubuntu 14.04 machine. The first step to troubleshoot this type of issue would be to check at your Apache error logs as this specific type status can be thrown due to many reasons. Since we have Apache 2.4.7 installed on our system, each virtual host file should have the .conf extension. We corrected the extension also. But the issue was still there. However this information lead us to think on it further and finally we found the reason for the issue.
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What is the use of preventDefault() Method in jQuery

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Technical Solution | 2 min read
The preventDefault() method is used to stop any element form behaving its default behaviour. For example, if we have a hyperlink linked to a particular location. Using preventDefault() function we can restrict it from navigating to it the by a custom location in our javascript. You can use the method isDefaultPrevented to know whether this method was ever called (on that event object).
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How to set the image height displayed equal in all browsers

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Technical Solution | 2 min read
In this article, I am mentioning about how the height of an image can be changed depending on which browser is been used by the user. In one of our Drupal sites, the height of the images displayed in a gallery was shown different in different browsers. So we have set the height of the images displayed in the gallery by detecting the browser been used using the '$.browser' property in jQuery.
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