When using ActiveAndroid you may face the problem that the database Model class already declears an id field as primary key and you actually need that id field for your own purposes. The following will describe how to change the primary key identifier of ActiveAndroid so you can use your …

There are some fancy replacement icons for your applications available on dribbble. Sometimes you're bored of the ones originally shipped with the specific app. And eventually you find the app icon you want to use and don't know how to set it. Here's how you go and this short guide …

When using the desktop version of Ubuntu you'll eventually get or probably have the problem that apt-get update throws a lot "Failed to fetch 404 Not Found" errors. Additionally, you may have the same problem when running apt-get install. Don't worry, it will be fixed in a minute. {{outline}} The …

The nicest things are details. It's all about details, always. We were looking for nice effects to remove the break when loading recipe pictures for eatfoody and came across dominant picture colors. Concretely, the dominant picture color is the color that describes the given picture best in one color code. …

Update 19th Sept 2014: We added a reference to the GitLab Omnibus Readme as additional resources at the bottom of this post. This post describes how to configure a running GitLab instance with a (self-signed) SSL certificate. The following steps assume you already have a running instance of GitLab available. …

This error is strange, because it appears when you're trying to install a new package globally with NPM, npm install -g <package-name>. The output of this command is something like this: npm ERR! peerinvalid The package grunt does not satisfy its siblings' peerDependencies requirements! npm ERR! peerinvalid Peer …

Sorting in MongoDB can cause a lot pain (in the ass!). The problem: MongoDB always sorts case sensitive in the following order Numerics: 0-9 Uppercase letters: A-Z Lowercase letters: a-z For the following examples, assume the upcoming Tag schema and documents in our Tags collection: Schema { name: String, approved: boolean, …

Amazon S3 allows you to set permissions on file basis or per bucket. That is very helpful since you sometimes want to share a complete bucket with the rest of the internet. With the help of bucket policies you're able to make an S3 bucket publicly readable. However, you have …