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Let's start by understanding why you receive the following error message: XMLHttpRequest cannot load … has been blocked by CORS policy: No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource….

If you'd like to display a preview of some text without cutting ending the preview in the middle of a word you can use the following snippet: jQuery.trim("This is a…

Preventing bots from submitting forms on a website or web app is an absolute must, especially when you're receiving hundreds of emails about highheel specials in Russia 🙂 For some…

Although trivial, the difference between a parameter and an argument can often be a point of confusion for developers. A parameter can be defined as a variable in a method…

This is a commonly asked question and yet sometimes poorly answered, so here's the long and the short. Google AdWords Google AdWords allows you to create advertisements which appear in…

From time to time you might receive the following error when trying to install something: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock To fix this you can run the following command: sudo…

Opening large log files with the default text editor or nano very quickly becomes a resource hogging nightmare. To solve this install Vim: sudo apt-get install vim Open the file…

Even though OverGrive is a closed-source paid application, you'll want to give it a look. At $5 per Google account, you can access all the features available on the application.But…

Synfig is an open-source animation editing software that is free to download. Assuming you require a Debian distribution package, follow these simple steps for installation. To get started, open your…

By default Ubuntu logs cron results to: /var/log/syslog Should you want a dedicated Cron log you can do the following: nano /etc/rsyslog.d/50-default.conf Uncomment the following line: #cron.* /var/log/cron.log Restart rsyslog:…