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Remove a file from git without removing it from your file system

If you are not careful during a git add, you may end up adding files that you didn’t want to commit. However, git rm will remove it from both your staging area, as well as your file system, which may not be what is needed. The file should be removed only from Git-repository without removing it from the file system.
Submitted by Alma Causevic on Sat, 11/18/2017 - 17:25

Starting Docker on Windows

In order to start Docker on Windows, a Hyper-V as well as the Hyper-V Module for Windows Powershell are required to be installed and enabled. Otherwise you get a error message.
Submitted by Alma Causevic on Sat, 11/18/2017 - 17:20

Adblocker blocks Webpage content

More and more websites are asking (or sometimes requiring) visitors to turn off ad blockers before allowing them to view the site's contents. It's sometimes possible to prevent sites from detecting the usage of an ad blocker (e.g. turn off JavaScript). But doing so can cause parts of the site to stop working. I want to get to the site's content without having to turn off the Adblocker.
Submitted by Alma Causevic on Sat, 11/18/2017 - 17:16

Android - synchronize all

I have to implement a “synchronize”-button in an Android app such that when pressing the button the local data is synchronized with a server. I (a beginner in this field) have to access a REST-Interface to send new data, which was generated on the app and request new data to update the local database with data from the server. The app should monitor for each database table - synchronization if something went wrong (esp. when sending data to the server-db) and immediately stop if so.
Submitted by Markus Bretterbauer on Sat, 11/18/2017 - 12:32

Import Javascript libraries into Angular 2

I had and still have not much experience in web engineering (Javascript, npm-Tool, …) when I started working with Angular 2. There I have a problem that normally one imports an angular-module with e.g. “import {Injectable} from '@angular/core';”. But I want to use the Javascript-library “cytoscape.js”. The problem now is, how to import it such that I can use it.
Submitted by Markus Bretterbauer on Sat, 11/18/2017 - 12:18

Transfer "complex" DTO via REST

I have to transfer a quite complex “data transfer object” (DTO) from an Android app via REST to a backend server. I use the Spring framework (Spring boot) which by default encodes the DTO via Jackson. However, the server never recognizes this object as a whole and assignes it or a subset of it to null.
Submitted by Markus Bretterbauer on Sat, 11/18/2017 - 12:13

How to reliably stop autoplay of videos on various websites

Autoplaying of videos on various websites (Facebook, Youtube, or other websites where the advertisement plays automatically) can be annoying sometimes. What is the possibility to disable such behavior in favorite browsers file Chrome, Opera or Firefox ?
Submitted by Jana Koukalova on Sat, 11/18/2017 - 09:32

Visualization of RDF data - TTL format

When somebody want to visualize RDF data in TTL (Turtle) format, what online free solution he can use? I would like to see a graph representation of the data in the TTL file. There exist a lot of solutions for XML format but I am interested in TTL format.
Submitted by Jana Koukalova on Sat, 11/18/2017 - 09:20

How erase data in Apache Jena Fuseki

My problem is following: I created a new dataset with the name A in Apache Jena Fuseki, uploaded data B and erased dataset. I created a new dataset A and uploaded different data C. Why the original data B is still visible in the newly created dataset?
Submitted by Jana Koukalova on Sat, 11/18/2017 - 09:11

How to stop pop-ups in chrome

Many times when we try to find something on the internet using Chrome we find the problem of pop-ups. Trying to perform a search with pop-up windows showing up is annoying and makes searching difficult.
Submitted by Maria Campos Pichel on Fri, 11/17/2017 - 17:24

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