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Recently as part of an effort to ramp up on (Spring)(https://spring.io/projects/spring-boot) in preparation for a new project, I ran into an issue. The issue was: the css was not being applied to a page. I had the following in my Thymeleaf template:

I had just pulled a Ruby on rails project from Github and then proceeded to execute the following command:

Several times when creating a rails application, I have come across this error, “Unable to find PostgreSQL”. The most recent case was when I was creating a rails 7.0.4 application with database option set to postgresql

When configuring the queue adapter in Rails 7.0.4 in application.rb file, the value you assign must be a symbol and not a string. I made the mistake of doing the later and I could not get Resque to work.

There has been a lot of coverage in the news about the “great resignation” , people leaving jobs and deciding to try something different. I gather that the reason you are reading this is because you are thinking of exploring a career in software development. I would like to offer...

I would like to believe that most people in software engineering are fully convinced of the merits of test driven development, but for the very few holdouts out there, maybe this little anecdote from an experience I had will persuade you to at least explore the practice.