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    How to fix the "Invalid tag value. This XML tag has an invalid value. Please fix it and resubmit." error when using the jekyll-sitemap gem.

    After I installed the jekyll-sitemap gem on my Jekyll website and tried to register the generated sitemap in my Google webmaster account, I received from Google the following error:

    Invalid tag value. This XML tag has an invalid value. Please fix it and resubmit.

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    How to save time, mouse clicks and keystrokes by using keyboard-shortcuts in Visual Studio.

    The following list contains my favorite keyboard-shortcuts in Visual Studio:

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    A list of helpful and often used commands of the npm package directory

    The following list contains npm commands that I use practically every day while working with packages in my node.js projects:

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    Create a drop-down list with custom options text and value in Angular

    It is a common practice that the text of the options of a select drop-down box is a combination of a shortcut and it’s full text label.

    For example consider the following array of JSON objects that a server might return:

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    var countries = [
        {"shortcut": "DE", "label": "Germany"},
        {"shortcut": "GB", "label": "Great Britain"}
    ];
    
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    How to deactivate Ruby code from executing when it is used inside a code example highlighted with pygments

    When you want to highlight ruby-code snippets you will deal with the problem that the code, even when it is wrapped inside the {% highlight ruby linenos %}…{% endhighlight %} tags, it gets executed and you do not see the code snippet itself.

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