A few git tips you didn't know about

Collection of useful tools in the Chrome JavaScript console.

Make the whole page editable

This is not special to Chrome, but still a clever thing:

document.body.contentEditable=true 

Taking time

You can easily measure the ti...

jquery-timing is a very useful jquery plugin that helps to remove lots of nested anonymous functions. It's API provides you some methods that help you to write readable and understandable method c...

I cringe every time I hear about someone who has spent years writing their ‘killer app’, but still hasn’t released it. My preferred approach is to get a solid, but minimally featured, v1.0 out there and then iterate like crazy based on real custom...

When you find yourself constantly ignoring a RubyMine warning, you can simple disable that warning and de-clutter your editor. E.g. in my Cucumber scenarios RubyMine underlines 90% of all lines because it does not know about [spreewald](https://gi...

If you ever wondered why a constant wasn't defined or wasn't available where you expected it to be, this article will help.

Also see Ruby constant lookup: The good, the bad and the ugly.

The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) is a European marketing association which has introduced a standard how advertising can be served to users in line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This standard ...

It's like a GUI for the famous git add [-p].

Select files with the up/down-keys and hit

• u for staging/unstaging the whole file
• Enter for showing the diff of a file
  • j and k to navigate in the diff
  • u again to stage/unstage...

As far as I know, the only plugin out there that handles this (semantic issue) correctly is Makandra’s Aegis. And they are GERMAN. It functionally works about the same as well. So props to them for that.

Search engines, such as Google and Bing are engineered to crawl static web pages, not javascript-heavy, client-side apps. This is typical of a search engine which does not render javascript when the search bot is crawling over web pages.

This...

Since May 2011 we are cutting new gems using Bundler, which is less painful than cutting gems using Jeweler. You...