Desktop Notifications with WebKit
Chrome now supports desktop notifications using WebKit's webkitNotifications API. This means you can create popup bubbles from Javascript.
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Use -webkit-line-clamp to natively truncate long (multi-line) texts with an ellipsis
Note: You won't need this for single lines of text. In this case it is better to just use the text-overflow property: Use CSS "text-overflow" to truncate long texts
You can use -webkit-line-clamp in your CSS/SA...
Freeze (vendor, unpack) a single Ruby gem with and without Bundler
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Working with or without time zones in Rails applications
Rails supports time zones, but there are several pitfalls. Most importantly because Time.now and Time.current are completely different things and code from gems might use one or the other.
Especially configuring an application that cares only...
PSA: When Redis (on LRU noeviction) reaches memory limits, keys with (any) expiry are removed, and keys without are not
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They may even want to set maxmemory-policy to noeviction to avoid keys being removed that you want to keep...
Here’s what we’ve learned about doing UI for mobile web apps with WebKit
Lately, we’ve been exploring ways to offer web apps that perform like native apps on mobile devices. For this short sprint we targeted mobile WebKit browsers—especially the default browsers on iOS and Android—because of their widespread use and ex...
Perform HTTP basic authentication in Cucumber (with or without Selenium)
This card describes a Cucumber step that lets you say:
When I perform basic authentication as "username/password" and I visit the admin area
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PhantomJS: Headless WebKit with JavaScript API
PhantomJS is a minimalistic headless WebKit.
It has fast and native support for various web standards:
DOM handling, CSS selector, JSON, Canvas, and SVG.
PhantomJS can be fully scripted using JavaScript. It is an optimal solution for headle...
What's wrong with defining JavaScript variables within if blocks? - Stack Overflow
Because javascript has something called "Hoisting" which makes your code do things it doesn't look like it should be doing. Basically, that means a javascript interpreter will move all var declarations, regardless of where they are in the body of ...
Running the Awesome window manager within Gnome
Note: Consider using MATE instead of Gnome 3 on newer system
Awesome is a very good tiling window manager that provides neat features like automatic layouting of windows, good multi-display s...
Rails: When defining scopes with class methods, don't use `self`
Sometimes it is useful to define a named scope by implementing a static method with the scope's name on the scoped class. For instance, when a method should decide which existing scope should be the next link in the scope chain. Take this class fo...