Ubuntu 12.04 LTS x64, Ruby 1.8.7, Rails 2.13, PDFKit 0.5.4, Phusion Passenger Apache 2 I ran into this, when I...

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magnus-g.github.io

Awesome Sass plugin to experiment with Subtle Patterns based textures. It automatically removes the base color from the pattern, leaving...

A snippet of the carrierwave documentation You might come to a situation where you want to retroactively change a version...

tjvantoll.com

Did you know you can color your line-throughs or underline, or make them wavy like spell-checkers do?

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For all late night coders: The program "redshift" changes your monitors' white balance according to your position on the planet...

Exception notifications contain a lot of information: Backtraces, HTTP headers, etc. exception_notification tries its best to format this wall...

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Using CSS sprites for background images is a technique for optimizing page load time by combining smaller images into a...

1. Saving files to a directory that is not shared between deploys or servers If you save your uploads to...

Our development process makes us deploy very often. As the number of releases grows, junk clogs up the hard drive...

developer.mozilla.org

Non-SSL contents on SSL pages are blocked by default Bug 834836 – Turn on pref to block mixed active content...

coding.smashingmagazine.com

Smashing Magazine lists some handy tricks for print style sheets, all with CSS: Expand External Links For Print

If you need to capture signatures on an IPad or similar device, you can use Thomas J Bradley's excellent...

Ruby has two different ways to match the start and the end of a text: ^ (Start of line) and $ (End...

Microsoft provides virtual machines for different Internet Explorer versions. The images are available for various virtualization solutions, including VirtualBox...

github.com

Awesome color schemes for RubyMine, Sublime Text 2 and other editors. To install the themes into your Rubymine, copy intellij...

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github.com

Axlsx is an incredible gem to generate "Office Open XML" spreadsheet files (XLSX). Does not break on large spreadsheets and...

lorempixel.com

Generate dummy images for a given dimension and topic.

tympanus.net

A jQuery audio player plugin that is responsive and touch-friendly. The UI is css-only, no images used.

creativecouple.github.com

jquery-timing is a very useful jquery plugin that helps to remove lots of nested anonymous functions. It's API...

If - for whatever reason - you have to render stylesheets dynamically, the following snippet might be of help. It emulates what...

If you have a PNG and want to know a pixel's alpha channel value, you can use Gimp:

odyniec.net

imgAreaSelect is a jQuery plugin for selecting a rectangular area of an image. It allows web developers to easily implement...

Modern cameras often produce JPEGs that have a "I should be rotated 90° to the left" flag. If you process...

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chrome.google.com

Ever wanted to preview a pattern from Subtle Patterns on your site without the hassle of swapping out images and...