At times, it might be unavoidable to have different CSS rules for Internet Explorer than for sane browsers. Using Sass...

jeffkreeftmeijer.com

Back when Steak was first released, Capybara didn’t have any of the nice RSpec helpers it does now. A...

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The Ubuntu Documentation on LaTeX says, that the packages tetex are no longer supported. You can install the alternative texlive...

redmine.org

Phillip Koebbe from Ruby on Rails suggested inserting following code between the "bootstrap" and "initialize" sections of enviroment.rb. This hack...

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The information in this card is only relevant for Rails 2.3-era apps. This note gives a quick introduction into...

If you just upgraded to Bundler 10.0.10 you might get the following error when bringing up Rails: /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/psych.rb:148:in...

Note that you cannot currently use Ruby 1.9.2 with Rails 2 applications that use RSpec, so don't upgrade if...

phantomjs.org

PhantomJS is a minimalistic headless WebKit. It has fast and native support for various web standards: DOM handling, CSS selector...

Sometimes you can make your life easier by not allowing a record attribute to be changed after the record was...

ActiveRecord comes with a method touch which sets the updated_at timestamp to the current time. Unfortunately it also runs...

devstructure.com

blueprint is DevStructure’s workhorse tool that looks inside popular package managers, finds changes you made to configuration files, and...

Specify these gem versions in your Gemfile: gem 'cucumber', '~> 1.3.0' gem 'cucumber-rails', '= 0.3.2' # max version for Rails 2

I don't like those buttons inside the header area of a message that Thunderbird 3 put there. Though the...

Sometimes you need to dynamically load an image and do something as soon as its loaded (when for example its...

ctan.larsko.net

If you plan to insert an existing PDF into a new LaTeX document that you will compile to PDF, you...

Merging .po-files with Git is painful. There have been attempts of making Git more clever when trying to merge...

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github.com

The shell variable PS1 holds your bash prompt. You might want to change it to serve your needs best. Here...

pluginaweek.org

Now allows to list transition paths from and to arbitrary states.

Add deprecation warnings and their solution or link to available solutions. Global access to Rake DSL methods is deprecated. Please...

wiki.apache.org

With SNI, you can have many virtual hosts with HTTPS sharing the same IP address and port, and each one...

If in your application your users pass along params that result in filenames, like invoices/generated?number=123. This could be...

Pie sometimes does not properly redraw elements upon changes. This often happens when the change comes from somewhere further up...

bonsaiden.github.com

JavaScript Garden is a growing collection of documentation about the most quirky parts of the JavaScript programming language. It gives...

Install OpenSSH Server: sudo apt-get install openssh-server To check if the server is running you should get no...