Open the configuration file: gksudo gedit /usr/share/vte/termcap/xterm Find a line like this: :co#80:it#8:li#24:\

Ubuntu lets you mount an SSH shell into Nautilus from Places -> Connect to server (select "SSH" as server type).

Screen is great for long running tasks, where you want to log in every few hours and days and keep...

In a nutshell: to avoid your shell character set from messing with imports, use -r to export and SOURCE when...

ALTER DATABASE database_name CHARACTER SET "utf8"; ALTER DATABASE database_name COLLATE "utf8_unicode_ci"; After that, for...

From the shell: ls -l | wc -l

home_run is an implementation of ruby’s Date/DateTime classes in C, with much better performance (20-200x) than...

Currently not possible as the linked .htc file contains JavaScript which is not explicitly called. The developers are working on...

When you get this while installing the raspell gem: ERROR: Error installing raspell: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension...

When you get this error: No word lists can be found for the language "de". An aspell dictionary is missing...

For example, to send a form and populate a preview div with the response. $('content_form').request({ parameters: { 'preview': "1...

Increasingly web application developers and entrepreneurs are turning to the “Software As A Service” (SaaS) model to monetize their products...

The Rails router has been written and rewritten at least four times2, including a recent rewrite for the upcoming Rails...

Ancestry is a gem/plugin that allows the records of a Ruby on Rails ActiveRecord model to be organised as a...

Compress and obfuscate Javascript code online completely free using this compressor.

In Webkit you can use the HTML5-attribute autofocus: = form.text_field :title, :autofocus => 'autofocus' Here is a jQuery fallback for...

When a Cucumber feature leaves your page through an external Link, Webrat has problems like "Could not find field: "E...

This may be awkward to set up, but will work once you're done. Fun facts:

To retain all branches you can try the svn2git tool. However, this tool has some bugs. To only import the...

Create a branch: svn copy https://dev.makandra.de/svn/filepanic/trunk https://dev.makandra.de/svn/filepanic/branches/$ticketnumber_shortdesc Don't just copy the folder into your working...

Some browsers render PNG images with color profiles and other shenanigans, some don't. The cleanest way to have consistent...

Most of these will not work in newer projects because these use the Capybara/Rack::Test combo in lieu of Webrat...

When a paperclip attachment gains a new style and you have many attachments, reprocessing can take ages. This is because...