Linux provides a fix number of filesystem watches. If you have some greedy daemon (like dropbox) running, chances are it...
After updating Rubygems you see a wall of deprecation warnings like this: NOTE: Gem::SourceIndex#add_spec is deprecated, use...
Note that if you plan to downgrade Firefox because your Selenium tests broke after a Firefox upgrade, there is a...
Pdfposter is a Python script that allows to convert large PDFs into a PDF with multiple pages that can be...
When the Ruby parser module of Ruby-GetText comes across a file in one of its search directories (e.g. lib/scripts...
Grep prints one line per match. To return the number if matches, use the -c switch: grep -c "something" filename...
Vim allows recording a batch of commands as a macro. This is handy if you need to do the same...
To avoid sending e-mails containing sensitive data unencrypted I strongly suggest you enable a confirmation dialog. Enigmail can show...
If you are in the middle of a file and want to scroll, but don't want to move your...
The addon lets you set the format of the dates used for the year and month folders that the Archive...
This is now part of geordi. Please don't follow the instructions below, if you use geordi. Inspired by the...
When you have a program running in a hidden X screen (like with Xvfb for Selenium tests) you may want...
Ubuntu comes with keyboard layouts like "Germany Eliminate Dead Keys", which are practical for programming. If you need to type...
Free Hoptoad/Airbrake alternative which can capture exceptions from any platform. It comes with a Rails notifier and a RESTful API...
When have you last used your caps lock key? On purpose? Right... In Gnome Make it an additional ESC key...
We usually generate our commit messages from Pivotal Tracker IDs and titles, like [#15775609] Index view for conflicts
Sometimes you need a file of some size (possibly for testing purposes). On Linux, you can use dd to create...
Some folks have started to keep their linux configuration in a git repository called "dotfiles". This sounds like a good...
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We are changing our name from Hoptoad to Airbrake. You see, some folks much larger than us reached out and...
VirtualBox does not offer anything for this task -- you need to do it yourself. It's not that hard:
When you do a bitwise copy using the dd tool you will not see any output until it completes or...
With gem dependency it is possible to check the dependencies for your gem before you install it.
When you generate a URL in a mailer view, ActionMailer will raise an error unless you previously configured it which...