Google Chrome has a subtle rendering bug that hits me once in a while. It usually occurs in sliders with...
On some machines, installing Ruby 1.8.7 with ruby-build can lead to this error: math.c:37:13: error: missing binary...
Whenever is a Ruby gem that provides a nicer syntax for writing and deploying cron jobs. Leading zeros are important...
When you have a large PG database, you may want to find out which tables are consuming the most disk...
When making requests using curl, no cookies are sent or stored by default. However, you can tell curl to re...
An end-to-end test (E2E test) is a script that remote-controls a web browser with tools like Selenium...
Slides for Henning's talk on Sep 21st 2017. Understanding sync vs. async control flow Talking to synchronous (or "blocking...
While the hardware mute button of my Lenovo x230 worked on Ubuntu 14.04 out of the box, it does not...
When localizing model attributes via I18n you may run into errors like this: I18n::InvalidPluralizationData: translation data {...
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Here is some JavaScript code that allows you to click the screen and get the clicked element's text contents...
This card will show you how to use git rebase --onto without confusion. Use case: You've got two feature...
This card compares patterns to store trees in a relation database like MySQL or PostgreSQL. Implementation examples are for the...
Below is a list of some VIM settings I find useful. You can add them to your .vimrc. source $VIMRUNTIME/mswin.vim...
We used zeroclipboard.js in some of our projects but now we switched to clipboard.js because it does not rely on...
So you downloaded a theme for Chrome a while ago and don't remember which one it is?
The following will search for all .feature files containing a search term and run them using geordi. find features/ -name...
PostgreSQL uses the C library's locale facilities for sorting strings: First, all the letters are compared, ignoring spaces and...
Many of our developers love to use the "awesome" window manager on Linux. However, RubyMine dialogs occasionally defocus while typing...
The NestedHash class allows you to read and write hashes of any depth. Examples: hash = {} NestedHash.write hash, 'a', 'b', 'c...
The following sums up all connections (ESTABLISHED, TIME_WAIT, FIN_WAIT, etc.) and sorts it: netstat -n | awk ' $5 ~ /^[0...
First, decide if you want to pull with rebase. There are some implications of changing this, so think before you...
From Rails 3.0.9, there is a method Hash#to_query that will turn a Hash into a query string:
Geordi is now (partially) tested with Cucumber. Yay! geordi cucumber supports a new @solo tag. Scenarios tagged with @solo...
The nokogiri gem provides different packages for several platforms. Each platform-specific variant ships pre-built binaries of libxml2, e.g...