If the project team consists of at least 2 members, do a daily standup. It should not take much longer...

We organize our daily work with issues in our Linear workspace. Issue format A good issue needs to be precise...

devdocs.io

All browsers + IE9 know the CSS :empty selector. It lets you hide an element when it has no content, i.e...

makandra dev
blog.getbootstrap.com

Moved from Less to Sass. Bootstrap now compiles faster than ever thanks to Libsass, and we join...

You can make both mobile Chrome and mobile Safari display a native app install banner. The banner suggests that the...

Spreewald comes with a selector_for helper that matches an English term like the user's profile into a CSS...

aws.amazon.com

I am happy to announce that this information is now available in JSON form at https://ip-ranges.amazonaws.com/ip-ranges.json. The information...

If you'd like to preview the crontab that whenever will deploy, run the following: bundle exec whenever

You may encounter problems with passenger starting an application with an updated rails. If you find an error like this...

Use form models to handle this problem Or soften the validation to validates_presence_of :parent

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tig is a command line explorer for Git that is just awesome. Install via apt-get or brew. Handy commands...

CTRL + SHIFT + ALT + N Search for any symbol in your application, like CSS classes, Ruby classes, methods, helpers etc...

Jasmine comes with two matchers that test for equality. The first is toBe: expect(first).toBe(second) toBe passes when...

jasmine.github.io

The easiest way to freeze or travel through time in a Jasmine spec is to use the built-in jasmine.clock...

If you are writing any amount of Javascript, you are probably using closures to hide local state, e.g. to have...

github.com

The Bullet gem is designed to help you increase your application's performance by reducing the number of queries it...

The migration DSL now supports adding and removing foreign keys. They are dumped to schema.rb as well. At this time...

tl;dr: Use event.currentTarget unless you are absolutely certain that you need event.target. Since it hasn't been written down...

leomayleomay.github.io

Your after_commit callbacks will not know about changes, as Rails discards them when committing. The linked article shows a...

nateberkopec.com

Very detailed guide to caching Ruby on Rails. Goes well with the official Rails guide on caching.

If you see a stacktrace beginning with lines like this: E, [2015-07-16T09:23:10.896146 #23308] ERROR -- : app...

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getmdl.io

CSS (+ some Javascript) framework, implementing Google's material design for static web pages. Can be used for plain websites without...

Disabling auto-complete in login forms is probably a bad idea, since it encourages weak passwords. If you are still...

Today I ran into this: Invalid gemspec in [/usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/specifications/ZenTest-4.9.3.gemspec]: Illformed requirement ["< 2.1, >= 1.8"]. You need a newer Rubygems version. Try...