This note summarizes the ruby exception hierarchy. Exception NoMemoryError ScriptError LoadError NotImplementedError SyntaxError SignalException Interrupt Timeout::Error # < ruby 1.9.2 StandardError...
Firefox, Opera and Internet Explorer will repeat elements with position: fixed on every printed page (see attached example).
Under XFCE keys like tilde are dead by default, which is impractical for programming and terminal work. To get rid...
Firefox 3.6 users will receive update notifications in April offered through the browser’s internal updating service that will update...
Though Internet Explorer 9 supports the box-shadow CSS property there is a nasty bug which sometimes prevents it from...
A pull quote is a typographical technique in which an excerpt or quote from an article is duplicated within the...
When you print out a HTML pages, all raster images (like PNGs) will appear aliased. This is because a printer...
jQuery UI's date picker and date time picker doesn't work on touch interfaces. Solution 1: Use Mobiscroll
Although it's tempting flirt with detecting mobile/touch devices with CSS media queries or Javascript feature detection alone, this approach...
In your Cucumber features you can't really click hidden elements when using Selenium (it does work for a plain...
Add a separator between left-aligned and right-aligned items. In the separator properties, set the style to "Transparent" and...
A list of CSS vendor-prefixes.
Submit buttons in Rails come with a useful option :disable_with which will disable the button when clicked and change...
List of non-standard CSS attributes that change how the browser resamples scaled images. Only use them if you know...
For university I have to stay up-to-date with lecture documents. Since my university doesn't offer RSS feeds...
To reduce download time, application servers usually serve content using gzip compression, if the browser supports it.
If you turn on stylesheet caching, it might happen that stylesheets from different locations with different relative pathes will be...
Git has a built-in repository viewer for your web browser. a bit similar (but less awesome) than github.
Gem to generate entity relationship diagrams from your Rails 3 ActiveRecord models. The diagram style is pretty and configurable.
If you would like to use language specific layout (e.g. background-images) in your applications stylesheets you can achieve this...
You can group contacts using a mailing list in Thunderbird for easier access and less trouble when trying to find...
In order to prevent the browser from asking whether to remember the password, give a form an autocomplete attribute with...
Forms with many inputs (600+ in my case) become extremely unresponsive on an iPad, up to the point where it...
If you get an error like this: Unable to launch /home/bruce/Projects/myproject/tmp/capybara/capybara-201110311210111407691101.html ... update your launchy gem. It failed for us in...