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ClockPicker is a JavaScript and Bootstrap implementation of an Android-style time picker which looks and feels great. Unfortunately, it...

You want Spring for super-fast binstubs like bin/rails or bin/rspec which avoid Rails boot time. You want parallel_tests...

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Sometimes you might need to nest a git-project inside another git-project. The right strategy is to use submodules...

Things to check first Do you deliver fonts in a format that the target IE version understands? Did you double...

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Promises are the new way™ to express "Do this, and once you're done, do that". In contrast to callbacks...

On OSX (real or inside Browserstack), you need different keystrokes for your favorite special characters than you'd use on...

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Presentation about optimizing Ruby on Rails apps. From Nico Hagenburger (homify's lead frontend developer).

If you need to modify (e.g. add 2px) a Sass variable that defines multiple values as one (e.g. for short...

To simulate Rails' to_sentence in your JavaScript application, you can use these few lines of CoffeeScript code: joinSentence = (array...

This pretty-prints a JSON object, with two spaces of indentation: JSON.stringify(object, null, 2)

Ruby's __FILE__ keyword returns the path to the current file. On popular for this are Ruby binaries: #!/usr/bin/env ruby...

To check the currently running PG version from your Rails application (e.g. Rails console on your production server), simply do...

When you're nesting setTimeout(f, 0) calls, your browser will silently increase the delay to 5 milliseconds after the...

We're using Middleman for some static sites like our blog. Despite being very similar to Rails, Middleman does not...

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piwik.org

Piwik is the leading open-source analytics platform. As such, it is an alternative to Google Analytics. Since it is...

When your controller action raises an unhandled exception, Rails will look at the exception's class and choose an appropriate...

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The linked article shows what current browsers do when you click a link like this: 1-562-867-5309

PostgreSQL, unlike MySQL, treats strings as case sensitive in all circumstances. This includes comparison with = and LIKE collision detection in...

Here is a symbol of an eight note: ♪ Its two-byte hex representation is 0x266A. This card describes how to...

By convention, common protocols use a defined port, like 80 for HTTP or 443 for HTTPS. You can use nmap...

For some years Google Chrome has allowed you to add desktop icon for any web page by going to Tools...

When building a web application, one is tempted to claim it "done" too early. Make sure you check this list...

Chrome's developer tools automagically choose vertical or horizontal panel layout, based on their width. You can disable that magic...

So you downloaded a theme for Chrome a while ago and don't remember which one it is?