When you register a delegated event using on (or the deprecated delegate / live), it is somewhat hard to manually trigger...

The rendered font often depends on the local font your system provides, therefore you often find a rule like below...

While you can use Apache as a reverse proxy, it tries to be too smart. Try nginx instead, it's...

LibreOffice Impress, Writer, etc. doesn't embed most fonts into the PDFs it generates. This means if you share a...

On recent/fresh installations of Ruby 1.8.7 you may encounter this error why calling any bundled binary (or just bundle exec...

The following snippet demonstrates how you could create excel files (with spreadsheet gem) and format columns so that they follow...

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With ngAnimate, you can easily animate certain events (see directive support). We'll make use of ngClass animations to style...

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We have a new gem Minidusen which extracts Dusen's query parsing and LIKE query functionality. Minidusen can no longer...

#reverse_order does not work with complex sorting constraints and may even silently create malformed SQL for rails < 5.

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Sometimes your code has long lines: describe 'foo' do describe 'bar' do really_long_line_really_long_line_really_long...

...managed by nova-compute. I didn't manage to find the cause of this behaivour yet, but I think it has something to do with the start order of the...

Watch out when saying something like 1.year in Rails. The result is not a Fixnum and can cause unexpected errors...

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There is no good equivalent for the Unix sudo command in Windows. Below are a few workarounds that are all...

We sometimes send calender data or tasks using iCalendar (ICS) via eMail as specified in RFC 5545. Recently, a customer...

Internet Explorer 5+ is aware of conditional comments that let you target HTML for selected versions of IE. For example...

Ruby's regular expressions can be represented differently. When serializing them, you probably want to use inspect instead of to...

With "attaching an event handler once" you possibly mean one of these two things: Register a function for an event...

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Gem to provide nice looking urls ("/blog/the-greatest-bug-i-never-fixed"). If you don't need anything too special (like i18n for the urls...

It's generally not trivial to change a datetime's seconds, minutes, etc in SQL. Here is how it works...

Occasionally some complex query must be processed on the database because building thousands of Ruby objects is impracticable.

...means that every require 'spec/something' must now be require 'rspec/something'. In spec_helper.rb, Spec::Runner.configure becomes RSpec.configure It has become really hard to extend specific example groups in rspec-rails (e.g...

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To change RAM size, VDISK size or VCPU count of an openstack instance you have to use nova resize. You...

In your Cucumber features you can't really click hidden elements when using Selenium (it does work for a plain...

The way MySQL's FULLTEXT tokenizer splits text into word tokens might not always be what you need. E.g. it...