OAuth requires a set of params to be carried along requests, among which a nonce. Some libraries pass these along...

Awesome is a very good tiling window manager that provides neat features like automatic layouting of windows, good multi-display...

If you want to access top-level constants inside a BasicObject class, you need to prefix them with ::.

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When creating an index using CREATE INDEX, Postgres will create a B-Tree type index by default. The B-Tree...

You can use JavaScript to get or set cookie values on the client. Using the vanilla JavaScript API

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Git commands tend to come in groups. Avoid typing git over and over and over by running them in a...

jQuery's deferred objects behave somewhat like standard promises, but not really. One of many subtle differences is that there...

This card existed before, but was outdated due to browser implementation changes. The information below is validated for the current...

While IE9 does support HTML5 tags, it fails to work until you force HTML5 mode. Here are two ways to...

Current webkit browsers like Chrome and Safari have a special variable in their consoles that refers to the selected DOM...

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The NestedHash class allows you to read and write hashes of any depth. Examples: hash = {} NestedHash.write hash, 'a', 'b', 'c...

You can find out about disk space usage of all tables within your database by running this: SELECT table_name...

The attached Coffeescript helper will let you create mouse events: $element = $('div') Trigger.mouseover($element) Trigger.mouseenter($element) Trigger.mousedown($element) Trigger.mouseup($element...

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Enter any command into explainshell and it will explain it to you: split into separate commands (if present), with each...

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Sometimes you might want to check a short link for it's destination before clicking on it. Additional you get...

Some modern Javascript APIs return iterators instead of arrays. In plain Javascript you can loop through an iterator using

To upload a file via AJAX (e.g. from an ) you need to wrap your params in a FormData object.

If you want to inspect the compiled code of your erb (or haml) templates, you can run the following code...

RSpec provides a nice diff when certain matchers fail. Here is an example where this diff is helpful while comparing...

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This will give the target site full access to your Javascript environment through window.opener, if the target is on the...

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Stackprof is a sampling call-stack profile for Ruby 2.1+. Instead of tracking all method calls, it will simply collect...

Don't write resources :people, :concerns => :trashable Write resources :people do concerns :trashable end Why Writing a controller...

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Chrome has discontinued support for 32-Bit Linux builds and this might break your apt-get update.

If you are on a Linux shell and want to open a file with whatever default application is configured for...