Web fonts are awesome. After being restricted to Arial for two decades there is finally a cross-browser way to...
When you install Type 1 fonts (like makandra's corporate typeface), they won't show up in OpenOffice. OpenOffice requires...
By default, Rails views escape HTML in any strings you insert. If you want to insert HTML verbatim, you need...
If you want to distribute a 's width equally over its columns, you can use the following CSS property:
Clearfix is a hack to clear floating elements without additional HTML markup. If you only need to support IE8 and...
RSpec 1 (Rails 2) With the most recent spec_candy.rb helpers you can say: User.stub_any_instance(:foo => :bar) user = User.new...
To show the collation of your tables you have to login to the MySQL console and execute SHOW TABLE STATUS...
You can convert git commits into patch files. Those can be used to apply to a different repository [1] or...
Using the jQuery adapter breaks the built-in save function of CKEditor. Phenomenon: The page is submitted correctly, but the...
The Rails logger will store its content in a buffer and write it into the file system every 1000 lines...
In order to monitor a Rake task using God your Rake file must write a file with its process ID...
Calling #gsub on a string that was previously marked as #html_safe will lead to unexpected behavior. E. g. backreferences...
Generally for nested forms, a blank form is placed below all other existing object forms. If you would like to...
Single step and slow motion for Cucumber scenarios can come in handy, especially in @javascript scenarios. # features/support/examiners.rb AfterStep('@slow_motion...
Since version 11.10 Opera provides support for linear gradients using -o-linear-gradient. The syntax is pretty similar to Mozilla...
Recently, we had an interesting lunch-break with the rails 3.1. asset-pipeline in production mode. Daniel Zahn made a...
You can use the step definition below to say this: Then the "Last name" field should have an error
The technique described in this card has an important caveat: The result of GROUP_CONCAT is truncated to the maximum...
You can use heredoc to avoid endlessly long lines of code that nobody can read. Heredoc strings preserve linebreaks and...
There is a new card about how to do this with the new AWS Command Line Interface
Most likely you run rake and your code is causing an exception which is not the one shown in your...
whatsmydns.net is an online service that allows you to instantly perform a DNS lookup to check a hostnames current IP...
When installing your first formula, Homebrew may complain about not being able to access certain directories. The easiest solution to...
cURL makes a web request and shows you the response body. You can redirect the response body to /dev/null just...