mysqltuner.pl

This Perl script will run diagnostics on your MySQL database and recommend changes to your MySQL configuration.

When some of your Google contacts are no longer synchronized with your e-mail client or mobile phone, those contacts...

Sometimes, when running a rake task, RubyGems 1.8.5 raises an error: rake aborted! undefined method `specifications' for "/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8":String

If you want to use a helper_method my_helper_method inside a model, you can write ApplicationController.helpers.my_helper...

gist.github.com

When you encouter an unsafe string that you actually made html_safe before, perhaps you called one of the following...

richfrog.curzons.net

Get "PuTTY Link" and "Pageant" (an SSH key agent) from the PuTTY download page. Run pageant.exe, find its icon inside...

makandra dev

This card explains how to upgrade an existing RubyMine installation to a newer version. If you're installing RubyMine for...

chrisjean.com

In older Ubuntu releases you could ALT+drag any panel bar to another position and/or monitor. In Ubuntu 11.04 Natty...

37signals.com

We recently added custom fields to Highrise which allow you to keep track of extra details beyond standard contact information...

When rendering a number, you want to pretty up the string coming from #to_s: Render 0.0 as 0

Sass comes with many built-in functions to manipulate color. Some of the more interesting functions include: adjust-hue($color...

You can unpack a .tar.gz file into the current directory like this: tar -xzvf archive.tar.gz The options used are

You know there is the du command to fetch the disk usage of a directory (“.” in this example). By default...

This snippet makes links that refer to an anchor (like "...

...") scroll softly to it.\ In this example we only do...

schema.org

If you would like to enrich your website with semantic markup like contact data, places or events you should have...

crazylittlehacks.blogspot.com

I found a nice script on crazylittlehacks and modified it slightly. Put the attachment to /usr/local/bin, chmod +x and run...

devblog.imedo.de

XPath matchers can be combined with CSS-selector matchers. This is really useful if not, for example, the content of...

makandra dev

If you want to enforce soft tabs (spaces instead of tabstops) in Vim put this into your ~/.vimrc (Linux) or...

damieng.com

Very nice font for programming.

Update: Staticmatic will not be further developed. They suggest to switch to middleman. If you need to make a static...

blog.jayfields.com

Deprecated ways to execute shell code in Ruby This is just a reference for legacy code. For new code, always...

When your cucumber features grow massively over time, the test execution can take a lot of time.

This card shows you how to center a float horizontally in CSS. Also: find out what techniques are available for...

This is an awful way to test whether a number is shown on the screen: Then I should see "5...