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...
If you would like to enrich your website with semantic markup like contact data, places or events you should have...
I found a nice script on crazylittlehacks and modified it slightly. Put the attachment to /usr/local/bin, chmod +x and run...
XPath matchers can be combined with CSS-selector matchers. This is really useful if not, for example, the content of...
If you want to enforce soft tabs (spaces instead of tabstops) in Vim put this into your ~/.vimrc (Linux) or...
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...
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...
Install FreeBSD Download a suitable image from this site Select File > New… to and follow the instructions, choose the .iso...
If you need to strip carriage return characters from a text file, you can use Vim: vim file.txt
Internet Explorer 5+ is aware of conditional comments that let you target HTML for selected versions of IE. For example...
If you want to play music or sounds from a browser, your choice is to use either Flash or the...
We often have a separate production branch that lags a bit behind the more cutting edge main branch. Sometimes you...
You can seriously speed up deployments with Capistrano when using a local git repository on the server you are deploying...
Ruby comes with a class BigDecimal which you can use for arbitrary precision arithmetic. You should use BigDecimal instead of...
When storing floating-point numbers such as prices or totals in an SQL database, always use a DECIMAL column. Never...
When deploying an application with "cap deploy" by default [1] you only deploy your code but do not run migrations...
Airbrake (formerly Hoptoad) already ignores certain errors like InvalidAuthenticityToken by default (see Airbrake::Configuration::IGNORE_DEFAULT).\ To ignore additional classes...
Sass now comes with user-defined functions, keyword arguments, list manipulation. Haml and Sass are now two separate gems.
Awesome presentation for the new HTML5 features we will get to play with. This presentation should probably be viewed in...