Awesome battle report from Pinterest trying to scale their setup using different approaches. When you push something to the limit...
What you copy may not be what you see in the browser. Here is an online tool to determine the...
Guide how to make fixes in other people's GitHub repositories. It's basically "Open Source Development 101".
In our continued quest to extract proven code snippets from makandropedia into tested and upgradable gems, we have released Edge...
Do not investigate in the 2342 tools that exist for migrating IMAP accounts from one server to another. They all...
validates_uniqueness_of is not sufficient to ensure the uniqueness of a value. The reason for this is that in...
Apache HTTP server benchmarking tool (ab) is a nice tool to test performance on sites delivered by HTTP. If the...
li.active a:link Example output (specificity): | 0 | 2 | 2 | See also: https://www.codecaptain.io/tools/css-specificity-calculator
When you want to copy/move from a shared folder (on Windows guests, for example) and it fails with absurd error...
When you are trying to install/update VirtualBox Guest Additions on your guest machine but the setup is for a different/older...
If you don't want to mess around with arcane incantations inside xorg.conf, you can use the graphical arandr tool...
If you have a PNG and want to know a pixel's alpha channel value, you can use Gimp:
Unlike in Gnome, there is no graphical tool to set a mouse cursor in Xfce. Run this on a terminal...
While you can set your own font in your terminal or other tools, it will not change the default "Monospace...
Having your site run on SSL is worthless when you include content over an unsafe connection (HTTP).
Richard Powell presents a collection of CSS styling advice that's mainly taken from SMACSS. Although at makandra we're...
StaticMatic is a nice tool to build simple static websites. In case you want to have some nifty styles on...
If a customer calls and tells you that she cannot see some content of her website beware of the following...
Every now and then, Java is subject to security issues where code can break out of Java's sandbox and...
Jedes nicht rein private Profil auf Social Media Portalen muss ein Impressum haben, das heißt insbesondere Unternehmen und Freiberufler (§ 5...
In Selenium features the server and client are running in separate processes. Therefore, when mocking time with a tool like...
The usage shares of your site highly depends on your target audience. E.g. no Internet Explorer has ever seen hollyapp.com...
The Rails community has been abuzz with object-oriented programming, SOLID principles, laws, design patterns, and other principles, practices, and...