Starting Terminator with split screens is quite simple: Just store a layout and start Terminator with the --layout option.

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A very clever hack to parse a structured URL object is to create a element and set its href to...

If you get one of this errors: Error: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 400 on SERVER: ( ): found...

When putting phone numbers into web pages, you should use tel: links so smartphone users can click those numbers to...

github.com

BubbleTree is a library for interactive visualization of hierarchical data. Originally developed mainly for spending data, the library is now...

dmitrybaranovskiy.github.io

Raphaël is a small JavaScript library that should simplify your work with vector graphics on the web. If you want...

One of the many useful features of TextMate is autocompletion of words. If I were in TextMate right now, I...

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An amped-up alternative to Turbolinks that differs in points like this: It's opt-in instead of opt-out...

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tom.preston-werner.com

A perfect implementation of the wrong specification is worthless. By the same principle a beautifully crafted library with no documentation...

A great two-part article about various hacks you can use to create great-looking screen designers when you're...

stackoverflow.com

Have you ever opened a file with vim, edited it and when you wanted to save your changes it told...

If bower complains about a missing node binary, do not install Ubuntu's node package. Instead, you need to create...

Hash#fetch is a great way to ensure that a hash key is present. The error message when a key...

Rails migrations allow you to use a change method whose calls are automatically inverted for the down path. However, if...

Upgrading from Ruby 1.8.7 to 2.1.2 took me an hour for a medium-sized application. It involved hardly any changes...

For our production servers we use Passenger as a Ruby application server. While it is possible to use Passenger for...

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Cucumber allows for prose in features and scenarios. Example: Feature: Cancel account There are several ways to cancel a user...

On your credit card summary, you will find order numbers of rides with Deutsche Bahn ("DB BAHN A-NR XYZ123...

Google Calendar integration into Thunderbird suddenly did not work any more for me. Thunderbird kept asking me for my password...

If you make a gem with Bundler, you will get a rake release task that will instantly publish your gem...

makandracards.com

This is a problem when using Selenium with Firefox. We recommend using ChromeDriver for your Selenium tests. Firefox will not...

metricsgraphicsjs.org

MetricsGraphics.js is a library built on top of D3 that is optimized for visualizing and laying out time-series data...

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Using this gem I could get JSON generation from a large, nested Ruby hash down from 200ms to 2ms.

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Confusingly, RVM installs the bundler gem into the @global gemset, which is available to all gemsets and Rubies.