If you're suffering from a huge de.yml or similiar file, cry no more. Rails lets you freely organize your...

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Last week saw a security issue with rails 2.3 that required a fix. While an official patch was provided, the...

Why string sorting sucks in vanilla Ruby Ruby's sort method doesn't work as expected with special characters (like...

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blogs.skype.com

Promises unified window for all chat conversations, better call quality. Upgrade seems to work fine. If you installed your old...

In large forms (30+ controls) new Capybara version become [extremely slow] when filling out fields. It takes several seconds per...

If you have a file that looks like a precompilation fingerprint, the Rails asset pipeline will not see it. So...

makandracards.com

The amount helper now retrieves the decimal separator from your I18n dictionary (number.format.separator) instead of hardcoding it to a comma...

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mediaqueri.es

A collection of inspirational websites using media queries and responsive web design. Curated by Eivind Uggedal (@uggedal).

ubuntudigest.blogspot.de

The linked article describes how to use a Firefox addon "Flash-Aid" to install a better build of Flash and...

This script loads a dump into your development database. You can provide the full path to you database dump like...

blog.jcoglan.com

Read the linked article together with this reply to get an appreciation for why it's a bad idea to...

When using the asset pipeline your assets (images, javascripts, stylesheets, fonts) live in folders inside app: app/assets/fonts app/assets/images...

xip.io

xip.io is a magic domain name that provides wildcard DNS for any IP address. Say your LAN IP address is...

derwiki.tumblr.com

Some advice for bulk loading many records into InnoDB and finishing before the sun burns out. Use with care.

cbs.umn.edu

You can search for large messages by folder or by your entire email account. Useful to reduce your mailbox size...

html5rocks.com

Some progress was made by browsers on implementing CSS filters like blur, greyscale or some other effects. You might already...

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goat1000.com

TagCanvas is a Javascript class which will draw and animate a HTML5 canvas based tag cloud.

If you are using VNC to run Selenium tests, it may be hard to see what's going on since...

jakearchibald.github.com

Building CSS mobile-first is the way forward, because blah blah blah progressive enhancement blah. Problem is, Internet Explorer prior...

eagain.net

Quick introduction to git internals for people who are not scared by words like Directed Acyclic Graph. The linked page...

The following snippet will convert a string with wildcards to a appropriate regexp, i.e. parse_wildcards("foobar") # => /\Afoo.bar\z/

Probably was in the repository once and got deleted in a commit that you pulled.

I had trouble serving an MP4 video to my iPad. Although the video complied with all the specs (H.264 codec...

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dzone.com

A collection of snippets to generate random number under certain conditions, as: gaussian with a specified distribution triangular distribution