XPath query syntax for selecting nodes in XML and HTML can be hard to grasp at first. A concise primer makes the core ideas easier to remember.

Feature reverts can block deployment when unfinished work must stay out of production; consolidating reverts into a few commits makes restoring them after release easier.

Cucumber feature files can live in subdirectories, but step definitions and support files need an explicit load path. Using -r features keeps subfolder runs working.

Printing GitHub wiki pages is awkward without print styles, but Markdown pages can be rendered locally and printed from generated HTML.

Printing repeated headers, footers, or watermarks is inconsistent across browsers; position: fixed works in Firefox, Opera, and Internet Explorer, but not in WebKit browsers.

Generate Git commits from Pivotal Tracker stories with geordi 0.7, now including a setup wizard, colored story states, and bold highlighting for your own stories.

Dead keys in XFCE make tilde and other symbols awkward for programming and terminal work. A keyboard layout variant without dead keys restores direct typing while keeping accented characters available.

Using Consul’s authorization matcher with RSpec 2.x on Rails 3.x can fail because of version incompatibilities. Compatibility requires adapting the matcher setup.

Firefox 3.6 users will be notified in April and moved to the latest stable release through the browser’s built-in update service.

cucumber.yml may be valid while rerun.txt is corrupted by parallel Cucumber workers writing at the same time, preventing Cucumber from starting.

Pull quotes need visual styling without duplicating article content or changing document structure, especially to avoid double reading in feeds and screen readers.

Printed raster images can look jagged because printer resolution exceeds screen resolution. Embedding them at higher resolution and scaling down with CSS improves print quality.

LibreOffice/OpenOffice.org Impress presentations can lose animation stages in PDF export; ExpandAnimations expands them so each stage becomes a separate page.

German UI labels for Mobiscroll date pickers on touch devices, including localized day, month, and time formats.

Touch devices often break jQuery UI date and datetime pickers. Mobiscroll or slider access buttons provide a usable mobile alternative.

Filter tagged records by all, any, none, or owner-specific tags with tagged_with options for flexible tag-based queries.

Visible UI lists must be sorted; unsorted record indexes and select options become hard to use once they grow beyond a few items.

Hidden form submit buttons cannot be clicked directly in Selenium-based Cucumber scenarios; temporarily revealing the element and ancestor containers makes the click possible.

Rails localisation can be managed with remotely editable translations, simplifying updates for multilingual applications without redeploying code.

Apple Mail search can stop returning results after upgrading to Mac OS X 10.7 Lion because mailbox indexing breaks. Rebuilding each mailbox restores Spotlight-based search.

XFCE panel items can be pushed to the right or centered with expanding transparent separators, avoiding manual spacing tweaks.

Capistrano output can be colorized with capistrano_colors; Capistrano v2.13.5+ includes it, while older setups can load the gem manually.