Cards can now be flagged as "Repeating". Every Wednesday, some of these cards will be moved back to the top...

For two years we've been using SearchableTrait which gives models the ability to process Googlesque queries like this: Contact.search...

Selenium cannot reliably control a browser when its window is not in focus, or when you accidentally interact with the...

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...

Xfce gives you a million options to configure your panels. Together with Xfce's sometimes arcane configuration UI, this can...

Global keyboard shortcuts can be configured in two separate panels in the Xfce Settings manager: Shortcuts related to managing windows...

When your file manager sorts file case-sensitively after a distribution upgrade, you probably need to reconfigure your locale settings...

If you tried out Compiz on top of Xfce and found it to be a world of pain like me...

If you can now longer hear or record sounds after upgrading Ubuntu, you probably need to re-tell Ubuntu which...

So you have multiple screens under Xfce and want to have one task bar on each screen, only showing applications...

If you don't want to mess around with arcane incantations inside xorg.conf, you can use the graphical arandr tool...

Go to Settings Manager / Keyboard / Application Shortcuts Add a shortcut for the Print key that calls xfce4-screenshooter -f

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...

odyniec.net

imgAreaSelect is a jQuery plugin for selecting a rectangular area of an image. It allows web developers to easily implement...

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yconst.com

Freetile is a plugin for jQue­ry that en­ables the or­ganiza­tion of web­page con­tent in an ef­ficient, dynamic and re­spon­sive layout...

progfu.com

I am talking about development speed. When your application starts growing and you start adding gems, it starts to take...

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github.com

The gem author Jonas Nicklas highlights in a Google Groups post that the release is not backwards compatible to 1...

makandra dev

The very useful andand gem does not play very nice with Ruby's SimpleDelegator (or vice versa). This following will...

ebobby.org

A technique to vastly reduce the number of join model records that need to be stored in the database.

If you get a stacktrace complaining about uninitialized constant MysqlCompat::MysqlRes a system library update might broke your gem.

This is super stupid: In the Thunar file manager, select the file Go to File / Properties / Open With (WTF!)

Since I use this a lot in my daily work and there were no scripts working properly for me, I...