Ubuntu natty introduced new "invisible" scrollbars for GTK programs such as gEdit or Nautilus. If you do not like them...
When using gnome-open (i.e. double-clicking a file, telling to browser to open a download, etc.) on Ubuntu you...
Install FreeBSD Download a suitable image from this site Select File > New… to and follow the instructions, choose the .iso...
Install Ubuntu Server Download an image from this site Select File > New… to and follow the instructions, choose the .iso...
Automatically convert bitmap images like JPEGs, GIFs and PNGs to the crisp, clean, scalable vector art of EPS, SVG, and...
Reading a URL via GET: curl http://example.com/ Defining any HTTP method (like POST or PUT): curl http://example.com/users/1...
By default, Opera 11 hides any passed params and the URL's protocol until you focus the address bar.
Artifice allows you to replace the Net::HTTP subsystem of Ruby with an equivalent that routes all requests to a...
Liquid Canvas is a JavaScript library which allows you to draw inside an HTML canvas element with an easy yet...
blueprint is DevStructure’s workhorse tool that looks inside popular package managers, finds changes you made to configuration files, and...
track down warnings and to see failing specs immediately or to get an overview of the core...
There is no good equivalent for the Unix sudo command in Windows. Below are a few workarounds that are all...
This tool is used on our application servers (and called when deploying) but it also works locally. Just call dumple...
You know Firebug as a Firefox extension but there is also a "Lite" version which runs purely off JavaScript.
If you need to find out which of your local commits are not on the remote server do this:
This is non-trivial because you need to fake event objects and require different code for different browsers. Luckily, there...
A good tool to generate strong passwords and secrets is "apg". You can get it with sudo apt-get install...
In july Google announced a new version of their image serach tool Google Images. But you won't find it...
sudo apt-get install i8kutils Reboot You can now run the i8k tools such as i8kmon Setting the fan speed...
There will probably be better solutions as we become more experienced with using Bundler, and more command line tools become...
This may be awkward to set up, but will work once you're done. Fun facts:
To retain all branches you can try the svn2git tool. However, this tool has some bugs. To only import the...
See the lemonade descriptions. Unfortunately, the gem has a few problems: it does not work with Sass2...
Basic configuration Please keep this config simple. It should be a starting point for new developers learning Git. [user]