When your Rails controller action responds with only a simple text, render text: 'Hello' may not be what you want...

I use this to simulate the (non-existing) :last-letter CSS pseudoclass, e. g. to insert a tombstone at the...

The error unexpected 'x' after 'DESCENDANT_SELECTOR' (Nokogiri::CSS::SyntaxError) (where x may be basically any character) occurs when the...

When using @media CSS queries, Internet Explorer 8 and below will fail to respect them. Though there are several options...

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React.js is a relatively new Javascript templating engine that has two-way-bindings like AngularJS or Batman. The interesting idea...

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menuetos.net

MenuetOS is an Operating System in development for the PC written entirely in 32/64 bit assembly language. Menuet64 is released...

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When you want the table headers to always stay around (e.g. because that table is huuuge), use the code below...

If you regularly get ActionView::MissingTemplate exceptions, maybe some bot visits your site requesting silly formats like: http://www.rails-app.com/makandra.html-username-2000...

getbootstrap.com

List of variables used in Bootstrap. Overwrite to customize your bootstrap application. When you are using bootstrap-sass, simply replace...

If you are using Angular and want something like Rails' simple_format which HTML-formats a plain-text input into...

stackoverflow.com

Check out the jsFiddle Demo. CSS .absoluteCenterWrapper { position: relative; /* Declare this element as the anchor point for centering */ } /* Positioning */ .absoluteCenter...

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When you, as a developer, look at the choices used to build a particular application, you’re blown away at...

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How to remove/disable the automatic XSS protection helper html escaping for Rails 3. This is probably a horrible idea.

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Batman is an alternative Javascript MVC with a similar flavor as AngularJS, but a lot less features and geared towards...

faviconit.com

Eduardo Russo was tired of complex favicon creation and created his own favicon generator. It's really easy and allows...

I had to deal with JavaScript Undefined Error while accessing a specific CKEditor instance to fill in text. Ensure everything...

Ask before leaving an unsaved CKEditor Vanilla JavaScript way, but removes any other onbeforeunload handlers: $(function(){ document.body.onbeforeunload = function() { for(editorName...

Make your custom web font available Add to ckeditor/config.js CKEDITOR.editorConfig = function(config) { config.contentsCss = [ '/assets/myCkeditorStyles.css', // any other file to encapsulate custom...

When you are working with Backbone models and inheritance, at some point you want to overwrite inherited methods but call...

relishapp.com

Sometimes you have a test expectation but actually want a better error message in case of a failure. Here is...

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mark-rolich.github.io

RulersGuides.js is a Javascript library which enables Photoshop-like rulers and guides interface on a web page Also available as...

If you have a text that is edited by WSYIWYG-Editor but want some length checking nevertheless, you need to...

Warning: Because of (unclear) rounding issues and missing decimal places (see examples below), do NOT use this when dealing with...

jacklmoore.com

Non-static elements will not inherit their parent's opacity in IE for no good reason. This can lead to...