If you tried out Compiz on top of Xfce and found it to be a world of pain like me...
Rarely, you might want to rebuild all gems with native extensions, because they might be compiled against outdated system libraries...
There is no reason to leave trailing whitespace characters in your project's files, so don't add any.
Localizing a non-trivial application can be a huge undertaking. This card will give you an overview over the many...
When you want to test how an web-application reacts in a specific resolution, you can set up a specific...
If you get this: Installing typhoeus (0.3.3) with native extensions /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/installer.rb:483:in `build_extensions': ERROR: Failed to build gem...
When trying to install the gherkin gem, you might encounter an error with the following lines: ERROR: Error installing gherkin...
jQuery UI's date picker and date time picker doesn't work on touch interfaces. Solution 1: Use Mobiscroll
You can say: $(element).is(':visible') and $(element).is(':hidden') jQuery considers an element to be visible if it...
When installing RMagick you may get an error messages like this: Version 2.13.1: checking for Ruby version >= 1.8.5... yes
Within an event handler, there are multiple methods to cancel event propagation, each with different semantics. event.preventDefault() Only prevents the...
PhantomJS is a minimalistic headless WebKit. It has fast and native support for various web standards: DOM handling, CSS selector...
Specify these gem versions in your Gemfile: gem 'cucumber', '~> 1.3.0' gem 'cucumber-rails', '= 0.3.2' # max version for Rails 2
jQuery offers many different methods to move a selection through the DOM tree. These are the most important: $element.find(selector...
Styling button tags across all major browsers is not easy. Many times you should be fine by using the native...
This is a bash script for those of you who need to install all gems for all projects (e.g. to...
Lately, we’ve been exploring ways to offer web apps that perform like native apps on mobile devices. For this...
You can use the whatlanguage gem to detect the language of a Ruby string. Note that it also has not...
When you get this while installing the raspell gem: ERROR: Error installing raspell: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension...
Until some future version of HTML gives us new native controls to use in a browser, at Google, we’ve...
A friend of mine calls it "the curse of the gifted" -- a tendency to lean on your native ability too...