There are cases when you need to select DOM elements without jQuery, such as: when jQuery is not available

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wtfoperamini.com

In developing countries like Nigeria, Opera Mini is used by up to 70% of users on mobile.

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github.com

Remove some old binaries (commands still exist in geordi) and mark others as deprecated Rewrite deploy command to support...

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When you're using feature branches, they will stack up if you don't delete them after the merge to...

Until recently, you could open a new tab via window.open when using execute_script in Selenium tests. It no longer...

The nokogiri gem provides different packages for several platforms. Each platform-specific variant ships pre-built binaries of libxml2, e.g...

E-mails are usually encoded using Quoted Printable. Here is how to decode or encode such strings. You probably know...

Regular expressions in Javascript are represented by a RegExp object. There also is a regex literal as in many other...

github.com

You know that Devise offers RSpec test helpers for controller specs. However, in request specs, they will not work.

I recommend to go straight to 2.1.5+ without intermediate steps. Otherwhise you burden yourself with unnecessary work of encoding problems...

Spreewald 1.3.0 comes with these steps: Then I should see an element ".panel" Then I should not see an element...

Ruby has the class Proc which encapsulates a "block of code". There are 2 "flavors" of Procs: Those with "block...

ruby-doc.org

This class contains nerdcore things such as disassembling a piece of Ruby into VM calls or enabling tail-call optimization...

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stackoverflow.com

When there's a Gemfile.lock in your working directory that you cannot remove by either checkout, reset [--hard], stash, probably...

Simply add this to your .rspec instead: --require spec_helper If you are on rspec >= 3 and use a rails_helper.rb...

I had a very frequent cronjob that in rare cases could be relatively slow. To avoid multiple instances of this...

docs.google.com

A very informative and interesting presentation about browsing performance, looking at efforts Google Chrome takes to increase it.

From time to time, RubyMine suddenly did not accept any keyboard input and felt crashed, while mouse interaction was still...

cssfontstack.com

Web safe fonts are fonts that are pre-installed by many operating systems. While not all systems have the same...

mail-tester.com

You can use mail-tester.com to check your application's e-mails for issues that might cause e-mails to be...

You can configure a stat socket for haproxy in the global section of the configuration file: global daemon

With "attaching an event handler once" you possibly mean one of these two things: Register a function for an event...

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github.com

Note This card does not reflect the current state of lazy loading technologies. The native lazy attribute could be used...

github.com

Ag (aka "the silver searcher") is a very fast replacement for grep. It will parse your .gitignore for additional speedup...