The postMessage API is an alternative to JSONP, XHR with CORS headers and other methods enabling sending data between origins...
There are various ways to run external commands from within Ruby, but the most powerful ones are Open3.capture3 and Open3.popen3...
Occasionally, you have to talk to APIs via HTTPS that use a custom certificate or a misconfigured certificate chain (like...
run-one is a wrapper script that won't run the given command while another instance of it is running...
Using VCR to record communication with remote APIs is a great way to stub requests in tests. However, you may...
Using the dialog command you can launch ASCII-art dialogs from your shell scripts. Check out man dialog for a...
Add the following to /etc/rc.local: (sleep 3 && echo disable > /proc/acpi/ibm/bluetooth)& Bluetooth icon will be active for a few seconds, then...
The pages listed here contain tests and experiments about features, possibilities, browsers’ bugs concerning CSS. That is, over 200 experiments...
Line-height and vertical-align are simple CSS properties. So simple that most of us are convinced to fully understand...
Below is a list of some VIM settings I find useful. You can add them to your .vimrc. source $VIMRUNTIME/mswin.vim...
Sometimes your code has long lines: describe 'foo' do describe 'bar' do really_long_line_really_long_line_really_long...
As web developers, we know how easy it is to end up with web page bloat. But loading a webpage...
window.getSelection().toString(); Browser support: IE9+, Android 4.3+, Safari 5+
You can easily have a JavaScript hash/object that returns a default value for unset keys/properties -- as long as you need...
A collection of code snippets which return a boolean value for a regex comparison. regexp.match?(string) # Recommended for Ruby >= 2.4...
There seems to be a nasty bug in Chrome 56 when testing with Selenium and Capybara: Slashes are not written...
Adding a gem means you take over the liability towards the external code. Checklist Based on "To gem, or not...
If the application under test makes sound, you probably want to disable this during integration testing. You can use the...
Web technology is a broad field and you cannot be an expert in all aspects. However, it is useful to...
Just like we use gems on the server, we use third party JavaScript libraries in the browser. These typically provide...
We generally use multiple application servers (at least two) and you have to search on all of them if you...
Advanced cucumber features Learn about the following cucumber features: Doc Strings ("multiline strings") Tables Tags Before/after hooks Background Scenario outlines...
We have projects that have been developed using many different versions of Ruby. Since we do not want to...