Let's say you have an Explorer window showing a directory and want a cmd terminal to be opened there.\ While you needed a PowerToy on Windows XP, this is...
...a build-in feature for Windows 7. Simply press and hold the Shift key and right-click a folder icon or into empty space of an Explorer window.\
If you're using the Capybara webdriver, steps sometimes fail because the browser hasn't finished loading the next page yet, or it still has a pending AJAX request. You...
...ll often see workarounds like When I wait for the page to load Then ... Workarounds like this do not work reliably, will result in flickering tests and should be avoided...
...to facilitate website testing in multiple versions of IE, regardless of the host operating system. Unfortunately, setting these virtual machines up without Microsoft's VirtualPC can be extremely difficult. These...
...scripts aim to facilitate that process using VirtualBox on Linux or OS X. With a single command, you can have IE6, IE7, IE8 and IE9 running in separate virtual machines...
...open files with "full" (100%) zoom and not try to fit them to your screen? Tough luck -- there is no setting for this. But, after opening the file, you can...
...any TTF or OTF font (license permitting), by bringing in font glyphs as vector shapes, providing a completely overhauled font generated to the user's specification with alternative metrics options...
...alternative hinting types, kerning and spacing options and the facility to make any average free font look great. Examples are here
...mark up links that should use Wiselinks It can refresh content in a given selector only (think framesets), whereas Turbolinks always refreshes the whole body It can submit forms without...
Imagine all the syntactical delights of Ruby and Haml for your JavaScript. You write in a nice language, but get normal JavaScript at runtime. All whilst having full access to...
...3rd-party JavaScript libraries (jQuery, PrototypeJS), debugging support (it becomes pure, readable JavaScript), existing support from test suites (it’s normal JavaScript) and growing support from various text editors (TextMate...
When you are working with jQuery selectors and collections, many times you want to know if the collection actually contains the elements you wanted to select. Here's a tiny...
Service that you can integrate for user feedback. Super-simple integration: Add a...
Apple’s App Store was a constant source of stress in the development process. Every time another story of Apple randomly booting an app from the store came out, the...
...Apple could deny the app, or even keep it in limbo forever, made us second- or third-guess every design decision. “Will this pixel hurt our chances of getting accepted...
Testing with real live production data does come with at least one catch. All those real live users in your...
Web designers must be free to experiment with these new fonts, to sketch, comp and get to know these typefaces in browser and non-browser applications. This is...
This isn't about commercial software vs. Open Source software. It's about assessing your real needs and understanding the cost-benefit balance before making significant financial decisions. Don't...
...Gemfile.lock in your working directory that you cannot remove by either checkout, reset [--hard], stash, probably Rails' Spring is the culprit and not Bundler itself. Fix spring stop
...of the linked Stackoverflow post supposes Spring re-writes the Gemfile.lock on change to ensure all Spring processes are using the same gem versions. Meh...
Lightweight Angular JS directive to upload files Includes polyfills for old IEs. Unfortunately, their auto-loading mechanism may not work...
...buy iApps. Buying an iPad for your kids isn't a means of jump-starting the realization that the world is yours to take apart and reassemble; it's a...
...way of telling your offspring that even changing the batteries is something you have to leave to the professionals...
Splitting a long method into sub methods is easier in instances since it is in classes. Since you must not save state in a class, you need...
...a long chain of parameters again and again. If your public API has a single entry point, you can still have a class-level method that takes care of constructing...
YARD 0.6 adds the ability to serve documentation for gems as well as the current project with yard server. Just like gem server in RubyGems, you can serve gem docs...
...The advantage to YARD’s server is that you don’t need to pre-generate the static docs (with a gem install) before running the server. If you installed your...
...is a method Hash#to_query that will turn a Hash into a query string: >> {:a => "a", :b => ["c", "d", "e"]}.to_query => "a=a&b%5B%5D=c&b...
...a=a&b[]=c&b[]=d&b[]=e" If you're on the browser side, you can serialize nestd objects to query strings using jQuery's $.param...
Quick introduction to git internals for people who are not scared by words like Directed Acyclic Graph. The linked page offers a simple yet concise explanation of how git is...
...a directed acyclic graph with post-it notes'). Each feature is illustrated by a simple diagram, so you get a sound understanding of how each command affects git's structure...
A lot of the advice involves less separations of concerns in your code ("don't use $watch", "don't use isolated scopes"), but it's a nice summary of what...
...the purpose of this article "large" mostly mean "large number of watchers/bindings on a single screen". Angular doesn't automatically become large just because you have a lot of screens...
Fixed bugs where calling valid? would change the record's state...
In case you're wondering, when concat-ing server certificate and intermediate certificates, the server certificate comes first. RFC 4346: certificate_list This is a sequence (chain) of X.509v3 certificates...
certificate must come first in the list. Each following certificate must directly certify the one preceding it...
...probably one of the most dramatic reimaginations of the desktop user interface I’ve seen in a long time. This concept proposes a multitouch interaction system that does not require...
...a multitouch screen (and thus does not have to deal with all the problems such a screen causes), but instead uses a multitouch area near the keyboard...