FastClick is a simple, easy-to-use library for eliminating the 300ms delay between a physical tap and the firing...
Sometimes you need to monitor a connection from your machine to a specific, single host or network in order to...
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS x64, Ruby 1.8.7, Rails 2.13, PDFKit 0.5.4, Phusion Passenger Apache 2 I ran into this, when I...
swaks is a very nice tool to test SMTP. For the most linux distributions you can easily install it with...
Usually our mysql queries are not case sensitive. In order to query case sensitive, you can use the mysql COLLATE...
After reading, you will know why and how runners.each(&:run) works. Here some tidbits: & can be quite confusing because it...
Font Awesome 4 has renamed all icons. What the fuck. Check the attached link for an icon list for the...
Weighttp is threaded and might exhaust resources of an application better than ApacheBench or httperf. You need libev installed.
I recently created a survey asking fellow designers about the problems they faced when creating fully responsive sites. This article...
Whenever you create a table from a database migration, remember to add updated_at and created_at timestamps to that...
Today I ran into trouble installing therubyracer on Ruby 1.8. The installation failed with *** extconf.rb failed *** Could not create Makefile...
Search engines, such as Google and Bing are engineered to crawl static web pages, not javascript-heavy, client-side apps...
If you need to enable NewRelic monitoring on certain machines within the same Rails environment, a simple solution is to...
Ubuntu has a package mysql-sandbox that lets you install multiple MySQL versions into your user home: Install mysql-sandbox...
Rails has always included a scaffold script that generates a default controller implementation for you. Unfortunately that generated controller is...
You're better off using debugger-ruby_core_source: gem install debugger-ruby_core_source If you can't do...
It is good programming practice to Don't Repeat Yourself (or DRY). In Ruby on Rails we keep our code...
So you client has asked you to implement a row of buttons to like the URL on Facebook, Twitter and...
You might not know that Rails disables CSRF protection in tests. This means that if you accidentally forget to send...
There may be reasons to change the locale of your Postgres cluster. A popular one is your development system's...
Presentation about awesome changes we can look forward to.
Responsive elements makes it possible for any element to adapt and respond to the area they occupy. This is different...
Awesome slide deck about taking liberties with design requirements in order to keep the CSS simple.