Your development machine is usually on a very good network connection. To test how your application behaves on a slow...

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redisdesktop.com

"Redis Desktop Manager (aka RDM)— is a cross-platform open source Redis DB management tool (i.e. Admin GUI). Redis Desktop...

I had a huge MySQL dump that took forever (as in: days) to import, while I actually just wanted to...

jetmore.org

swaks is a very nice tool to test SMTP. For the most linux distributions you can easily install it with...

github.com

Weighttp is threaded and might exhaust resources of an application better than ApacheBench or httperf. You need libev installed.

If you need to test interaction with a remote API, check out the VCR gem as an alternative to Webmock...

developers.google.com

The Google Chrome DevTools allow you to inspect, debug, and analyze the on-device experience with the full suite of...

makandra dev

git shortlog -s -n [commit-range] -n, --numbered Sort output according to the number of commits per author

Option 1: Creating a self-signed certificate with the openssl binary As igalic commented on this gist. openssl req -new...

highscalability.com

Awesome battle report from Pinterest trying to scale their setup using different approaches. When you push something to the limit...

thejh.net

What you copy may not be what you see in the browser. Here is an online tool to determine the...

robots.thoughtbot.com

Guide how to make fixes in other people's GitHub repositories. It's basically "Open Source Development 101".

In our continued quest to extract proven code snippets from makandropedia into tested and upgradable gems, we have released Edge...

Do not investigate in the 2342 tools that exist for migrating IMAP accounts from one server to another. They all...

validates_uniqueness_of is not sufficient to ensure the uniqueness of a value. The reason for this is that in...

Apache HTTP server benchmarking tool (ab) is a nice tool to test performance on sites delivered by HTTP. If the...

josh.github.io

li.active a:link Example output (specificity): | 0 | 2 | 2 | See also: https://www.codecaptain.io/tools/css-specificity-calculator

When you want to copy/move from a shared folder (on Windows guests, for example) and it fails with absurd error...

When you are trying to install/update VirtualBox Guest Additions on your guest machine but the setup is for a different/older...

If you don't want to mess around with arcane incantations inside xorg.conf, you can use the graphical arandr tool...

If you have a PNG and want to know a pixel's alpha channel value, you can use Gimp:

Unlike in Gnome, there is no graphical tool to set a mouse cursor in Xfce. Run this on a terminal...

perlstalker.vuser.org

While you can set your own font in your terminal or other tools, it will not change the default "Monospace...

developer.mozilla.org

Having your site run on SSL is worthless when you include content over an unsafe connection (HTTP).