If you have issues with PDFs, fix them like this: pdftk .pdf output .pdf Background I had an issue where...
Just install the texlive-xetex package: sudo apt-get install texlive-xetex Running integration tests without texlive-xetex will produce...
In a JavaScript console, type this: > 9112347935156469760 9112347935156470000 Ooops. And that's not a float! This occurs because JavaScript uses...
Browsers make this very hard. Even when you explicitely set the selection inside the textarea (e. g. using jquery-fieldselection...
The asset pipeline changes the paths of CSS files during precompilation. This opens a world of pain when CSS files...
JavaScript's NaN ("Not a Number") is hard to compare against. It never equals anything, not even itself:
Angular-xeditable is a bundle of AngularJS directives that allows you to create editable elements. Such technique is also known...
In addition to the {{ myValue }} two-way binding syntax, since Angular 1.3 there's a one-time binding syntax, prefixing...
Since we are using LoDash instead of UnderscoreJS in recent/current projects, you should keep in mind that their syntax is...
bower-rails is a great solution for managing vendored assets in your Rails app. It feels especially much more convenient...
JavaScript structures that include circular references can't be serialized with a"plain" JSON.stringify. Example: a = { name: 'Groucho' };
A nice bookmarklet to analyze how many watchers have been registered on the current page. Good for keeping an eye...
Creating records in specs can be so fast that two records created instantly after one another might have the same...
Returning an empty scope can come in handy, e.g. as a default object. In Rails 4 you can achieve this...
We upgraded a Rails 2 application to Rails 3.2 and Ruby 2.1, changed the mysql adapter from mysql to mysql2...
This may be hard to find in the docs, but if you want CoffeeScript classes that instantiate their properties from...
This is what worked for me in a Rails 4: # JSON data as first argument, then parameters patch :update, { some...
Modern browsers natively suppport file pickers that allow the user to choose multiple files at once. To activate this feature...
A collection of useful filters for AngularJS, e.g. for fuzzy string searching, displaying numbers as percentages an more.
tl;dr: Use with_index ActiveRecord's find_each with index If you do not provide a block to find...
A different take on what we're doing with ActiveType. Since it lives under the rails organization it might be...
Nice tutorial about packaging Ruby bindings to your API in a Ruby gem, with tests using VCR casettes.
In Thunderbird, you can set custom font faces and sizes for reading plain-text e-mails. However, Thunderbird sometimes "randomly...
If you're using the :header_html option in PDFKit (or the corresponding --header-html option in wkhtmltopdf), and the...