Firefox 5.0.1, which we were using for most Rails 2.3 projects, does not run on Ubuntu 14.04 any more. Here...
tlmgr is the TeX Live Manager and responsible for the TeX installation on your (Linux) machine. If you're getting...
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...
You select some characters, make them bold and suddenly your entire document is bold? Here's how to fix that...
Browsers make this very hard. Even when you explicitely set the selection inside the textarea (e. g. using jquery-fieldselection...
If you have this problem when you update your FreeBSD Ports: ===>>> Launching child to update ruby19-iconv-1.9.3.547,1 to...
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...
Simply use one(...) instead of on(...). It takes the same arguments.
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...
Create beautiful Javascript charts with one line of Ruby. Promising chart library for easily rendering charts with Google Charts.