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Richard Powell presents a collection of CSS styling advice that's mainly taken from SMACSS. Although at makandra we're...

StaticMatic is a nice tool to build simple static websites. In case you want to have some nifty styles on...

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If a customer calls and tells you that she cannot see some content of her website beware of the following...

Every now and then, Java is subject to security issues where code can break out of Java's sandbox and...

Jedes nicht rein private Profil auf Social Media Portalen muss ein Impressum haben, das heißt insbesondere Unternehmen und Freiberufler (§ 5...

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In Selenium features the server and client are running in separate processes. Therefore, when mocking time with a tool like...

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The usage shares of your site highly depends on your target audience. E.g. no Internet Explorer has ever seen hollyapp.com...

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The Rails community has been abuzz with object-oriented programming, SOLID principles, laws, design patterns, and other principles, practices, and...

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Upgade to LibreOffice 3.5.3+ or disable hardware accelleration in Tools → Options → LibreOffice → View → Graphic output.

You might have notices this behavior when you cut a selection or use the rubber tool. The behavior depends on...

Embedding bitmap images within PDF sometimes results in large files because the bitmaps are not compressed. If you don't...

Geordi, our collection of command line tools, has been extended by another command deploy-to-production. This script encapsulates the...

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How to get a backtrace from a running Ruby process: Ruby 2.6 # First, find out the PID of your Ruby...

The following two hints are taken from Github's Ruby style guide: If your regular expression mentions a lot of...

Capybara has a global option (Capybara.ignore_hidden_elements) that determines whether Capybara sees or ignores hidden elements.

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responsive.is

Online tool to test how a site behaves in popular desktop, tablet and phone resolutions.

If your project manager wants to do gatekeeping on a project, as a developer you need to follow the following...

If you're responsible for gatekeeping in a projects, here is a guide, what to do. In order to reduce...

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You want Photoshop to always open files with "full" (100%) zoom and not try to fit them to your screen...

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SkypeTab-NG (NG stands for Next Generation) is a tool that adds tabs to Skype for Linux. Besides providing a...

If you're using Paperclip to store and convert images attached to your models, processing a lot of images will...

The unix command line tool less is a good choice for browsing logfiles. In the standard configuration, though, it does...

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When internationalizing your Rails app, you'll be replacing strings like 'Please enter your name' with t('.name_prompt'). You...