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amsul.ca

The mobile-friendly, responsive, and lightweight jQuery date & time input picker. Does not depend on jQuery UI, but currently does...

Ruby publishes security issues and MRI updates on ruby-lang.org. Unfortunately there is no straight-forward way to subscribe to these...

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github.com

Rack::Attack is a rack middleware to protect your web app from bad clients. It allows whitelisting, blacklisting, throttling, and...

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github.com

FastClick is a simple, easy-to-use library for eliminating the 300ms delay between a physical tap and the firing...

If you get a Quota error with OpenStack, it doesn't have to be what it tell. For example, I...

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bradfrostweb.com

A clever way to have inline labels ("placeholders") that don't disappear when the user enters text.

Sometimes you need to monitor a connection from your machine to a specific, single host or network in order to...

Use protocol independent URLs whenever possible so that the browser will choose the protocol related to the protocol which the...

When I upgraded from 0.5.4 PDFKit deadlocked or crashed when an ApplicationController::RouteError occured. If this error happens only because...

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...

jetmore.org

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

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fontcombiner.com

Font Combiner offers a way to tweak and adjust any TTF or OTF font (license permitting), by bringing in font...

swapoff.org

I am using git at several places: at work, at university, and at home. I want an own git user/email...

dev.mysql.com

Usually our mysql queries are not case sensitive. In order to query case sensitive, you can use the mysql COLLATE...

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ablogaboutcode.com

After reading, you will know why and how runners.each(&:run) works. Here some tidbits: & can be quite confusing because it...

fontawesome.io

Font Awesome 4 has renamed all icons. What the fuck. Check the attached link for an icon list for the...

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magnus-g.github.io

Awesome Sass plugin to experiment with Subtle Patterns based textures. It automatically removes the base color from the pattern, leaving...

creativebloq.com

I recently created a survey asking fellow designers about the problems they faced when creating fully responsive sites. This article...

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github.com

It's mixins (modules) for Coffeescript classes. Other than most homegrown approaches, this one allows you to keep using super...

Whenever you create a table from a database migration, remember to add updated_at and created_at timestamps to that...

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A snippet of the carrierwave documentation You might come to a situation where you want to retroactively change a version...

Install and configure the AWS Command Line Interface Show existing certificates to test if the AWS Cli is working:

I'm creating certificate requests with this command: openssl req -new -out www.example.com.csr -keyout www.example.com.key -newkey rsa:2048 -nodes

Today I ran into trouble installing therubyracer on Ruby 1.8. The installation failed with *** extconf.rb failed *** Could not create Makefile...