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On a Mac, but you have to test IE6, IE7, IE8, IE9 and IE10? (Poor you!) Luckily there's a one-line fix. 13 Aug 2013 | 05:29 am
Greg Thornton created some scripts that make it super simple. Assuming you have curl installed on you Mac, run this to setup IE virtual machines: curl -s https://raw.github.com/xdissent/ievms/master...
Having trouble with UTF-8? Keep getting invalid multibyte char (US-ASCII) for your ruby code? 7 May 2013 | 04:59 am
Sometimes you've just got to write code like this: text = "”“" But ruby will freak out and errors out like this: invalid multibyte char (US-ASCII) Thanks to the magic of Stack Overflow, I've discov...
TextExt jQuery Plugin is a case study in how to write and document your open source 30 Mar 2013 | 02:34 am
I am so impressed with this simple widget! Hats off to Alex Gorbatchev for making the Internet more awesome. It's super well documented, and has a beautiful site with great demos and examples: http:...
One of my favorite additions to Rails 3 - ActiveRecord::Store - brings sexy back to old unsexy MySQL 24 Jun 2012 | 05:33 pm
One of the least favorite things I hated to do was migrate schema. Luckily Rails 3 has this new semantic called 'store' -- as detailed here. Store gives you a thin wrapper around serialize for the p....
OmniAuth 1.0: How to do Google/Twitter/Facebook login right in Rails (new railscast) 9 Feb 2012 | 11:35 pm
Things are much much much improved from before. Of particular note is how much cleaner the Oauth2 API's are. OmniAuth recently reached version 1.0 and has a number of nice additions. In this episode ...
SSH for Snow Leopard -- don't forget to turn your agent forwarding back on, if you need it 23 Oct 2011 | 12:44 pm
To make a long story short, Snow Leopard ships with key forwarding disabled by default and you will have to modify the file /etc/ssh_config to get it working. Just change the lines # Host * # Forwa...
Trying to install rvm and you're getting an error "usage: dirname path"? Here's the fix 30 Jul 2011 | 09:37 am
So my home directory is on my secondary volume, so it's actually at /Volumes/Secondary HD/Users/me -- unfortunately the RVM install script when you run "bash < <(curl -s https://rvm.beginrescueend.com...
Google's 174 web fonts in one convenient downloadable tarball for your Photoshopping enjoyment 30 Mar 2011 | 01:26 pm
Google’s Font Directory and API for web fonts could have a transformative effect on how we read the web. The only problem is, Google has made it very difficult to download all of the actual font files...
Node.js beginner links 2 Mar 2011 | 03:04 pm
This is the minimal list of links that I think you need to get up and running with node, express, and a fully functioning node site. Node.js homepage This is the beginning. Node.js actually runs your...
Getting Started with MongoDB and Node.js (via @ggoodale) 10 Feb 2011 | 08:58 pm
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