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Selection Groups in Rails made less cumbersome

over 2 years ago by Jesper Rønn-Jensen on justaddwater.dk.
I made this addition today after (once again) struggling with option groups for a nested Rails model. My solution: create a new tag for FormOptionsHelper...

2 Must-Know HTML Table Colum Features Any Webdeveloper Should Be Aware Of

over 2 years ago by Jesper Rønn-Jensen on justaddwater.dk.
I was reading up on the good old HTML specification and discovered a feature I had always wanted -- and it's already there: Creating widths of columns that...

CSS Styling Buttons Problem with Underlined Text

over 2 years ago by Jesper Rønn-Jensen on justaddwater.dk.
I ran into the challenge the other day to style a element to make it look like a link (with underline and everything). Unfortunately, the element does...

Greasemonkey Debugging Tips: How to Determine Why your Script Is Not Running

over 2 years ago by Jesper Rønn-Jensen on justaddwater.dk.
After running into some trouble with getting a Greasemonkey to work, I just wanted to share this list with you of things to look out for when your Greasemonkey...

Sell More: Add Next Steps To Your Status Messages

over 2 years ago by Jesper Rønn-Jensen on justaddwater.dk.
Sometimes, when doing web development, we forget that not everybody are as familiar with the web jargon as ourselves. This example from Pixum (internet...

Internal Apps In Firefox

over 2 years ago by Jesper Rønn-Jensen on justaddwater.dk.
This post is probably highly irrelevant unless you work at Capgemini and want to use the internal nordic applications in Firefox. Read on if you want to...

Bash or Ruby for removing multiple Trac Spam Tickets

over 2 years ago by Jesper Rønn-Jensen on justaddwater.dk.
I had to clean up a public Trac ticket db where anonymous tickets are allowed. I had to issue commands like this: trac-admin . ticket remove 58 I keep forgetting...

Print CSS Background Logo Hack

over 2 years ago by Jesper Rønn-Jensen on justaddwater.dk.
I learned this nice little hack to bypass the standard browser setting that normally prevents background images from being printed. The hack makes use...

Spoken Git Commit Log — Another Annoyance at the Office

over 2 years ago by Jesper Rønn-Jensen on justaddwater.dk.
Here is a short one-liner that really annoyed my colleagues today. I set my mac to read aloud all changes in the repository since yesterday: git log --pretty...

Motivation Video: Don’t Give Up if They Let You Down

over 2 years ago by Jesper Rønn-Jensen on justaddwater.dk.
Great motivational video. If you are turned down like the Beatles by the Decca record company, never give up! Video title: “If you’ve never failed...