I came across an awesome tool this morning. Priit Haamer has chunked Ruby on Rails, jQuery, and some of YUI documentation into native Mac OS X dictionary binaries. This lets you search those API docs from Spotlight, TextMate, any application that uses the...

Apache comes with a command line utility called "htpasswd". This utility will generate a username and password that you can use to authenticate against using a .htaccess file. Just run the utility like so: htpasswd -c /path/to/your/password/directory/a...

#deprecated (see http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/query_posts#Post_.26_Page_Parameters) Using the "pre_get_posts" filter you can intercept the Wordpress loop and override or set attributes in the "$query" object. This is useful because you c...

While writing software it's common to leave comments for your future self. For instance, if you have written some code but realize that it should be refactored to be more efficient, you may place something along the lines of "TODO: change active record fi...

Thought I'd share a snapshot of this error message from youtube.com. It's nice to know that their monkeys are highly trained. I figured they just got those lazy monkeys who work for bananas. 500 Internal Server Error Sorry, something went wrong. A team o...