virtualbox
The Problem You have got a dynamically sized, VDI virtual hard drive in VirtualBox and would like to convert it into a fixed size hard drive. You are using Windows. The Solution * Locate VBoxManage.exe on your machine. It should be in the VirtualBox program directory (usually found under C:
Audacity is a powerful and free tool to edit all kinds of audio files. However, the many features it offers can be overwhelming for beginners and more advanced users alike. This guide contains some tips how to go about doing a very specific task with audacity: Improving the quality of
psychology
It might be that our subconscious mind ears often in our urban and large-scale world. It might be that reason and traditional intelligence are the most useful devices to navigate this world. I'm reading ‘Thinking Fast and Slow’ from Kahneman at the moment and what I've
isaacson
There is something wrong with the way Steve Jobs led people. The biography from Isaacson is full of examples how Steve Jobs exercised excessive control, restricting the autonomy of talented employees, or outright abused employees in an inhumane way. Research suggests that people work better if they are not driven
productivity
When it comes to organizing our lives, structured and logical approaches are in no short supply. Divide large projects into small tasks. Prioritize what is more important over what is less so. Identify the critical path of tasks leading most surely to success. All these are activities of the conscious
Problem You would like to know the exact pixel position and size of a window in Microsoft Windows. Solution Use the very useful utility Sizer. You can download it for free from the page below: http://www.brianapps.net/sizer/ I downloaded the portable version (download the Zip Package). Launch
Problem You have an array in CoffeeScript, which contains equal elements multiple times such as: [1,1,2,3,3] You would like to have only unique values in the array. Thus, transform it into: [1,2,3] Solution You can use the following method to accomplish such: removeDuplicates = (ar)
gwt
GWT RPC is built upon AJAX requests and thus is subject to the Same-Origin Policy. However, it is really easy in GWT (as well as in other JavaScript applications) to circumvent this policy using a method called JSON-with-padding (JSONP). Unfortunately, there are a couple of issues one needs to consider
bootstrap
Problem Using the very useful Summernote Editor component for Bootstrap, you would like to insert some text at the current caret position programmatically. Solution The Summernote API does not provide any dedicated methods for inserting text. However, that's not a problem since we can use the JQuery/native
Anyone who has worked with JavaScript for anything but a very short time will have come across the problem that the meaning of 'this' is often ambiguous at best. CoffeeScript attempts to mitigate this problem somewhat by introducing the Fat Arrow operator (=>). This operator can be used
Problem You would like to include HTML code as a String in a JavaScript file. Solution Firstly, load the HTML code into a JavaScript variable (e.g. by using jQuery.ajax()). $.ajax({url: 'http://mydomain.com/htmlfile.html'}) .done(function(html) { Then apply the following two simple regular
daniel-coyle
I found the following wonderful quote in Daniel Goleman's Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence via Brain Pickings: Amateurs are content at some point to let their efforts become bottom-up operations. After about fifty hours of training — whether in skiing or driving — people get to that “good-enough” performance
