Popup when leaving website
On my current project, we had a requirement to pop up a message to the user when they leave our site (e.g., close the browser window). We discovered a number...
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Remove files that are not in subversion
One of the great features of version control is that I can easily revert back to a known good state. I can do this in Subversion with the following command:
PostgreSQL allows duplicate nulls in unique columns
It seems strange, but duplicate null values do not violate unique constraints in PostgreSQL.
Command line clipboard access
It is possible to control the clipboard (copy and paste) from the command line in linux and OSX. In linux, the command is xsel, and in OSX, pbcopy/pbpaste.
Zero bug releases
One of the companies I worked for had a rule which dictated zero bugs in each release. Any bug that was found during the formal QA process had to be fixed be...