I recently made the decision to purchase a MacBook Pro and with that comes Mac OS X. As a long-term Windows user that still is quite the change. I'm one of the people who never close applications and thus have tons of windows open. In Windows 7 or later this …

Currently, I'm working on a project which relies a lot on its notifications. So far, the logic was fairly simple: display the notification if there is already a notification, replace the previous one The code for that logic is to use the same ID when creating the notification: // constant notification …

In the last few sprints in our eat foody project we focused on improving the design. Especially on the Android app we had a lot of potential to take the design to a higher level. After we added a custom font (Source Sans Pro), gave the buttons and the actionbar …

There are some fancy replacement icons for your applications available on dribbble. Sometimes you're bored of the ones originally shipped with the specific app. And eventually you find the app icon you want to use and don't know how to set it. Here's how you go and this short guide …

When using the desktop version of Ubuntu you'll eventually get or probably have the problem that apt-get update throws a lot "Failed to fetch 404 Not Found" errors. Additionally, you may have the same problem when running apt-get install. Don't worry, it will be fixed in a minute. {{outline}} The …

The nicest things are details. It's all about details, always. We were looking for nice effects to remove the break when loading recipe pictures for eatfoody and came across dominant picture colors. Concretely, the dominant picture color is the color that describes the given picture best in one color code. …

Update 19th Sept 2014: We added a reference to the GitLab Omnibus Readme as additional resources at the bottom of this post. This post describes how to configure a running GitLab instance with a (self-signed) SSL certificate. The following steps assume you already have a running instance of GitLab available. …

This error is strange, because it appears when you're trying to install a new package globally with NPM, npm install -g <package-name>. The output of this command is something like this: npm ERR! peerinvalid The package grunt does not satisfy its siblings' peerDependencies requirements! npm ERR! peerinvalid Peer …