paulirish

What forces layout / reflow

All of the below properties or methods, when requested/called in JavaScript, will trigger the browser to synchronously calculate the style and layout*. This is also called reflow or layout thrashing, and is common performance bottleneck.

Generally, all APIs that synchronously provide layout metrics will trigger forced reflow / layout. Read on for additional cases and details.

Element APIs

Getting box metrics

• elem.offsetLeft, elem.offsetTop, elem.offsetWidth, elem.offsetHeight, elem.offsetParent

yoavniran

The Ultimate Unit Testing Cheat-sheet

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• Sinon Chai
• Chai
• Sinon

ericelliott

Essential JavaScript Links

I no longer mantain this list. There are lots of other very comprehensive JavaScript link lists out there. Please see those, instead (Google "awesome JavaScript" for a start).

Kartones

PSQL

Magic words:

psql -U postgres

Some interesting flags (to see all, use -h or --help depending on your psql version):

• -E: will describe the underlaying queries of the \ commands (cool for learning!)
• -l: psql will list all databases and then exit (useful if the user you connect with doesn't has a default database, like at AWS RDS)

WebReflection

var typeOf = (function(Object, RegExp){
  // WTFPL License - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTFPL
  // thanks to @jdalton and @ljharb
  var toString = Object.prototype.toString,
      cache = (Object.create || Object)(null);
  return function typeOf(Unknown) {
    var asString = typeof Unknown;
    return asString == 'object' ? (
      Unknown === null ? 'null' : (
        cache[asString = toString.call(Unknown)] || (