Most of the time when you want to take a screenshot you probably use the Snipping Tool built into Windows or another third party program like Greenshot but did you know that if you're using Windows 10 (creators edition or greater) you can take a screenshot by simply...
Welcome to another Web Developer Monthly. This month's edition contains news about Visual Studio 2019, really cool Goolge performance tools, jaw dropping CodePens and more. If you've spotted anything you'd like me to share for the next Web Developer Monthly let me know in...
In most databases today there are columns that contain thousands of characters of text. In some cases this information needs to be returned to an end user on a busy section of your site, for example a search feature. If someone does a search on your site usually you will...
If you're using Visual Studio Code and want to share a screenshot of what you're working on I highly recommend using Polacode. It can be a little tricky following the steps from the official gif (as seen above) but essentially you just do the following: * Search...
I'll admit that personally I've never had a need in all my professional life to print code from Visual Studio but I know a few devs and project managers that do. I suppose it can be handy when you want to view something offline or hand...
As a developer you've probably become quite familiar with many shortcuts like Ctrl+A, Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V....and unfortunately Ctrl+Z! But did you know that pressing Ctrl+Shift+Esc will directly open the Task Manager? Very handy for when you need to kill that infinite loop...
Image maps are a handy way to add clickable zones to your images. When creating an image map from scratch most people would fire up their image editor of choice and work out the click zones using the editor. This can be ok when creating an image map from scratch...
I noticed recently that my current version of Chrome was acting strange in Windows 10. When loading web pages with a lot of content I noticed that random text or images would be missing, jumbled up or I'd see green flashes on screen where animations should be happening....
There are tons of programs out there that can help you make gifs but over the years the one I keep returning to due to its ease of use is LICEcap. For example, I use it to help me make gif's for this blog, for doing quick screen...