If you're sick of manually updating your Windows programs it turns out that there's a package manager that can automate it all for you: https://chocolatey.org - and best of all, it comes with silent installations! No more "next, next, finish". By default...
Sometimes it's the little things that make a developer's life just that bit easier. Like this handy little Visual Studio Code plugin that will colorize your brackets to help make it easier to see what's contained within them! https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=...
I've had a little downtown this week so I thought it would be a good idea to get around to adding a privacy policy and a cookie consent option to my blog. This blog uses the Orchard CMS so I was looking for a module that would handle...
Here is a little code snippet to help you validate a value to ensure it's a YouTube url using JavaScript. This regex here will ensure that the url supplied matches the criteria of a valid youtube url: * This is that it is from www.youtube.com or youtu....
If you're allowing customers to save YouTube videos on your site and you'd like to extract out the video id when storing into your database you could try using either of these options below. The thing to remember is that the YouTube url can be either:...
Now that Google Chrome 68 is out, there is more of a focus on unsecured websites than ever before. Rather than highlight when a website is secure with a SSL cert, Google is taking the opposite approach and going off the basis that every site should have a SSL cert...
I use Evernote every day in work. I'd be lost without it. The ability to quickly search for answers for my day to day tasks or to write down some development ideas for later use makes it one of my daily 'go to' tools. There are...
We use MS Teams in work and after using it for close to 12 months it really has won us over from Skype. It did take a little bit to get used to the idea of 'conversation threads' and not just random chats but once you get used...
If you're using Chrome to develop locally over https but your site cert is invalid you might have come across an issue where Chrome will block access to your website. UIsually you can click on the 'Process to site' link that Chrome gives you but if...