This year I decided to try and get back to blogging a bit more in an effort to help track my own progress for things that I've learned throughout the year and also as a way to help others out. To help me focus on writing on a...
Right after I install Visual Studio, my next port of call is to update VS to automatically highlight the current file I'm working on in the Solution Explorer. This can be handy if you need to quick find the file you're working on to figure out...
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...