One of the first things I do when setting up my Visual Studio environment is to set up pinned tabs so they display on a new line. It helps to visually separate out your tabs and gives your unpinned tabs more screen real estate which can only be a good...
Today's tip is an easy one to use and a very handy tip for quickly opening the command prompt to the location you're currently in on Windows Explorer. All you have to do is type 'cmd' into the Windows Explorer address bar and it...
You know the scenario - you've worked through the night on a project that the boss needs first thing in the morning. It's 3am and you save your work locally on your PC. You decide not to check the work into your GIT repository or to...
Welcome to another Web Developer Monthly. This month's edition contains some awesome JavaScript tips, great CSS tutorials and inspirational CodePens to get your juices flowing. If you've spotted anything you'd like me to share for the next Web Developer Monthly let me know in...
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:...
