For the past 6yrs, I've used Orchard CMS to host my personal blog. It's been hosted on Cloudzy.com on a shared instance. Between the Windows Server 2016 hosting, my domain name, and the email hosting it was costing around €250/yr. I didn't...
One feature that I was missing when I initially moved from Visual Studio over to JetBrains Rider was the ability for the current item that I was viewing to auto select in the Solution Explorer menu.
This tip is definitely filled under "Stuff I wish I'd known sooner". In Chrome, when trying to locate where a specific style is located you can simply hold down Ctrl and left click on the style property. This will jump to the exact location of the...
Have you ever tried to view the style of html placeholder in the browser? By default in Chrome this option won't be available to you but if you press F12 to open the Developer Tools and then click on the 3 dots in the top right corner of...
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...
If you're working on a .Net project that has multiple environments chances are that you will be using web.config transforms that tweak environment specific values in your project. Typically in your project you would have a base web.config file that would have all your project settings...