Use Open Command Line extension with Windows TerminalMads Kristensen’s Open Command Line Visual Studio extension is great. It allows you to quickly open a terminal at either the selected file…
AWS Lambda Functions for Dotnet Core 3.1 using a custom runtimeAWS only support the LTS versions of dotnet core. At the time of writing the latest LTS version is 3.1. AWS, however, have not yet…
SSH keys on Windows 10Enable the SSH server in Windows You need to add the optional feature ‘OpenSSH Server’ in Windows 10 first by going to -> search for…
Finding the executable path for a Windows 10 Store AppI recently starting to play around with AutoHotkey to map some of my everyday programs to new shortkeys. I came unstuck however when I…
ChocolateyChocolatey is a windows package manager meaning software can be installed through shell commands. This enables software to be installed…
Lightshot failed to register short key on Windows 10Lightshot is a wonderful little utility that enables easy selective screenshots and quick annotations. However sometimes the Lightshot…
Run Windows 10 apps on startupWhen Windows boots there might be certain apps that you always open without fail. Why not reduce those pesky mouse clicks and let Windows…
Ensure HTTPS and wwwWhen sites are in production you’ll want it to use HTTPS. To redirect HTTP traffic you can use rewrite rules in the web.config. If the site…
Removing PowerShell Module: Posh GitA while back I installed Posh Git, a module for PowerShell that incorporates some git information into the shell if you’re within a git…
Using Umbraco Models Builder API in Visual StudioIf you’re working with an Umbraco site using Visual Studio you will more than likely benefit from using the API version of Umbraco’s Model…
Hack in a new EpiServer user so you can log inRecently our team needed to access the EpiServer admin panel but we didn’t have a valid username / password. With the help of Jon B Jones’s…
Visual Studio 2017 ExtensionsAs part of my push to ‘work smarter, not harder’, here is my list of Visual Studio 2017 extensions in no particular order. I will…
Chrome Extensions 2018I’ve recently been thinking how I can ‘work smarter, not harder’ and an obvious optimisation is documentation. At work, our team and I are…
Deploy a multi project solution from GitHub with Azure DeploymentsAzure has a nice, simple way to set up a Deployment Option that monitors our GitHub repository and deploys our code when we push commits to…
Everyday git commandsThe vast majority of the projects I work with use Git as their source control. I predominantly use a Git UI tool for most of my daily Git…
It's probably time to take a breakAfter a couple of years in the industry you realise that you will burnout if you carry on working hell for leather, all year round, year…
JQuery Validate with dynamically generated formsRecently I was working on a project that required validating forms client side that were served via an ajax call to the server. The UI…
To blog or not to blogI’ve always appreciated the effort others have made to maintain their blogs, happily consuming them for my benefit. However, I’d always…