If you’re a bit like me, you like to keep your desk clear. The same goes for all those pesky git branches you accumulate over time. Whether you are using Visual Studio, VSCode, or some other editor, it would be nice if you could burn it all down except for trunk. The good news is, […]
This is a pretty neat feature coming to Microsoft Edge. You hit CTRL + SHIFT + W and it brings up a little rectangle that you can position over some content you want to copy. If you’ve ever fought with a browser when trying to select text, but missed something like the first character – […]
Although you have to join a waitlist, there is a technical preview of GitHub Copilot integrated as a Visual Studio extension. Copilot is an AI pair programming tool that suggests code based on a colossal training set of open source code. It can suggest line completions and entire functions as you type, and it seems […]
Despite coding and writing in Visual Studio Code, the set-ups for these two activities are quite different. I’m using this post to track my writing-mode set-up and I expect to revisit it later. Although the work is very different to programming, the writing workflow used by my team is not unlike a typical software team’s […]
Everything is becoming a subscription these days. The combination of convenient smaller regular payments for customers, and a recurring revenue-base for the provider means this model feels like the magic formula all around. Whether it’s kitchen appliances from AO, razors from Harry’s, food from Hello Fresh, or a car from Cazoo – you can enjoy […]
I needed to grab a report that listed all hyperlinks on a web page, so I wrote a browser extension to do it for me. Get LinkReporter in the Edge store. Grab LinkReporter in the Chrome Store. How to use Link Reporter Once you’ve installed the extension: Open any web page that you want to […]
Last month, some eagle-eyed folk spotted a change in the C# 11 pipeline. This triggered a fair bit of discussion about the new feature. In this post I’ll dig a bit into the decision and explain a bit more about the feature. What is parameter null checking? Let’s start by looking at the feature. For […]
I’m running an IIS site with ARR as a load balancer. It’s pretty common to want to take a server out of balance or to put it back in using a script. The below script takes the first server out of balance by setting enabled = $false. The other servers are left in. You could […]
Application Request Routing (ARR) is a feature in IIS that allows you to set up a web farm and load balance the requests. ARR sits within IIS Manager and provides load balancing, caching, and health monitoring features. In this article, a single-server web app will be updated to run on two web servers with an […]
There are still some lessons from the fable of boiling a frog. I hardly dare repeat it, but the idea is that if you put a frog in boiling water, it will jump out. However, if you put it in cool water and gradually raise the temperature, the frog will not realise the danger and […]