Rubber Duck Debugging
Talk to the Duck
When confronted with a problem, don’t ask the person next to you for help right away, he’s probably doing something important as well!
Instead, first tell the duck about it – out loud. If you don’t get to a solution, start explaining your problem in more and more detail until it hits you. If the mere explanation led to a solution, you avoid unwillingly turning your colleague into a CardboardProgrammer.
Create a new blog post
This is something for me (or anyone else really) because I keep forgetting all this stuff.
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Debugging in Visual Studio
Basic Shortcuts
Git Assume Unchanged
Ideally one would create a new gitignored file to configure an application to fit his local development environment but when you do have to revert to modifying a committed configuration file, at least there is “git assume unchanged” to avoid committing your changes in these files accidentally.
Assume Unchanged
# Git assume a file
git update-index --assume-unchanged fileName
# And unassume with
git update-index --no-assume-unchanged fileName
Autohotkey DynaRun
Run any Autohotkey script on the web with a single.. Autohotkey hotkey.
Autohotkey Use Case: Submitting a Form
A simple Autohotkey use case you can start using in your application right away:
Filling in an entire form with predefined values.
Angular Road Trip
Today I want to blog about my Angular(2 – 6) experiences the past years.
After 3 years of desktop development I’ve started with Angular 2+ in july 2016, when it was still in beta.
Back then
Back then the landscape was a lot more difficult than it is today.
Advanced Windows Explorer
A listing of handy but less known shortcuts in Windows Explorer and some Autohotkey examples on how to add extra functionality.
Open Windows Explorer, the most direct way:
