Choosing the right backend technology for your API can make or break your project. Two of the most popular options today are .NET (ASP.NET Core) and Node.js. But which one is better? The truth: There’s no universal winner — it depends on your team, performance needs,...
If you download a Visual Studio project as a .zip file, it might get flagged as blocked because it came from an internet zone. Some applications, such as Visual Studio, will mark this as an untrusted document. You will get a similar error to the following in Visual...
The Public Desktop in Windows is hidden by default. This desktop is the best place to install shortcuts for sharing with multiple users on a computer. To unhide this folder, follow the steps below: Login to the computer as the administrator user. Browse with...
The preferred way to to update GhostScript is through the Windows installer, but this occasional fails if files are open which will lock its folder and prevent changes. You can shut down all running instances or reboot the computer and then update. Or you can run the...
When a website is redirected to another site, it may be necessary to redirect the home site to a local page instead of the new URL. This can be to show redirect information or just show a logo on the old web site. The redirect info can be written in the .htaccess file...
Steps to fix text pixelation: Open Google Chrome and click the 3 horizontal dots in the upper right corner. Select Settings. Select System. Turn off the option for Use hardware acceleration when available. Restart the web browser (a quick way to do this is type...
A recovery email on your iCloud account is necessary in case you forget your password and need to get back into your Apple device. I recently talked to the tech support in a cell phone provider to try to restore a phone that was accidentally reset to its factory...
A quick way to get your IP. You can find the IP of the device (computer, phone, etc) your using by doing a simple google search. Open the google site, and enter what is my ip address. The search results will have your current IP as the first item.
If you get a “..package did not load correctly” error in Microsoft Visual Studio, this can be easily fixed with through the command prompt. Close all running instances of Visual Studio. Run the following from the command line with administrative rights:...
A great way to start a Monday morning is to find all of the text in Microsoft Edge to be pixelated. Here is how you can fix this. Steps to fix text pixelation: Start Microsoft Edge and click the 3 horizontal dots in the upper right corner. Select Settings. Select...
As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn’t as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging had to be discovered. I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs.
