A blog about curiosity being a good habit
Simple fix for the GitHub Desktop application opening, but the window appearing off screen. I tried ALT+M to move, etc, without any luck. The easiest way I found: Close the app and go to: %APPDATA%\GitHub Desktop\ Delete window-state.json Restart. That’s it.
Open CMD as Administrator: Export AppPools All %windir%\system32\inetsrv\appcmd list apppool /config /xml > c:\apppools.xml Single %windir%\system32\inetsrv\appcmd list apppool “MyAppPool” /config /xml > c:\myapppool.xml Export Sites %windir%\system32\inetsrv\appcmd list site /config /xml > c:\sites.xml or in txt format (not very useful) %windir%\system32\inetsrv\appcmd list site > c:\sites.txt
There are a few tips and tricks I found for this installation. Here are the details. Check Windows Version First, here’s the entire Microsoft section on WSL. I highly recommend reading through it. There are various differences between the latest Windows 10 updates, so this might not work for your version! I’m on Windows 10… Continue reading How to install Apache and PHP 7.2 on Windows Subsystem for Linux
PHP Manager is a useful tool for configuring PHP in IIS. It is no longer supported, however, and a Registry trick is required to install it. Overview PHP Manager allows you to configure multiple versions of PHP for multiple VHosts on an IIS server. While it adds some overhead to the configuration, it can be… Continue reading How to install PHP Manager in IIS 10 or higher
The most interesting part about this is how much Microsoft wants to become the de facto web dev environment that Mac currently rules and this little change speaks to that. Here’s the MSDN blog describing the changes. In addition, however, is the Windows Subsystem for Linux. What MS has done is allow a “native” version… Continue reading Microsoft updates Notepad to cover more ground in the Mac dev war!
Windows Subsystem for Linux has started to make Windows into an actual development platform! It’s not there yet, but it is getting there. Although I really appreciate how *nix and Macs have created the majority of dev workflows, I am excited to be able to use an upgradable $500 Windows 10 laptop instead of a… Continue reading How to reset Ubuntu login Microsoft WSL
Notepad++ is a terrific, free alternative to NotePad and it is multipurpose. I love the tabbed interface and, especially, not having to save every tab on close. What you can’t do in Search in Files is easily filter out file extensions to search (well, actually, there’s a good chance you can create your own function… Continue reading Find all file extensions in a folder on Windows 10 using PowerShell
Some pretty important stuff to consider best practice in today’s world: As a reminder, speed is a critical metric for SEO these days. https://developers.google.com/speed/docs/insights/rules Here’s the page speed tool: https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/ Example: https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.processio.com%2F Kinda cool that it will minify a bunch of files (including images) that you can download.
I was having issues with installing Laravel Homestead on my Windows 10 (and Windows 8) laptop: I installed Vagrant and VirtualBox, rebooted, and was then following these instructions. Note: you should have Git already installed and use Git Bash for running these commands, not Windows CMD, although I started with CMD. I ran this: C:\Users\Data>vagrant… Continue reading Problem Installing Laravel Homestead on Windows 8 & 10
You used to be able to click on the lock item and view the certificate details. This has been replaced with site specific information about local access to features such as cookies, location access, etc. You must now hit F12 for Developer Tools, then click the Security tab.