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  • Fix for prettier splitting HTML tags in VSCode

    Fix for prettier splitting HTML tags in VSCode

    ๐ŸŽ‰๐ŸŽ‰๐ŸŽ‰ ng on an Angular application can be a joyous experience, but when prettier starts splitting your HTML tags, it can quickly turn into a nightmare ๐Ÿ˜ฑ. Fear not, for I have found a solution that will have you dancing ๐Ÿ’ƒ in your chair with joy. After trying a few different settings, it turned out…

  • Limiting rotation in Unity easily, using relative direction of game objects

    Limiting rotation in Unity easily, using relative direction of game objects

    I wanted a way that would allow me to limit the gun rotation based on two game objects. That way different guns on the ship could have different limits so that the player couldn’t shot their own ship ๐Ÿ˜† I wanted the limits to be visual, so that they are easy to visualize and adjust.…

  • Updating Plex in a docker container.

    Updating Plex in a docker container.

    There seems to be many conflicting solutions on how to do this, provided you have a running plex docker container, and you used docker-compose to bring it online, here is what you need to do to pull the latest version! docker-compose pull is a command that pulls the latest version of an image from a…

  • Finding the process id (PID) when using Internet Information Services (IIS)

    Finding the process id (PID) when using Internet Information Services (IIS)

    In IIS (Internet Information Services), PID (Process ID) is a unique identifier for the process running the application pool. Here’s how you can find the PID in IIS: Note that the PID may change if the worker process is recycled or restarted. So, it’s recommended to monitor the PID periodically if you need to keep…

  • File Audit with Entity Framework: Retrieve and Check Missing Files with Closest Modification Date

    File Audit with Entity Framework: Retrieve and Check Missing Files with Closest Modification Date

    The FileAudit method is a useful way to retrieve file names from a database table and check if these files exist in a specified directory. With supporting methods like GetParent and GetClosestFile, it provides information about the missing files and the closest file based on the modification date. This article delves into the details of…

  • XPath Cheat Sheet ๐ŸŽฎ

    XPath Cheat Sheet ๐ŸŽฎ

    Hopefully you find these handy! Handy XPath operators Putting it all together๐ŸŒผ Sure, here are a few examples of using XPath with Selenium in C#: Once you have found the element, you can interact with it using various methods such as Click(), SendKeys(), Clear(), GetAttribute(), GetCssValue(), GetText(), and more. For example, to click on an…

  • Star Haulers Game Play

    Finally getting to a point where its possible to play without any major issues!

  • Lenovo y740 brief long term review

    This is a great machine, and great as a desktop replacement! Here is a quick test of it running the NVIDIA reflections demo. As you can see it runs nice and smooth ๐Ÿ˜Ž CPU Specs Essentials CPU Specifications GPU Specs

  • Adding session timeout to ASP.NET MVC 5

    Adding session timeout to ASP.NET MVC 5

    As part of security improvements, we needed to add a session time out in one of our apps. One of the challenges though is that users could be in the middle of submitting their work, go past the timer, then submit, and because their session has expired, they loose their work. Here is how we…

  • MVC 5 Dynamic redirect Uri for external OpenId authentication

    MVC 5 Dynamic redirect Uri for external OpenId authentication

    If you are like me, you dont like having extra configuration in your web transforms. Originally I was setting the redirect uri statically from the web config using However, this means that we need a separate web config when we run locally vs when we run on the server. Also, the redirecturi is static. ๐Ÿ˜ข…