To check the battery level of your wireless Xbox One Controller is not that trivial on a Windows 10 PC. You might think that Microsoft gives you a working solution out of the box but I was spending quite a lot of time finding out what is the right way to do it. It turns out […]
Gradle problems and Design view is broken in android studio 3.0.1 Currently, I am learning the Google: Associate Android Developer (AAD) path on Pluralsight by Jim Wilson.In the third course: Enhancing the Android Application Experience I had to update the app Gradle file to give support for the appcompat library. A side note: The course […]
As I had to add a copyright notice to my WordPress website I wondered how should I automate it in a way that I never have to worry about again. It is a really simple task, but still, since I was going to add it as an html widget I didn’t want to break the […]
This post is one of the ASP.NET MVC 5 Custom Routes series. The problem You can usually identify this problem when you are creating a lot of custom routes for each one of your empty controller actions. If you follow this antipattern you will end up with an endless RouteConfig.cs , that will point to […]
How do you handle your routing in your web application? Do you use all the time the default routing rule? routes.MapRoute( name: “Default”, url: “{controller}/{action}/{id}”, defaults: new { controller = “Home”, action = “Index”, id = UrlParameter.Optional } ); Or do you write your own rules for custom functionality when you want something different for […]
Today I just made a mistake to create a library as a .NETCoreApp1.1 Class Library while I really meant to create a .NetStandard Class Library. It is not a big deal if you realise this before you would start to write a lot of code in it, because you can just delete it and recreate […]
Today I just faced a situation where I have got a huge XSD library to use for service integration. Because I suspected it won’t be a small task to write by myself and honestly I never had to do this before I started to look for an automated solution. Being a lazy programmer and having […]
I had a “small” issue for a week when I reinstalled my old windows 7 laptop. It was all ok, except it did not want to install updates. Nor skype or similar things. At first, I got errors in the c++ redistribution library. (Here is the solution, to install it follow the steps from below.) […]
To use Google’s DistanceMatrix API and do some calculations with JavaScript is easy. Try the same with C#! Nice, quick, and dirty. Start with JavaScript I was (and I am still) playing with a code that can do some math based on a distance between 2 locations. Because Google supports JavaScript it is really easy […]