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SkillShare - Get a Free Premium Membership for 2 months A free-to-use subscription link that can be used to get a 2-months Free Premium Membership on the SkillShare e-learning platform

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Have you ever heard of SkillShare? It's an online, subscription-based e-learning community platform launched on November 2010 by Michael Karnjanaprakorn and Malcolm Ong and specifically aimed to host educational videos. …

SkillShare - Get a Free Premium Membership for 2 months A free-to-use subscription link that can be used to get a 2-months Free Premium Membership on the SkillShare e-learning platform Read More
Coding / PHP / SEO & Marketing / Web

WordPress: redirect single-result archive pages to the actual post A function.php code snippet to seamlessly redirect category and/or tag pages containing only one post to the post page itself

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If you've stumbled upon this post it most likely means that you're running a WordPress blog with a lot of archive pages (categories and/or tags) containing a single post. Archive …

WordPress: redirect single-result archive pages to the actual post A function.php code snippet to seamlessly redirect category and/or tag pages containing only one post to the post page itself Read More
ASP.NET / C# / Coding

MergeTIFF - Free tool to merge multiple TIFF files into one A lightweight, open-source .NET Core console application to merge multiple TIFF files in a single multi-page TIFF file - source code available on GitHub

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In this post, we'll talk about MergeTIFF, a lightweight .NET Core console application that merges multiple TIFF files (including multi-page ones) into a single multi-page TIFF file. The full source …

MergeTIFF - Free tool to merge multiple TIFF files into one A lightweight, open-source .NET Core console application to merge multiple TIFF files in a single multi-page TIFF file - source code available on GitHub Read More
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.NET Core 2 - Change Kestrel default port TCP 5000 (win and linux) How to change default Kestrel listening port (TCP 5000) in a ASP.NET Core 2 Web Application on a Windows or Linux web server

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If you stumbled upon this post, you're most likely trying to install an additional ASP.NET Core 2 Web Application on a Windows or Linux web server using our setup guide …

.NET Core 2 - Change Kestrel default port TCP 5000 (win and linux) How to change default Kestrel listening port (TCP 5000) in a ASP.NET Core 2 Web Application on a Windows or Linux web server Read More
Applications / Software / Windows

Outlook crash on startup (OUTLMIME.DLL): how to fix How to deal with the "Microsoft Outlook has stopped working" issue that occurs during startup in case of IMAP e-mail account(s) and OUTLMIME.DLL error in the Windows Event Viewer

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In this post, we'll address a common issue occurring with most versions of MS Outlook with one or more IMAP accounts configured locally (IMAP is an acronym for Internet Message …

Outlook crash on startup (OUTLMIME.DLL): how to fix How to deal with the "Microsoft Outlook has stopped working" issue that occurs during startup in case of IMAP e-mail account(s) and OUTLMIME.DLL error in the Windows Event Viewer Read More
Android / Cloud / Coding / iOS / JavaScript / Servers & Services / Web

React Native with Push Notifications and Firebase - Part 2 of 5 How to create, setup and configure a React Native project with Push Notifications support using Firebase SDK and API - Part 2 of 5: Setup React Native and Firebase

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In this five-part tutorial we'll see how we can create a sample React Native app (you might call it a "Hello World" or "boilerplate") that will be capable of receiving …

React Native with Push Notifications and Firebase - Part 2 of 5 How to create, setup and configure a React Native project with Push Notifications support using Firebase SDK and API - Part 2 of 5: Setup React Native and Firebase Read More
Android / Cloud / Coding / iOS / JavaScript / Servers & Services / Web

React Native with Push Notifications and Firebase - Part 1 of 5 How to create, setup and configure a React Native project with Push Notifications support using Firebase SDK and API - Part 1 of 5: Understanding Push Notifications

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In this five-part tutorial we'll see how we can create a sample React Native app (you might call it a "Hello World" or "boilerplate") that will be capable of receiving …

React Native with Push Notifications and Firebase - Part 1 of 5 How to create, setup and configure a React Native project with Push Notifications support using Firebase SDK and API - Part 1 of 5: Understanding Push Notifications Read More
ASP.NET / C# / Coding / Design / Windows

Visual Studio - parameter instance with value null (and other design errors) when opening XSD files How to fix the "Value cannot be null. Parameter name: instance" error when opening XSD files in design mode with Visual Studio 2017 or 2019

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If you've stumbled upon this post it most likely means you're having issues while trying to open XSD files from Visual Studio 2017 or 2019. More specifically, this problem often …

Visual Studio - parameter instance with value null (and other design errors) when opening XSD files How to fix the "Value cannot be null. Parameter name: instance" error when opening XSD files in design mode with Visual Studio 2017 or 2019 Read More
Coding / JavaScript / Tools & Utilities

YARN vs NPM (vs pnpm) in 2019: comparison and verdict A comparative analysis of the most used package managers for JavaScript and Node.js and what to use in 2019

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In this article I'll talk about Yarn and NPM, arguably the most popular JavaScript package managers available as of today, with the precise intent of compare their respective features and …

YARN vs NPM (vs pnpm) in 2019: comparison and verdict A comparative analysis of the most used package managers for JavaScript and Node.js and what to use in 2019 Read More
Coding / SQL

SQL Server - How to ALTER one or more Table Columns avoiding a Command Timeout in T-SQL How to change the type and/or the format of one or more SQL Server Table Columns with an ALTER query avoiding command timeout and without restarting the Database

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If you've stumbled upon this post it most likely means that you need to change the type and/or format of one or more table column of a SQL Server using …

SQL Server - How to ALTER one or more Table Columns avoiding a Command Timeout in T-SQL How to change the type and/or the format of one or more SQL Server Table Columns with an ALTER query avoiding command timeout and without restarting the Database Read More