In Greece we are using the US keyboard layout and that means that the tilde key (~) is placed next to number 1 at the top left corner of the key, like the following picture: About a year ago we moved to Luxembourg and my old Macbook died, so I had to replace it with a new one that unfortunately...

Sometimes you may need to run Visual Studio as Administrator; to do so, you have to right-click on Visual Studio task bar shortcut, right-click again on Visual Studio and select Run as Administrator. Then, you may open the solution you want manually from File -> Open -> Project/Solution or drop your .sln file onto Visual Studio. To make ...

A great tool, when starting learning Elixir, is Elixir’s Interactive Shell (IEx), which allows you to type any Elixir expression and get its result. To start using IEx, open a terminal of your choice and type iex (or iex.bat if you are on Windows), which stands for Interactive Elixir. By default, colors are not enabled and iex looks like ...

Sometimes, the response from a request is required first in order to continue with all the other API requests currently stored in your Postman folders. Think of a request that, in order to return results, it requires from you to be authenticated, so a typical workflow would be: authenticate yourself with a proper username and password; get an ...

Sometimes, it is helpful to be able to set a timer to auto shutdown your PC, after a certain amount of time. In Windows 10 you can do that through many ways, but essentially, using the same command. Command Prompt Type shutdown -s -t 300 where 300 is the amount of seconds to wait till the shutdown start (around 5 minutes) Powershell The...

What is it? EditorConfig helps developers define and maintain consistent coding styles between different editors and IDEs. The EditorConfig project consists of a file format for defining coding styles and a collection of text editor plugins that enable editors to read the file format and adhere to defined styles. EditorConfig files are easily ...