Winget to the rescue

I’m terrible at updating the various applications, frameworks and packages that are installed on my development machines. As such I was pretty excited to discover the Winget application which acts as an npm style package manager for my Windows machine - once installed, run the following to get a list of the applications that have updates available for them:

Read More

Disabling custom NuGet feeds

Scenario - You’re trying to build and/or run a Visual Studio type project and it complains about being unable to access a custom (and for this case unnecessary) NuGet feed, something like:

Read More

Windows PATH priorities

Having scratched my head for a while wondering why my Python 3.7 install was taking precedence over my Python 3.8 one, despite being convinced that 3.8 was taking priority on the PATH, I stumbled across this SO answer containing the following key line:

Read More

Taking Cmd-er

I recently had cause to do some work with Docker and inevitably ended up spending a lot of time at a command prompt. Depending on where I am and what I’m trying to achieve I might fire up I might launch the Windows Command Prompt, PowerShell or even Git Bash and often combinations of them all to help distinguish the task form each other. Sure it works but these days I figured there must be a better way. Then I stumbled across cmder. What is Cmder?

Read More

Accessibility

I’m fairly sure that if I did a survey of the features I use, or indeed am even aware of, for pretty much any piece of them I probably wouldn’t even hit 50%. I tend to fall in to a way of working with each that means I can get what I need by doing the same thing each time. This gets the job done but limits the scope for discovering new and potentially time saving methods.

Read More