Justin Walker

WEB DEVELOPER, CAT ENTHUSIAST, FAN OF VINTAGE COCKTAILS, TRAVEL, AND BREAKFAST BURRITOS

Edit JS And CSS Without Rebuild In Visual Studio

I came across an issue when starting a new project in Visual Studio where I would edit a CSS, JS, or razor view file and in order to view the changes in the browser I had to rebuild the entire project. By default Visual Studio should be aware of the change and you should be able to refresh the browser sans-rebuild. It had worked before, but for new projects was an issue.TL;DRWhen developing in ...

Access IIS Localhost From Another Computer

UPDATE 2019-01-26The steps below probably still work, but since then I’ve been using ngrok. Much easier!I regularly need to test a website I’m working on in another browser or on another device, like an iPad or an iPhone. When running an apache server in OS X you can you simply point your mobile device to your Mac’s IP address. If you’re developing in Visual Studio and using IIS you will need t...

Making the Move to Ghost

While historically I have not posted to my blog very often, I have decided to move it from a self-hosted Wordpress install over to the hosted blogging platform, Ghost. The Ghost blogging engine itself is open source so you are able to use your hosting of choice, but lately I’ve really grown to appreciate turn key services. I just pay a small monthly fee and it all “just works.”For the needs of ...

Set Messages Status to Current Rdio Track

Semi-recently I switched to Rdio from Spotify and in doing so I was forced to revisit my iChat-Spotify-AppleScript post.  I have adapted the script to work with Rdio and have also made a few updates.  For one, iChat is now Messages and, of course, Spotify is now Rdio.  I also made some changes that makes the script check if Rdio is ready before attempting to retrieve the track info.  Rdio has b...

Crocheted Halloween Cat Toys

I recently saw some crocheted cat toy rings on Etsy and decided to make a bunch for all the cats in my life (I only have one in case you’re wondering). I bought some orange and green wool yarn.  You’ll need something round to crochet on. I used jelly braclettes.  You can get a grip of them for $6 on Amazon.  It was a little awkward at first crocheting around the ring, but this video helped me o...