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Sync your Git Fork to the Original Repo

Syncing your forked repository to the original repository is an important step before submitting any pull request to the original repository for the changes in your forked repository. Even if you are not going to submit a pull request to the original repository, there are times that you want the additional features and/or bug fixes that have been done since you forked the original repository. You could do a pull request but this adds an additional commit into your forked repository instead of making your forked repository match the original repository.

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Getting Visual Studio Cordova Tooling Working with the Ionic Framework

I am doing an Ionic Framework presentation and I wanted to use the Visual Studio 2015 Cordova Tooling. I have done this presentation twice in the past couple of months using my Intel Nuc machine with the Visual Studio 2015 RTM Cordova tooling but it is kind of pain to do this since the Nuc is a desktop machine and doesn’t have a monitor so I have to look at the projector screen or being a laptop to use as well.

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Jekyll Part 13: Creating an Article Series

Welcome the continuing series on using Jekyll. In this tutorial we are going to go through how to create the series listing like you see for this blog series. Overview Sometimes a blog post gets too big and you need to split it into multiple articles or you want to do a series like this one that builds upon each other but you don’t want to have to manage a listing of all of the post in the series.

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Jekyll Part 12: Editing Locally

Welcome the continuing series on using Jekyll. In this tutorial we are going to set it up so that we can do draft posts that we can check into our repo but not have them show up on the production site. Overview In the last couple of articles, we installed jekyll locally but we didn’t talk about editing existing blog post or adding in new ones. There will be times where you will start a blog post but not have time to finish it all in one sitting.

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Jekyll Part 11: Installing Jekyll On OSx

Welcome the continuing series on using Jekyll. In this tutorial we are going to setup your MAC (OSx) computer to be able to edit your blog on your computer. Overview Up to this point we have been using the Github web site to edit all of our files but the downside to this is that any chances you want to make show up live in your blog before you have had a chance to test them.

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Jekyll Part 10: Installing Jekyll On Linux

Welcome the continuing series on using Jekyll. In this tutorial we are going to setup your Ubuntu Linux computer to be able to edit your blog on your computer. Overview Up to this point we have been using the Github web site to edit all of our files but the downside to this is that any chances you want to make show up live in your blog before you have had a chance to test them.

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Jekyll Part 09: Installing Jekyll On Windows

Welcome the continuing series on using Jekyll. In this tutorial we are going to setup your Windows computer to be able to edit your blog on your computer. Overview Up to this point we have been using the Github web site to edit all of our files but the downside to this is that any chances you want to make show up live in your blog before you have had a chance to test them.

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Camtasia 8.5 - How to Record to Mono

Today I upgraded from Camtasia 8.3 to Camtasia 8.5 and ran into an issue with my audio settings only recording to the left speaker. I know that my microphone only records in mono so this was not surprising. What was surprising is that the audio settings for the Camtasia Recorder were greyed out when using the TREC format. In Camtasia 8.3 I could tell the Camtasia Recorder to record in mono so that it would be in both left and right speakers.

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Visual Studio 2015 - External Web Tools

I ran into an issue with an npm package mis-behaving in Visual Studio 2015 but working just fine from the command line. After scratching my head for awhile trying to figure out what was going on, I discovered that Visual Studio was pointing to its own version of npm and node and not that ones that were available in my path that the command line was using. Visual Studio 2015 ships with:

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Visual Studio Code Snippets

There are a bunch of built-in Visual Studio code snippets that will generate code for you with a short keyword and then a tab key press. These shortcuts will make you more efficient when writing code such as creating properties, loops, exceptions, etc. Below I have listed the code snippets that I most frequently use and what the output from them looks like. To use these snippets type they keyword and then press the tab key.

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