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Being more accessible: Highlighting images that don't have alternate text
I saw a tweet recently that showed a really cool trick you can use to highlight when images are either have missing, or empty, alternate text. As Wikipedia says (so it must be true!):
The alt …
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Setting an O365 user to have no password expiry via PowerShell
If, like me, you're using Office 365 as your email solution you may have encountered the situation where you don't get emails landing from such things as blog comments because the password has …
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Link Dump
Another assortment of links, of interest to me, that may be of interest to you!
The Rough History of MSBuild
This one's here really as a jumping-off point to the other posts in this guys blog. He's …
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The dreaded coding / technical test
I've given, and taken, different flavours of coding/technical "test" which seem to fall into three main buckets
Write some code on a computer
Write some code on a whiteboard
Talk through a …
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Using is instead of == to check whether an object is a null reference
A tweet yesterday by Bertrand Le Roy:
Something in C# I learned today: `if (a is null)` is not just prettier, it's also more robust than `if (a == null)`. thx @MadsTorgersen
— Bertrand Le Roy (@ …
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Putting an "about me" blurb at the bottom of each post
By the time you read this, each of the posts in this blog (and the recipe blog) will come with an "about me" blurb at the bottom of the page, in no particular order, Scott Hanselman has one:
As …
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Top 10 posts for October 2017
I put together the occasional "link dump" post where I drop a series of links that I've had open in tabs that are of interest to me, and that I think may be of interest to others. In a semi-related …