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2020

PrimeFilm 1800u Film Scanner

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The drivers on the enclosed CD don’t work in Windows 10.

I had a nosey around online and found this post on the Microsoft Forum where Jack Moorhouse gave some excellent advice (copied below for... (continue reading)

HP DM1-4027 Netbook locks up in Linux due to Thermal Event

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Sometimes in Linux I’ve noticed that the laptop will lock up, often in high CPU situations. This appears to be caused by some sort of thermal support (or lack of) and after some research, you... (continue reading)

2019

Convert JavaScript Number to Number Array

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I had a number which I wanted converting into an array where each digit of the number was an item in the array. I tried a few different ways of doing this but always ended up with a string array which... (continue reading)

The imported project ".../Microsoft.WebApplication.targets" was not found

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We have an existing web application project at work which was failing to open in Visual Studio 2019 with the following error:

The imported project "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual...

Hosting Umbraco 7 on AWS Elastic Beanstalk

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Previously at work, our marketing websites were all designed up front, with copy provided by our colleagues in Marketing and then the pages were generated by the development teams. Because this was... (continue reading)

No executable found matching command "dotnet-lambda"

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When packaging up a dotnetcore lambda function for deployment to AWS, you would run the following command:

dotnet lambda package -o ../../build/{DestinationFileName}.zip

However, when I ran this... (continue reading)

2018

Umbraco 7: Create a custom Property Editor

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Recently, I’ve been working on creating an implementation of Umbraco CMS for the Marketing team at work to use for quickly creating content for promotions etc. and the SEO Manager has asked what... (continue reading)

2017

React.js Unit Testing with Jest and Enzyme

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I’ve written loads of unit tests in my lifetime for C# and JavaScript, but never gotten around to writing any for testing the actual React components because there’s always been something... (continue reading)

Map() support in JavaScript ES6/ES2015

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ECMAScript 6/2015 has brought a lot of new things to the world of JavaScript, and Map() is one of them. However, not all browsers are too keen on particular ways of using it.

I’ve been working... (continue reading)

iPad appears in Windows 10, but not showing in iTunes

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I have an aging iPad2 which is getting on a bit but still works fine, but often won’t appear in iTunes, but is showing in Windows 10 as a device in ‘This PC’.

I find it usually... (continue reading)