Blogger

Tutorials for Google's popular blog engine called Blogger. Tips & tricks for making your posts look better and techniques for special use cases.

How to add syntax highlighting to Blogger

This tutorial describes how to add syntax highlighting to you Blogger blog posts.

Pictures uploaded to Blogger post become grey

Images uploaded to your Blogger blog can become greyish if you don’t use the right settings. This tutorial shows you how to solve this problem.

Chrome

Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier.

Open a completely blank page in Chrome when the new tab button is pressed

In previous versions of Chrome there where features that could disable this behaviour, but currently the best way to do it is with an extension.

How to clear the cache for a single page in Chrome

The Chrome Developer Toolbar lets you disable the cache altogether when it is open, but there is also a hidden option that lets you make one reload without using the cache.

Docker

Tutorials about the Docker software containerization platform.

How to copy files to docker container from host and vica versa?

If you don’t want to install an editor in your docker container just to make a few small changes (e.g. change apache config etc.), you can just edit them on the host and copy them to the container using these simple commands.

DokuWiki

DokuWiki is a simple to use and highly versatile Open Source <a class="interwiki iw_wp" title="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/wiki" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/wiki">wiki</a> software that doesn't require a database. It is loved by users for its clean and readable <a class="wikilink1" title="wiki:syntax" href="https://www.dokuwiki.org/wiki:syntax">syntax</a>. The ease of maintenance, backup and integration makes it an administrator's favorite. Here you can find some useful tutorials and tips for it.

Dokuwiki SyntaxHighlighter3 plugin adds shadow around each character

Tutorial about how to remove the shadow that the Dokuwiki SyntaxHighlighter3 plugin adds around each character.

Use the first heading as page name in DokuWiki

How to create internal links in Dokuwiki that use the first heading as the page name.

Fiddler

Tutorials for Fiddler, the free web debugging proxy for any browser, system or platform.

Websites not loading correctly when Fiddler is running

After an update Fiddler started to cause interesting behaviour on websites…

Git

<em>Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency. Git is easy to learn and has a tiny footprint with lightning fast performance.</em>

Git ignore everything in a folder except some files

There can be various cases with git, where you would like to ignore almost everything in a folder, except a few files.

How to commit an empty directory to Git

There is no way to commit an empty directory to a Git repository, you have to put a file in the directory to be able to commit it to your repo.

Running git init with or without the bare option

This differences between using the git init command to create a bare or a non-bare repository.

MySQL

<em>Tutorials on the MySQL open-source relational database management system.</em>

How to temporarily disable foreign key checks in MySQL?

Disabling the foreign keys temporarily is very useful when you would like to delete some tables that depend on each other.

Node JS

Node.js is an open-source, cross-platform runtime environment for developing server-side Web applications.

On Windows npm install silently fails

Sometimes the npm install command on Windows could just silently fail without producing an error message.

Windows

Articles containing tips and tricks for Windows from a developer perspective.

How to fix “Setup was unable to create a new system partition or locate an existing system partition” during Windows 10 install

Article on fixing the “Setup was unable to create a new system partition or locate an existing system partition” error during Windows 10 install.

How to run multiple commands in Windows command prompt

How to run multiple commands in Windows command prompt using the && and & symbols.