Windows

My year with a MacBook

I’m primarily a .NET developer but for a year I worked exclusively on a MacBook using Boot Camp to run Windows 10. Like many software companies the one I work for provides its development staff with options for their working computers. My options were a MacBook Pro or a Dell. I’d used …

Node Development on Windows

Until the long file name issue is fixed node.js development on a Windows machine is going to continue to suck. That is all.

Handy Windows Shortcut

In File Explorer hold Shift+Right-Click on any selected item or group of items and you’ll find the context menu item “Copy as path”. Selecting this will add the path strings for the selected items to your clipboard. For example the image below shows a folder and two files selected …

Windows Application Menus Left or Right?

Until recently I didn’t know that menus in Windows applications (File, Tools, Help, etc.) could be presented in more than one way. I discovered this little feature because my new Lenovo X1 Carbon came with the setting set to right-handed which is the opposite of my previous dozen plus Windows …