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dev What is Visual Studio Live Share and how do you use it?

This post shows you how to get set up to start using Visual Studio Live Share for remote pair programming.

dev How I doubled the traffic to my website in 4 simple steps

In the space of 2 months, I doubled the traffic on my website, and the increase was all Organic traffic. In this post I will share the steps I took to double the traffic to my website, so you can apply the same steps.

dev How to copy SQL Server data to Elasticsearch using LogStash

How to copy SQL Server data to Elasticsearch using LogStash

community Hack24 2018 Live Blog

This is a live blog post, documenting my experience of Hack24 2018 in Nottingham.

dev How to fix the error ERR_SPDY_PROTOCOL_ERROR

This post shows you how to solve the error ERR_SPDY_PROTOCOL_ERROR for your website, which shows up in Google Chrome, Opera, Edge and Internet Explorer

conferences·dev 10 practical tips for improving your public speaking

In this post Marcin Zajkowski shares some of his pro tips for improving your public speaking, based on his experiences.

dev An open letter to people who write open letters

I've seen lots of open letters on the internet lately, so this letter is addressed to all of those people who write open letters.

dev This is why you should never judge a book by its cover

Today I learned a valuable lesson about how you should never judge a book by its cover.

dev How to use a custom local dev url without having to edit the hosts file

Here is a really useful tip for all web developers. It shows you how you use custom urls for your local dev machine websites without having to edit the hosts file.

sql The day I hacked Troy Hunt's website to delete my data

I needed to remove my personal details from Troy Hunt's website. This post shows you why and how I did it.

dev What is TDD? How to get started with Test Driven Development

This post gives you an introduction into Test Driven Development. It uses a simple, real world example to show you how to get started.

dev 3 Features of ES7 (and Beyond) That You Should Be Using, Now

JavaScript is anything but a "static" language (pun intended). It seems everything is changing - even the naming of releases has changed, with years marking the language version. But which features you can use now? Or Soon? It isn't always obvious, but there are a few key features of the latest and upcoming JavaScript features to which you should be paying attention.