My Software Cookbook

What do you do if you find yourself in a situation where you have one set with a working charger but a faulty battery, and another incompatible set with a working battery but a faulty charger? [Read More]

Microsoft recently tucked the 'Sign Out' and 'Switch Users' buttons behind a maze of menus, making them harder to access. Frustrated by this change, I decided to take matters into my own hands. Using PowerShell, I crafted a custom menu that brings these actions back to your fingertips. [Read More]

In this article I show how to quickly get started with a React 18 application without needing create-react-app and Node.js [Read More]

In 2018 I had moved my blog to Github pages using Jekyll on the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). But when doing the setup again on a new laptop with Ubuntu 22.04 and Ruby 3, I found out the hard way the steps for installing Ruby from my original guide... [Read More]

The SOAP XML generated by WCF can be customized but documentation on how to do it is becoming difficult to find. This article puts together steps from several different sources to explain how to inject a custom XmlSerializer into a WCF Operation in order to customize the response. [Read More]