A seasoned programmer

Creating a Powershell profile is a great way to create variables or aliases that you can use in your day to day work. The first thing you need to do is see if you already have a Powershell profile. You can do this by running the following Powershell command. test-Path $Profile if you get the following result. False This means that you need to create a Powershell profile. ...

I was working with TypeScript today and I ran into a JavaScript problem that caused me some issues. I needed to fix the number of decimal places in a temperature calculation example. This is my original TypeScript code. let printOutput = (fahrenheit: number, celsius: number) => { console.log(`${fahrenheit}f = ${celsius}c.`); }; let convert = (fahrenheit: number) => { let celsius = ((fahrenheit - 32) * (5 / 9)); return celsius; }; let fahrenheit = 100; let celsius = convert(fahrenheit); printOutput(fahrenheit, celsius); Returns. ...

I often use grep in Windows and Linux to find text in files. I have noticed that grep only works on traditional text files with .txt, .c, .cpp, .list, etc extensions. It doesn’t work with Markdown and C# text files and I find this frustrating. I have found a parallel grep program in the Microsoft Learn code samples written by David Pine that overcomes the grep limitations. The thing that I really like about this program is that I can use regular expressions in the search text. ...

I am used to gaining elevated privileges in Linux by adding sudo to a command e.g. sudo apt-get update I wanted to stay in elevated privileges so I went to login as root and realised that my normal Linux account didn’t have root privileges. I did some searching on the Internet and found that most versions of Linux disable the root account by default. I found that you can enable root by running the following command. ...

I have been searching for a musical holy grail for a number of years (well what I would call a holy grail). Converting music files from one format to another is something I have been doing for years but I have always had trouble reformatting .iso files into high quality FLAC files. I recently downloaded a Thelonious Monk album in .iso format and tried to load it into Foobar 2000, my music player of choice. ...

I have been using the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) for a number of years and just assumed that I was using WSL 2. A quick check told me that I was definitely using WSL 2. Note: I am using Powershell to check the version of WSL I have installed. wsl --status Returned. Default Distribution: Ubuntu-20.04 Default Version: 2 Windows Subsystem for Linux was last updated on 3/11/2021 WSL automatic updates are on. ...