cURL is one of most powerful tools for testing HTTP traffic. We typically use cURL to interact with HTTP APIs or test websites. Although cURL supports HTTP/2, the version that's installed on macOS Sierra does not. If you try to use the —http2 flag, you'll receive the following error: Fortunately, we can use another installation from Homebrew alongside the default version. To do so, … [Read more...]
DuckDuckGo as Default Search Engine in Chrome
If you want to use DuckDuckGo as your default search engine in Google Chrome browser, here are a few steps you need to follow to set that up: Go to Settings Under Search heading, select Manage search engines... Under Other search engines box, fill in the form in this order:DuckDuckGoduckduckgohttps://duckduckgo.com/?q=%s Click Done and open Manage search engines... again. Make the … [Read more...]
Free and Paid Stock Photos Sites
One sure way to enhance your blog is to put images on its pages. However, we can't just take any pictures on the web and add it to our website due to copyright infringement issue. Fortunately, there are many stock exchange photos sites that we can use to get copyright free images. But if you're not careful, using stock images can also get expensive especially if your blog generates little or no … [Read more...]
Waterfox: Firefox on Steroid
Update: As of 15 December 2015, Firefox 64-bit for Windows is also available and it can be downloaded here. If you like Firefox on Windows system but have been waiting for the 64-bit version, check this one browser out, Waterfox, the fastest 64-bit variant of Firefox. As stated on its website, waterfoxproject.org, the browser is based on Mozilla Firefox source code, but compiled in Intel's C++ … [Read more...]
Map Model Classes to Differently Named Tables in Entity Framework
For a few days, I kept running into this minor but annoying issue using EF 4.2 with MVC3 where the web application refused to map a class (Profile) to an existing table (tblProfile) in a database [CPDB] and instead created a brand new table with the same name on a different database [CPDB.Domain.Entities.ProfileEntities]. What confused me even more was I did this step before for another class … [Read more...]