Technical Books read in 2019

GitHub for Dummies by Sarah Guthals & Phil Haack Hands down the most enjoyable technical book I read this year. I understand some developers turn their noses up at the thought of reading a Dummies book. However once I saw that Phil Haack had with Sarah Guthals written a book about GitHub I knew it […]

Some Typescript compiler options for improving code quality

Set your compiler’s warning level to the highest, pickiest level possible and fix the code so that it doesn’t produce any compiler warnings Steve McConnell Chapter 28 Debugging, Code Complete The Typescript compiler has a number of options that can help improve the code within your project. Switch on The compiler options are found in […]

Raspberry Pi 4 in portrait mode uses half the screen

I ran into a problem when putting together a Dakboard powered by a Raspberry Pi 4. When I changed the display orientation to portrait only half of the screen was being used. My Raspberry Pi is running Raspbian Release 10 Codename Buster. The problem was visible on two different monitors so I knew the problem […]