My New Substack is Finally Here
Check out my new substack at https://lynndemarest.substack.com So far, I’m planning on serializing The Soul Gene there. Right now, it has a few of the chapters that read OK as short stories. I’ll probably...
Activating a Cable Modem/Router with the Xfinity App
To save a couple coins, I decided to buy my own cable modem/router instead of paying rent to Comcast every month. The modem worked well — it was one of those approved by Comcast...
“The Soul Gene” joins Alison Nissen and the Florida Writer Podcast
I’m pleased to announce the latest podcast featuring The Soul Gene. Alison Nissen is passionate about stories and believes everyone has a story worth sharing. As an award-winning author, blogger, podcaster, and co-founder of...
“The Soul Gene” to be On the Air in Sarasota, Florida
Exciting News! Tune in to WSLR 96.5 Friday May 19th at 9 AM ET to hear me chat with neurologist Dr. Steve Norris, of Surreal News, about The Soul Gene, my novel, which explores...
Using Chocolatey Package Manager
Chocolatey is a package manager for Windows, much like apt-get on linux. Like all package managers, it allows you to easily install and upgrade applications. Note that not all applications are available, but many...
.Net Core 3.1 CORS
Cross Origin Resource Sharing centers on the fact that modern browsers won’t allow javascript programs running in them from making XHR requests to a foreign server unless the server expressly allows it. The browser...
How to Unlock a Locked Port in Windows 10
Now and then when developing an Angular SPA with Visual Studio Code, I lock up the default port, 4200. When this happens, you are told you can just reconfigure the app to use a...
Razor Component Callbacks
To communicate from a child razor component to the component that references it (the parent), pass the name of the callback function to the child component in much the same way you pass parameters....
Run MS SQL Server in a Docker Container
If you haven’t discovered Docker yet, you’re missing out. Docker is so popular you probably know it allows applications to run in lightweight containers similar to virtual machines but more nimble because the containers...
Using toastr.js
toastr.js/toastr.css lets you easily display self-hiding notifications easily in an HTML page. Get the files here, along with usage tips. https://github.com/CodeSeven/toastr Note that the javscript requires jQuery. In $(document).ready, you can initialize the toastr...
