Most modern front end tooling offers up all kinds of great features like autosave, hot module reloading, auto refresh. Great tools, I love them. Sometimes these tools can get you into trouble in browserland. Infinite loops, app hanging after a crash, or serious performance hit, whatever. The point is that you need to kill chrome quick so you can start it back up and keep … [Read more...] about Force Quit Kill all Chrome Windows MacOS
Review: MSP Valet Parking at Terminal 1
I had heard about valet parking at MSP Terminal before traveling to ng-conf this week, but I couldn't find any reviews or any additional details other than the limited info provided by the MSP parking site and a four-year-old yelp review. I wouldn't usually use valet parking at an airport, but I didn't want to risk losing my only key (different story) by taking it with me … [Read more...] about Review: MSP Valet Parking at Terminal 1
SOLVED: Angular 6 CLI Karma Stuck in Single Run | Karma Stops Running
Angular 6 was released only a few hours ago and I was eager to start working with it. As I was working through some of the many features, I found that the test runner exits after a single test run despite the settings explicitly setting defaults (autoWatch: true, singleRun: false). I have already logged this issue with the CLI team on Github but wanted to share my … [Read more...] about SOLVED: Angular 6 CLI Karma Stuck in Single Run | Karma Stops Running
How to Manually Install Java 8 on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
I recently upgraded to the latest LTS version on my dev machine and needed to install Java. I couldn't remember exactly what I did last time but knew that I needed to download the tarball from Oracle, save the extracted files somewhere, add the runtime (java), SDK compiler (javac) and webstart (javaws) executables to the ubuntu alternatives list and add a JAVA_HOME refererence … [Read more...] about How to Manually Install Java 8 on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
Remove VirtualBox from Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial
I recently had to make some updates to my VirtualBox and Vagrant installations and decided to completely uninstall VirtualBox to reinstall the newest version to start fresh. I am creating this post as a future reference (mostly for the home folder info) but also to share. Step 1: Completely Remove All VirtualBox Packages and Folders from Ubuntu If you are interested in … [Read more...] about Remove VirtualBox from Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial