Tips and tricks

Number of articles: 20.

Visual Studio Code (VSCode) adds language-specific features to files based on the file extension and provides sensible defaults. But what if your project uses different language modes per extension, depending on the framework used? Enter folder-based file associations.
Makefiles are convenient for semi-automating project tasks. We often use these files for running, building, and deploying projects. However, they often come without documentation. This article explains how to print Makefile targets to the command line with help texts.
Are you going to have your first customer meeting? While I would be surprised if someone sends in the newbie without backup, here are some tips I've recently shared with my students.
Hashtags are popular means of tagging content on social media. Improve accessibility and readability of hashtags by capitalizing words by using camel case.
If-statement reversal is a technique that revolves around breaking from a function, loop, or script early by avoiding unnecessary code nesting.
Add a help directive to your Makefile to print a list of all available directives and their description.