Brendan Sluke

Shutting Down PriceMedal I’ve decided to shut down my website, PriceMedal, a website that tracked Playstation 4 game prices from the Playstation Store, Walmart, and Amazon. I really enjoyed creating and maintaining the website, it was sad to shut the project down, but the work involved to keep the website up and running has become too much. I will use the newly available time to work on other projects including this blog.

I was trying to run a command that would allow me to both build my Angular project and deploy it to firebase hosting in a one line command in VS Code’s terminal using the Angular CLI. Original Command After running this command ng build --prod && firebase deploy I was met with this error message: 1 2 3 4 5 + ng build --prod && firebase deploy + ~~ The token '&&' is not a valid statement separator in this version.

Backstory I recently migrated my blog to a brand new Angular App that is hosted using Firebase Hosting. I needed my old blog posts that were at /posts/blog-post-name to redirect to /blog/blog-post-name. I needed to have the redirects be server side 301 redirects in order to preserve any SEO link juice from my the previous blog posts. How to Handle Redirects Handling redirects in an Angular App comes down to two options:

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I recently updated my test project to .NET Core 3.1 from .NET 4.7.1 and I noticed this error when I was trying to run my tests: Unable to find testhost.dll. Please publish your test project and retry. My first thought was to Publish my test project and attempt to run the tests again, this failed again. Giving me the same error message: Unable to find testhost.dll. Please publish your test project and retry.

Solution Open up Windows Powershell as Administrator Run the following command: set-executionpolicy remotesigned You should be able to now run commands in the Visual Studio Code terminal for Angular and Node.js. Backstory I was trying to create my first Angular project using Visual Studio code, I successfully got the Angular CLI installed alongside Node.js. But when I tried to run the command ng new (also errors for ng serve command) I was met with the following error message: