Category: Basics

How to Reset Visual Studio Code on Windows

After configuring Visual Studio Code to death I though I’d get a clean start. Turns out, that isn’t as straight forward as I’d hoped. After some Googling and poking around. Here’s a list of things I did. Note, “~/” represents your Window’s user account home folder. I also renamed folders instead of deleting them just in case I wanted to check some of my old extensions or settings. That step is up to you.

Here we go:

  • Close Visual Studio Code
  • In your user account director, rename ~/.vscode to something else (this is where are extensions are stored)
  • Open up ~/AppData/Roaming and rename “Code” to something else (this is where your settings are stored)
  • Reopen Visual Studio Code

The result is Visual Studio Code is completely reset. It also made me appreciate all my customizations looking at a vanilla install.

PHP Basics: str_replace

PHP’s str_replace function can by used to find/replace characters in a given string. Check out the video for more. You can learn more about str_replace on php.net.

I’ve decided to do some videos cover very basic PHP functions. While this isn’t useful for seasoned developers, I once was new to all this stuff and completely confused by everything I read. With that in mind, I hope this series of videos helps those of us that are just starting out.