I’m not a huge fan of Bing search engine, I’ve tried to use it but I don’t like the format of the search results and I don’t think it’s particularly good at finding relevant results either. I do l...

I know that it is incredibly lazy and a non problem but I find it quite tedious in Windows 8 to go digging for the system environment variable GUI whenever I need to add or update something. Gener...

I’ve just had an interesting problem with an SFTP account that suddenly stopped working from a cron job. When the account was used directly from the bash prompt the response was simply Connection c...

As part of a project I’m working on I need to create a cross join of users against symbols; the idea being that any of the given users might look at any of the given symbols. I have a list of users...

I have been setting up a couple of Red Hat boxes and I need to have a cron task to mount a network share from an AD domain, copy the files then dismount. In the past I have successfully accessed t...

I have been doing some work for a company who have a user base who primarily use iPads to access the SharePoint site. There was a requirement to allow those users to easily access the team site wit...

I got the result and feedback for the first assignment of the final Open University project today. Its been a long week waiting for it, not least because a significant number of others on the cours...

At the eleventh hour I finally settled on the project that I am going to be working on for the next 8 months. I had previously intended to work on a project that would allow me to play with some ja...

For the final project of my open university degree I am looking at creating an application to bring together a proprietary dataset of information about available workers and cross it with social me...

Since November 2013 I’ve been working out in my garage with a cross trainer and timed interval training. I did have a membership to Virgin Active, but between my commute, Open University degree an...