For 18 months I’ve been working with Hadoop. Initially it was Hortonworks HDP on Windows then Hortonworks HDP on CentOS and for production we settled on Cloudera CDH5 on Red Hat. Recently we’ve bee...

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...