I’m setting up a tactical farm of Linux servers on some desktops till we can get the permanent kit installed in the data center. The new servers are running on trader desktops so they’re reasonabl...

The SharePoint developer dashboard, when switched on, will render at the bottom of the page in SharePoint 2010 and appear as an icon in the top right hand corner of SharePoint 2013. If the DisplayL...

For the project I am currently working on, we have an order for a Hadoop Appliance from our supplier to be placed in the Mega Data Centre for processing all of our log files. The order is in, but w...

For one reason or another, my SharePoint 2013 development environment became corrupt and the quickest way to get it up and running again was to start a fresh with SharePoint. The problem I faced w...

Not too long ago I moved my website to a static page structure using Sandra.Snow. At the time, I was aware that it was based on the idea of Jekyll with a Microsoft lilt using Nancy to generate the...

I sat with my kids while they watched Justin Time (they love it) on New Years day and I started to clear up the disk in my Dell XPS 13. Its a 256GB SSD and while its not tiny it does need a certain...

When an update has been made to /etc/fstab the changes won’t immediately and automatically take effect so there is a need to refresh them manually. This can be done either by rebooting, which is a...

I have been doing some revision on my WPF, particularly around ModelView-View-Model pattern. One thing that I’ve always found a bit difficult to get right is the handling of events on the window an...

One of the requirements for a piece of SharePoint/Office 365 work I’m working on at the moment is for easy finger usage when accessing with an iPad. The user base coming in on iPad are performing a...

Since starting to use Azure more and more I’ve found myself revisiting suddenly enthused by the web and cloud. I’ve had the obligatory Amazon free tier but done little with it. (I’ve recently talke...