Perfect Roast Potatoes
Did you know that there are two err, three err four KEY things that you are probably not doing which are the cause of why […]
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Chicken Stir Fry
This is a flavoursome and tangy dish that I came up with one night when my lad was staying over. His mum had said that […]
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Raspberry Pi and Retro Arcade Adventures – Part 5 – There maybe trouble ahead …
So we’ve hit part 5 of this series and we’re now at the point where I’d like to cover some of the little challenges that […]
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Raspberry Pi and Retro Arcade Adventures – Part 4 – ROM COMS and happily ever afters …
So the in the previous three parts I took trip down memory lane of my past love affairs with retro gaming from the late 1980’s […]
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Apple 2020 27″ 5K Retina – an honest review ….
I guess if I was to sum up the 2020 27″ iMac I would say; “Everything stays the same, but everything changes”. Cryptic I know, […]
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Raspberry Pi and Retro Arcade Adventures – Part 3 – Enter my son’s build of the console version …
In parts 1 and 2 of this series I have had a trip down memory lane in terms of the games of yesteryear that still […]
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Raspberry Pi and Retro Arcade Adventures – Part 2 – All the fun of the piCADE …
So in part one of this series I set the scene in regard to my love of computers from yesteryear and how what is regarded […]
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Raspberry Pi and Retro Arcade Adventures – Part 1 – Setting the scene …
I have loved computers since I was very young – if I recall correctly I got my first real computer when I was about seven […]
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Perfect Poached Eggs …
So, many years ago I learned how to make the perfect poached eggs to impress my girlfriend at the time. She was someone who was […]
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MacOs Catalina: There was an error in internet accounts preferences
Just a quick little post which I hope might help some folks out there. Over the last few days I had the need to totally […]
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Tracking unusual traffic on your WordPress website using Splunk Community Edition – Part 2
Welcome back to the second part of my three part series on using Splunk Community Edition to track for unusual activity on your Apache based […]
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Tracking unusual traffic on your WordPress website using Splunk Community Edition – Part 1
Like a good tenant, I tend to keep an eye on the resources that my website uses on the hosting platform that I use. I […]
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Selecting O365 in the Digital Age – Part 2 (So we wanna a thingy with a dowaadi-diddy…)
Well, so it seems that finishing this series could take years (literally) …. hmmmm! So, in the last part of this series I had a little […]
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Apple iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2015) and Samsung C34J791 Quad HD 34″ Monitor…
This is a little something that I thought that I would put something out there on – as quite frankly, As I was astonished that […]
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My MacBook Air 2018 (honest) review…
So, just to be upfront and people don’t accuse me of being a total Apple “Fan Boy” – I’m not; over my years working in […]
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Quick Tip – tracing insecure items on SSL pages using Firefox
So, I have been doing quite a bit of web development recently (as you can see from the new site) and have learned some new […]
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Selecting O365 in the Digital Age – Part 1 (Setting the Scene – and what is this Digital Thingy??)…
Part 2 of this article is (finally) available here Wow, I’ve been writing this post for a year! I really need to make sure that […]
Read moreHow to programmatically get all Mailbox Databases from Active Directory using C#…
Ok, so I was thinking (which is always a very dangerous thing!) – after my last post on how you can programmatically count Mailboxes per […]
Read moreProgrammatically counting mailboxes in Mailbox Databases using C#…
Ok, I know that the above is pretty easy using Powershell. In fact it is possible to also implement this using Automation Runspaces (again executing […]
Read moreQuick Tip – Programmatically Returning all Distribution Groups in AD within a C# project…
I am working on a new application at the moment which requires for all Distribution Groups within an Exchange 2010 environment to be populated into […]
Read moreQuick Tip: Sending e-Mail to a Distribution list via C# in Exchange 2007 / 2010…
I have been doing quite a bit of work with C# recently working on the new version of the OOOCTA tool. One of the features […]
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