I have no idea how I didn’t know this existed - it’s been around for ages. Openfiles.exe has existed on Windows machines since Windows XP, and this is something that I’ve struggled with for years! [Read More]

I was looking into poor performance issue on a data warehouse report today, and noticed this line as one of the columns being returned in the SELECT statement: [Read More]

I decided to install MediaWiki today on one of our web servers, and set it up within IIS. However, although the site immediately served pages, all of them were displaying without any styles. The stylesheet request showed with a 200 response within Chrome so I didn’t think there was anything... [Read More]

I needed to set up a web site that has a basic page for browsing as the root, but within that site there should also be download folders secured for different users. The folders don’t require a web page, just browsable content. The issue I had was that there is... [Read More]

I ran SSL tests on one of our web servers recently and found it was horribly out of date, receving an “F” from QULAYS SSL Labs SSL Server Test. Boooo. The problem was, in the past this was a pain in the butt as you had to pile into the... [Read More]