I listened to a great TED Talk today about effective communication at work - How to Write Less but say More by Jim Vandehei. [Read More]

I am using Logstash and Filebeat to ship log files into a central repository. [Read More]

Once a database has been moved into SINGLE USER mode, it can be tricky to get it out of that mode. Usually, you will need to run [Read More]

This is my personal summary of the book Making Work Visible: Exposing Time Theft to Optimize Work & Flow. It’s a recap to jog my memory, and may not be useful without reading the book. The book is short and to the point and well worth a read. [Read More]

Partials are a nice way in ASP.NET of sharing mark-up across views. These are usually rendered from within view markup, but sometimes you may want to render a partial from within a controller method - for example if you want to create an HTML email but don’t want to put... [Read More]