Why you should be Folding@Home

I’ve just restarted Folding@home and if you haven’t yet, you should start to! Get involved in the fight against coronavirus! 💪
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Get recent (public) GitHub commits

So, I recently found myself needing to publicise how many public GitHub commits I had made on any repo I’ve worked on and dug in to GitHub’s incredibly useful API!
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PHP DOM Manipulation (snippet)

A topic of contention - should you use PHP or jQuery (or any other of the plethora of JS framework offerings!) to manipulate elements in the DOM?
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What is a CDN & why should you use one?

CDN’s (Content Delivery Network’s) have become incredibly widely used these days when it comes to creating and maintaining a high performing, international website - yet a lot of people starting out aren’t necessarily always aware of them or whether they need one.
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What is DNS and why should you care?

I’ve previously covered ‘What is a CDN?’ and I thought it was high-time I cover another of IT system with a three letter acronym for a name.
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Rubber Duck Development - What is it?

‘Rubber Duck Development’ or ‘Rubber Duck Debugging’ has many names and is a method of troubleshooting/debugging code and systems. The concept behind it though is incredibly simple and makes a surprising amount of sense!
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PowerShell: Find all Locked user accounts in Active Directory

This one is a very short, but sweet, guide to finding all locked out AD User accounts. These few simple commands have saved me a huge amount of time on more than one occasion!
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PowerShell: Get-MailboxStatistics commands

Supporting an infrastructure containing Exchange servers, which will be the case for most enterprise environments these days. there’s always a requirement to find out how big a users mailbox is at any given time. This is where the Get-MailboxStatistics cmdlet comes in extremely handy!
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