Mr N

If you use serialisation then IIS dynamically compiles the extra classes it needs to perform the serialisation and it uses the Windows temporary folders to store the class files definition and class compilation artefacts. If IIS can't write to the tempo… more »

There are plenty of articles on how to get going with SQL (or MySQL) for beginners. However, there aren’t many articles which take you back to basics describing the building blocks used and help you understand the concept of what a database actually is.… more »

I've recently done a project that uses load balancing. mod_proxy is a blog for another day but it was based on a LAMP stack. I install this all the time for lots of different projects. Some are development projects and some are just system administratio… more »

I hadn't used my Cisco ASDM 5.2 for ASA for a while and when I needed to add a couple of extra users to the VPN it didn't work. Everything seemed to load in ok but when I tried to submit my login credentials it hung. I loaded the Java console and got t… more »

I always need to remember the special HTML entity codes for characters. Many blogging applications re-render the characters to make them more readable but when you want to cut and paste the text it's all wrong. The best example of this is double quotes.… more »