Fix Chrome Instant Search
Today my Instant Search feature in Google Chrome stopped working, I’d enter a search term in the address bar (omnibar), press enter and nothing… no action whatsoever. It turns out I had two Google...
View ArticleVarnish + Expression Engine + nginx Config
Recently the Marketing team at my workplace asked me how much load our web server could handle, specifically a web site running on Ellis Lab’s Expression Engine for an upcoming promotion. Now typically...
View ArticleTinyme, not so tiny anymore…
When online retailer Tinyme (formerly Mooo) launched from a young couple’s spare bedroom back in 2006 they never dreamed that within 5 years they’d be shipping globally with a turnover of nearly $3M...
View ArticleHMV Mass Firing Live on Twitter
In January 2013 HMV provided a text book case for the need to appropriately control social media when they failed to secure their Twitter account and ended up broadcasting the firing 190 administrative...
View ArticleTreehouse: Work smarter, work less, make more money
I’ve been using Treehouse over the 2-3 years to broaden my skills and quench my interest in other areas of web and application development that I don’t get the opportunity to be hands-on with in my...
View ArticleGuide: NGINX Reverse Proxy for Lync 2013
Introduction Setting up a reverse proxy for an on premises Lync 2013 (aka Skype for Business) environment is fairly straightforward but the technical details are not very well documented, and there is...
View ArticleSharepoint 2013 People Picker in a Two-Way Forest / Domain Trust
Introduction For anyone wanting to allow users from their Active Directory forest or domain two-way trust to be able to access sites in SharePoint 2013 there is a small gotcha. User’s from the trusted...
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