Removing Tickets and Bloat from Spiceworks
Spiceworks has an SQLite database to store all the information about tickets, but use it for a while, and soon you will end up with a huge file which causes…
Author Archives: stephen
Receiving Emails from Forms in MS Team Sites
For this, I am going to assume you have: Already created a team site Added some members Ensured you are an owner Here’s a resource you can refer to if…
If Only
I don’t know about you, but sometimes things that are right in front of me are invisible. DIY jobs, washing up, … you get the idea 🙂 It’s the same…
ISAPI Filters Error
If you get an error that looks like this:
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HTTP Error 500.0 - Internal Server Error Calling LoadLibraryEx on ISAPI filter<br> "C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\aspnet_filter.dll" failed |
You basically have an extra slash in the path name that needs to be removed. Fixing it is quite easy…
Installing the Demo Laravel App on Windows IIS
Let’s assume you already have a basic demo app ready to go. Copy the Laravel app folder into a suitable location on the server; it doesn’t matter too much where….
Installing PHP on Windows with IIS
The Installation Download the Web Platform Installer (Web PI) Run it (search for Web in Start Menu) Click Products then Frameworks. Choose PHP 7.3.1 (x64) Click Add Click Install Click…
A Mention on Startups for the Rest of Us
I absolutely love listening to Startups for the Rest of Us and after a tweet from Rob Walling asking for questions, I had one in the wings ready to ask….
Adding Custom Exception Views to Laravel
There are a number of views already created in Blade for when exceptions occur but as you might expect, you can alter these to be just how you require. Editing…
AutoPlay Won’t Play in Chrome
This is a quick tip for anyone that wants to place a video onto their website and make it play automatically. If you check out the documentation, you will soon…
Useful Aliases in Windows Command Prompt for Vagrant Users
The new Windows Terminal software has been released and by all accounts, the app should have been released in mid June but if you can’t wait till then to have…
Virtual Desktops on Windows 10
Windows 10 comes with a nice virtual desktop system which, until recently, I had never really had cause to use. That changed when I needed to do an extended period…
Using Get-ChildItem Results in PowerShell
A colleague had a problem using Get-ChildItem in PowerShell. It would return results just fine but there was some confusion over what *exactly* was being returned. The issue arose because…
Logrotate Woes
Logrotate is a fabulous tool and is in no way the source of my woe – that’s all me, I am afraid! In my youthful exurberance, I had made a…
Using PHPStorm’s Live Templates
Saving keystrokes is not to be sniffed at when your fingertips and time are so precious. Fortunately, PHPStorm has a lovely feature which will allow you to use abbreviations for common code…
Making Fast Successive Web Requests in PowerShell
I’ve been working with Fail2Ban, playing with it’s configuration files in an attempt to get it to recognise when someone is making lots of fast successive web requests. Much like…