A friend of mine works for a company, let's call it Company X, who employ the industry standard of a typically overcomplicated technology setup comprising of numerous systems on a complete mismatch of hardware configurations.

One fateful day a few System Admins snapped and went about establishing server that were no longer in use or were providing no critical services to the inner workings of the company in order to turn off and be decommissioned or put to better use.

This brings us to The Five Hundred Server, a mysterious and unfathomable machine, running no specific services or bearing any ... (read more)

Right you 'orrible lot,

I've been coerced (they beat me with sticks until I agreed) into running up the 1037 steps (38 floors) of the London "Gherkin" as part of a team for Charity - and yes, that was running not walking/crawling/taking the lift. Now those of you who know me will know quite well I'm not really a "Charity" person but I am ultra-competitive therefore if I'm doing this I want to raise a hell of a lot more money than the other people in my team so I can rub it in their faces (ahem, I'm a good ... (read more)

I have recently been working on a tool to display human resource allocation data in a gantt style chart indicating where a resource has been allocated and for how long as well as taking in to account other categories of allocation such as holidays. Whilst the tool worked great in to a small challenge correctly calculating the number of business/working days within a period of allocation.

The end result is the below Javascript. This Javascript takes 2 dates and returns the number of business days between the 2 dates.

Enjoy.

    var DateUtils = {

        daysBetween: function (start, ... (read more)		

I recently was set a task of presenting a SharePoint website demo through the use of a series of screenshots as we could not directly access the server from the outside world to show to clients.

It seemed a simple task; I'd create a series of screenshots throughout the site then tie them all together using hotspots to simulate navigation and other interactivity. In addition it made sense to make use of the jQuery Javascript Library to add a bit of polish to the demo.

However after taking my screenshots and constructing my hotspots I ... (read more)