Advanced ethernet adapter driver settings are extremely configurable finding sensible values can be tricky without testing the connection. This post explains what each setting means and lists recommended values that will maximise your home network’s throughput and minimise CPU overhead (based on my own experience.) A maximum transfer rate of 114Mb/s was achieved with these settings on a 1 Gigabit connection.

It’s no secret that watching TV and getting completely involved in fictional universes is one of my favourite activities. Fiction is awesome. Book and script writers are very powerful people in the sense that they define what an entire fictional universe is about. I started watching Scream today which first aired in June last year. The show is a TV series version of the slasher movies of the same name released in 1996.

Digital notetaking can be infuriating. This post discusses the issues I have had with Evernote and possible alternatives.

There are different ways web applications can store state all with advantages and disadvantages and varying use cases. The table below summarises how hidden fields, URLs, cookies and server-side sessions are used to store state in web applications.

In Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), if you want to be able to pass an object with code around a distributed application then you have to compile the receiving end with the interface definition of the remote object.

There are millions of free WordPress themes on the internet but no Rails specific themes. What to do when you want to style your web app to make it look less like the Bootstrap standard template and more like the brand you are trying to build?