vslive Learn Lots in Las Vegas—VSLive! March 2018 As I get back to work after the core bit of the holidays, I've been refining my backlog. As a speaker and conference chair for VSLive!, I've got lots to do. Rocky, Andrew,
Personal 2018 is here! 2018 is already looking to be busy. Is some ways more so than last year. I've got eight conferences already confirmed for 2018 with the first in Las Vegas for VSLive! I have
dream.build.play. Dream.Build.Play. Update 2018-01-01 Well, as the eternal optimist, I bit off more than I could chew with work and the holidays. So I'll focus on using all of 2018 to get the game done.
dream.build.play. If you build it, they will come ... ... or so they say. In 1989, it was a baseball diamond in a corn field in Iowa. The movie was the Field of Dreams. For me on December 1, 2017, it's to build
Microsoft VSLive 2017 Redmond VSLive is currently happening in Redmond and I wanted to post some links from my talks. General Session: Amplifying Human Ingenuity with Microsoft AI with Paul Stubbs I'm going to show a few
tfs Work with VSTS (or TFS) Work Items from Excel without installing Team Explorer TLDR; If you just want the step-by-step on how to work with Excel and work items without installing Team Explorer, jump down to the Non-Developer's Short Guide to Using Excel with TFS/VSTS
Thunderbolt 3 A nice surprise - Thunderbolt 3 working in Server 2016 I've been a big fan of Thunderbolt since I got it on my first Mac. The idea of faster external storage was great. Add daisy chaining and I was in. As time as
Windows 10 Windows 10, Updates, and knowing what's current Update 2018-01-01 I've been using this post myself as quick way to get to the downloads. There's a different link to pull down the Fall Creators Update bits: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/
SQL Server;Linux;Data Dude;SSDT;Redgate How do you do File | New | SQL Server Database? It used to be a no brainer. I'd fire up SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) and go to town. Or if SSMS wasn't installed, I would open up the Database Tools in Visual
Microsoft Giving Feedback to Microsoft—Be Nice The other day the subject of giving feedback to Microsoft about Visual Studio and Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) came up. This got me thinking about all the ways one can communicate with
Azure Azure N-Series–High Performance GPU in the Cloud Last year, Microsoft announced their intent to offer high-end GPUs in Azure VMs: Finally, to further boost the performance of our world-class cloud infrastructure, we today announced the N-series, a new family of
Rocky No Time Like the Present Today's a special day. Why you ask? It's simple. It's my dear friend Rocky's birthday. He turned 50 today. Today is super special because in February of this year, I flew out to