Husband. Dad of 2. Son. Brother. Developer. ALM/DevOps Consultant. Former-MSFT MVP. Writer. Love fast cars & hard rocking music. ///M Power. Love cuddles with my kids.
Microsoft
VSLive [https://vslive.com/Events/Redmond-2017/Home.aspx]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 [https://aka.ms/paulstubbs] I'm going to show a few demos on using the
tfs
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 Work Items on this page. For years, if you wanted to work with Team Foundation
Thunderbolt 3
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 progressed, Thunderbolt 2 came out and I built a new PC using a Gigabyte GA-Z87X-UD7
Windows 10
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/help/4043454/windows-10-windows-server-2016-update-history Original Post Almost all of my client PCs and virtual
SQL Server;Linux;Data Dude;SSDT;Redgate
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 Studio. However, in 2006 I saw the light from the Dude [http://www.
Microsoft
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 the folks that build many of the tools I use everyday. This post is going to focus
Azure
Last year, Microsoft announced [https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/building-the-intelligent-cloud-announcing-new-azure-innovations-to-transform-business/] 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 Azure Virtual Machines with GPU capabilities. GPUs are ideal
Rocky
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 see Rocky in Minneapolis. I wanted to "hang