I just came back from the best technology training I have had in years: a world-first Microsoft SharePoint Elite Information Architecture course designed and delivered by Paul Culmsee. It has taught me a great deal across ALL facets of the day-to-day work that I do as a SharePoint architect. Among the more generic, philosophical takeaways [...]
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When building things inside virtual machines becomes an integral part of one’s real-life job, most people are faced with two insatiably limiting factors: amount of memory (RAM) and disk speed. While disk *space* is cheap and plentiful, RAM and fast disks still remain much of a technical barrier when it comes to equipment not only [...]
Smartphones are selling like hotcakes and in a couple of years time from now virtually all mobile phones will be smartphones at least throughout the developed world. It seems odd, then, that the various smartphones and Mac OS X don’t seem to get along very well with each other. When it comes to synchronising stuff [...]
When I said “as a corporate customer of Microsoft products, the probability of me installing Windows 7 on a physical machine any time soon is infinitesimally small” less than a week ago, I spoke too soon. That’s because, err, I am now running Windows 7 on my ThinkPad T61 laptop at work. This is my [...]
Is the time for biscuit, I mean, time for a new shiny netbook finally upon us? September and October will be new operating systems galore with the debut of Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, and Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. It seems mass shrink-wrapping has already begun on all three of them. I [...]
People, I just want to say, you know, can we all get along? (Rodney King on television pleading for peace, 1 May, 1992) Windows versus Mac OS X. Microsoft versus Apple. The Great Tech Divide is still prevalent in 2009 and the latest Microsoft ad campaign has once again ignited the fiery debate among geeks. [...]
All IT job interviews carry a product-specific, technical component – and rightly so. But if you are an employer, assessing a candidate solely on the grounds of specialised expertise cannot always be fair. On the other hand, relying heavily on character and cultural fit is also potentially risky because that does not necessarily gauge the [...]
Virtual machines, by definition, exist as files inside a physical computer. They live on the file system just like any other movie clips or text documents do, except VM’s happen to be self-contained machines of their own. As such, managing virtual machines is both remarkably similar and fundamentally different to managing physical machines. While Part [...]
Part 1 covered the preparatory steps and considerations for provisioning Windows virtual machines. Now let’s look at some of the best practices for keeping VM’s in good shape once they have been created and deployed. You may notice that what’s discussed here is very much applicable to maintaining Windows machines in general, not just virtual [...]
In continuation of my earlier post regarding setting up a SharePoint lab with virtual machines, here I have put together a collection of awareness notes and best practices for dealing with virtual machines in general. When I say “in general,” I refer to the personal, experimental, or small-business setup for developers, engineers, and consultants who [...]