Monthly Archives: April 2018
Azure Service Bus, Cheaper By The Hour
A new announcement from Microsoft shows how the billing for Azure Service Bus is changing from daily and monthly to hourly billing for standard and premium tiers; thus moving them closer to a usage model that closes the pricing gap between constantly used resources and rarely used resources. One thing I’ve always loved about Microsoft…
An Apple A Day – Day 29
Summit Meeting! Haven’t really gotten to put my iDevices through the paces on the road so this is exciting to be able to do before the end of the road (in the series) so to speak. I also picked up a couple of things off Amazon to make life a little easier. First, I bought a Lightning…
An Apple A Day – Day 28
Coming to the End of the Beginning of my Journey Today was fun and interesting as I had to visit the Microsoft office and of course, I’m the only guy with an Apple. I’m asked repeatedly by everyone I encounter the question I always love answering. Why? I take pleasure in every interaction as one who has…
Open Source DevOps PowerShell Module
There’s a growing need for automation to implement skeleton projects for DevOps deployments and application migrations. It requires a fair amount of finesse and some scripting magic. So for this need, I created the start of a small PowerShell module to help solve that problem. The Pledge A colleague a while back contacted me and…
An Apple A Day – Day 27
Reflections Today was a day of reflection of the journey and thinking back to some of the challenges I had when I began and some of the things I’ve discovered for better or for worse in the last few weeks using this new platform. I wish I had been more understanding and open-minded about trying…
An Apple A Day – Day 26
Pokemon Go! Spent most of the day Pokemon hunting with the wife accidentally as we had actually gone out to buy a large amount of copper pipe to build a closet shelving system for her. The Apple watch experience, as always, was second to none for it’s Pokemon Go companion app that allows you to…
An Apple A Day – Day 25
iPad & Microsoft Global Azure Boot Camp Today is the day! Time to go full on Live at a huge event and see how this new platform performs. Armed with an iPad, AppleTV, and Logitech Spotlight I am poised and ready to deliver an exceptional experience using my new tools of the trade and for…
2018 – Azure Global Bootcamp Survey Results
SURVEY OVERVIEW SURVEY RESPONSE SUMMARY
An Apple A Day – Day 24
It’s almost go time! Presentations: I updated the PowerPoint presentation as if it has been edited in desktop Powerpoint and was unprepared when I was met with having to save it again as iPad PowerPoint. Haven’t quite figured out why this is a problem, but the presentation was negligible and worked the same regardless. I also decided…
ARM Templates For MAC – A Call For Feature Parity
Call To Action Come one, come all. We are rallying for Microsoft to add features to allow Mac users of Visual Studio 2017 and onward to install the Azure SDK installation bundled with PowerShell so Mac users will be able to deploy ARM templates as they would in Windows. The Case For those of you…
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