Writings on technology, cloud computing, software architecture, and anything else that interests me at the time.

All of my long-form thoughts on cloud computing, programming, gaming, and more, collected in chronological order.

2023, the warm up year.

I can honestly say that 2023 was an extremely interesting one for me in terms of both my work and how I have changed. This was only the warm up year.

The Future of Working From Home

The future of work is flexibility and I cannot wait to see what companies announce and what technology follows to support this.

Google Next 2018 Wrap Up

Over the past 7 years, I have attended many conferences such as Microsoft TechEd, Microsoft //BUILD, Amazon re:Invent and a few others; both in North America and here in Europe. This was my first big Google conference, and it won’t be my last.

WSUS Error: Unexpected Error

An unexpected error occurred. Please contact your system administrator if the problem persists.

Unleash yourself from that email

During the last six weeks I have been playing with an "auto reply" message that everyone receives when they send me an email. I did this for numerous reasons but the couple main points were.

Choosing the best Azure Data Center

Speed is obviously the number one thing you should look at when deciding where to stick your Azure services/resources. The faster the speed, the better the performance. Want to know which data center has the lowest latency from you?

Windows 8.1 "Sorry, there was a problem mounting the file" ISO issue

Quite recently, I installed the Windows 8.1 RTM version on my home PC for testing purposes which came along with my MSDN account. I must say, I am really liking the changes that Microsoft has implemented to the new operating system... from the start button making a return to the start screen changes (tile sizes, personalizing colors and themes, application docking, etc.). However, I have had a few problems...