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As your TFS environment grows, as well as your software stack that’s built within it, it can be easy to overlook some pretty simple things to keep performance where it needs to be. On occasion we had noticed that builds slowed down dramatically, resulting in cranky developers and dev managers.  While space on the build […]

I recently began running into a problem where my iPhone 6 wouldn’t charge reliably.  If I wiggled the cable around it would start charging, then stop again.  I tried diagnosing it by using different cables and different orientations for them, but none of the solutions were reliable. It turns out this would seem to be […]

We all should learn something new every day. Shortcut key in Apple Mail to send a message: Command-Shift-D (as in Deliver).

Yesterday was a great day.  After working for about 30 minutes I realized I wasn’t wearing my reading glasses.  While the screen wasn’t in perfect focus, it was good enough!  I worked through the whole day without glasses, only reverting to using them last night while reading on my iPad Air. Here’s the journey from […]

Some Context When I was considering Lasik, I was made aware that I might instead have to pursue PRK.  Thanks to a blog I decided that I wasn’t willing to pursue PRK if it was the only option available to me.  When I was searching for information about Lasik and the recovery time and process, almost everything […]

Google Apps Share fail. At least it fails gently instead of just blowing up. http://ow.ly/i/6xd54

Some History Any of us who are paying attention to the blogosphere and tech articles know that “smart” watches are the next “big thing”.  I won’t give a whole history of the smartwatch wars, but Microsoft seems to have tried to pioneer this with the Spot series of watches, but Pebble reignited the market in […]

Having Wi-Fi problems on your Mac running OS X Mavericks? Here’s a fix! | iMore http://ow.ly/x0mkt

MS made a huge mistake removing Search from the Microsoft Remote Desktop app. This is a really shortsighted change! https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/microsoft-remote-desktop/id715768417?mt=12