Last week I found a little gem that is too good to keep it for myself. For years, I have been using (and working with) Microsoft Azure and in all this time and it is only now that this cool website pops up! In order to better understand what I'm talking about, I need to go a little more in detail in the design process …

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This morning I saw a colleague working in Git-Bash and the good-old-fashioned "windows command line" and I thought to myself, why doesn't he "just" use Windows terminal? So, I showed him Windows Terminal and he was impressed. First thing he asked then, was if it would be possible to add Git-Bash as a tab. Wel yes, I …

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For years and years, we all have been copying an pasting stuff on our PC. Chances are real that you typically had to copy specific things over and over again and that this action cost you a lot of time. The so called "problem" was that there could be only one item stored in the clipboard and each time something was …

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Over the past few years, A lot of you all have been adopting Visual Studio Code as your primary "Code editor/workspace". One of the biggest issues that I have, is that I really love working with VSCode and here is why that is an issue for me: For the last few weeks/months, I've had to work on (remote) environments that …

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A few weeks ago, I wrote about Azure Static Web Apps and what you can do with them . Since I started using the service, I have been very happy with what it has to offer and in that is why I have decided to also start using it for other things than my personal blog. One thing that you can use it for is an easy to use, …

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Do you know the feeling when you have a lot of VS Code editors open, each pointing to its own folder, where you need to do a lot of context switching? There are several ways to find the correct VSCode window: Alt-Tab Hovering over the VS code icon in the windows taskbar ... In both cases, you have to 'hope' that you …

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Last summer I had a situation where I needed to migrate files away from a server that was at the end of it's life. The raid controller was about to give up and time was of the essence. As I had only given myself one night for the migration from the old system to the new, I wanted to make sure that I could succeed. As I …

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Hello, for the last 10 years, I have been writing on and of about my experiences on a personal site (like this one) and in that time, I have moved from platform to platform in search of the one that really fitted my needs. I must admit, the research involved and the work to getting it all up and running has been most …

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Have you ever had to to find out it there was someone connected to a given server (either directly or either through a remote connection)? I had it yesterday and it created the idea that I should be able to check this regularly (or it should be automated) to find a moment where the server can be restarted when no one …

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Apparently (& in some cases), screen sharing in Microsoft Teams/Skype4Business is not working as it should when you need to control your counterparts pc and in that case, you can resort to an alternative called "Windows remote assistant" (MSRA) which is installed by default on all windows machines... you can start it …

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From time to time you want to find out who has local admin permissions in your domain... As it is typically a bad practice to give too much permissions, you really want to be able to find out easily. In that context, I created a small PowerShell script that allows me to retrieve this info relatively easy... It produces …

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For those what it means to install RabbitMQ for local development, it typically means that you have to go through the pain of installing erlang and RabbitMQ , only to discover that something is wrong with your setup. (To given an example: the RabbitMQ management plugin is not installed by default, requiring you to do …

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From time to time it happens that you install a sql server (or SQL express) and that you forget to assign local admin permissions. When this happens, you can choose to do a reinstallation... or you can try to assign the permissions after all through a backdoor. I chose the latter! Open a cmd prompt (as admin) {% …

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A few years ago, Microsoft announced that you could upgrade your (official) windows 7 (or 8) installation to windows 10 and that this could be done for free! The reasons for this move are outside of this post, but the idea is that this offer was only limited in time and the free upgrade supposedly ended in July of …

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