At WordCamp Europe 2014, Yana Petrova gave a talk on a topic that is often seen as taboo - depression. Clinical depression should seek medical treatment but many people may encounter milder forms of depression occasionally. Her talk is aimed at the milder forms of depression and why IT can be a breeding ground for depression. You can watch Yana Petrova's talk embedded below … [Read more...]
Book Review: Group Policy – Fundamentals, Security, and the Managed Desktop by Jeremy Moskowitz
Group Policy - Fundamentals, Security, and the Managed Desktop by Jeremy Moskowitz is a deep-dive book specifically on the topic of Windows Group Policy. The second edition of this book covers from Windows XP to Windows 8 and Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2012. This expands from the first edition which stopped at Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2. While reading the book was … [Read more...]
Microsoft KB Support articles are blank
For the past few days, you may have run into a brick wall while searching for Support articles from Microsoft. Their Knowledge Base articles have been rendering blank pages and jumping straight to the survey to ask if you found the information useful. Even better, you might have experienced the pages timing out or returning IIS errors. After enough refreshes, the page might … [Read more...]
Put your programming skills to the challenge with Elevator Saga
A practical lesson in programming can come in the form of a game. Elevator Saga - The elevator programming game is a simple simulation of an elevator in a building responding to requests for service. There are multiple levels with increasingly different challenges. You must improve the logic employed as the challenges become more demanding, the number of elevators increase, and … [Read more...]
Microsoft shows the consumer side of Windows 10 and new hardware
Earlier today, Microsoft held a Windows 10 event to focus on the consumer side of Windows 10 and introduce some new hardware form factors. The session invited press in person to Microsoft's campus in Redmond, Washington while the rest of the world was allowed to watch the presentation over a live stream. The webcast was horribly done with regular buffering, stuttering, and … [Read more...]