I’ve been an iOS user ever since I got my first smartphone in 2008, an iPhone 3G. I had paid just $99 for the brand new iPhone, on contract with AT&T. And I was completely blown away. Since then I’ve skeptically but faithfully upgraded my iPhone over the years and my ‘latest’ iPhone is a…
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Running Windows 10 on an older Macbook Pro
There are the steps I took to get Windows 10 on my spare mid-2009 15″ Macbook Pro. Why? Because science! And because I like Windows 10 and because Apple stopped OS support on that machine sometime back. But mostly because I wanted to learn a bit more about UEFI systems and their boot-up sequence. Resulting…
Getting IPv6 working with Time Warner Cable
I needed to connect my home network to another non-critical IPv6 network, so wanted all the desired devices to be on the (single) public IPv6 network. I’ve got Time Warner Cable (TWC) at and my setup is as follows: First thing I noticed was that my router didn’t have an IPv6 address, so I called…
The treadmill desk experiment
In recent years, I’ve been sitting at my desk for over 12 hours a day (and night). That’s a lot of time that I am NOT active – a big change from my daily gym routine from earlier. So when I came across a lot of internet buzz on standing desks and saw senator Janel…
Tablet wars: iPad Air vs Surface 2 (and Lumia 2520)
Background I’ve been a long time Apple consumer but recently sold my iPad (1st version, 32GB, WiFi only) which I had bought sometime in mid-2010. It had been a speedy device when I bought it but over the years of upgrades, it had DRAMATICALLY slowed down. Simple stuff like opening the browser or settings app…
Windows 8: My impressions
So Windows 8 has been out for a few months. I’ve been using it on my work laptop (a Macbook Pro Retina) since Q3’12 when Microsoft released it to it’s MSDN partners. Investamatic is an MSDN, BizSpark and BizsparkPlus partner with Microsoft, so I got an early start. This is just a quick dump of…
Comparing different serializers
If you know what a “serializer” is, skip the introduction! Introduction I’ve decided to also blog about technical issues my engineers and I run into during the developement of Investamatic.com. It’s a good way to document what worked while simultaneously sharing the learning experience with others. Today’s issue is serialization. “Serializers” are commonly required when…
Remotely debugging a Windows Azure webrole via Visual Studio Debugger
UPDATE: Even after 3 years this is still popping up on Google’s first page results, so worth mentioning Visual Studio makes this a LOT easier now. Original post below. Warning: This is a highly technical post and beyond the first two paragraphs requires a deep understanding of cloud web engineering (especially Microsoft Azure)! This is…
Amazon’s cloud computing platform as a disruptive technology
You may have heard about Amazon’s Elastic Cloud Computing platform. It’s a way to run virtual computers in the cloud and it’s changing the way a lot of IT business operate. Virtual machines? In a cloud? Huh? Ok, they sound confusing for the non-technical folks. However, it’s actually straight forward. For the savvy who already…
Virtual machine performance for software development
I needed a mobile development station in case I needed to jump into code along with my other engineers. I’ve always preferred creating software on a machine with a large keyboard, a full sized mouse and a large screen. However, at present, I need mobility. My laptop is a 2008 Aluminum Core2Due MacBook and for…