To enhance productivity in Teams, utilize three key hacks: adopt slash commands and keyboard shortcuts to minimize clicking, pop-out chats and meetings for better organization, and filter notifications to reduce distractions. By implementing these strategies, users can effectively manage time and streamline their workflow, overcoming the platform’s inherent sluggishness. Continue reading →

The enhanced session mode offers improved performance, hardware utilization, and features like copy & paste in the VM. To enable this in Ubuntu (or other OS), specific configurations and software installations are needed. Steps include VM setup, Ubuntu installation, XRDP & XORGXRDP installation, and configuring the VM server for enhanced session mode. Continue reading →

The next thing I wanted setup for my development workspace is a DataStax Enterprise Cluster. This will give me all of the Apache Cassandra database features plus a lot of additional features around search, OpsCenter, analytics, and more. I’ll elaborate on that in some future posts. For now, let’s get an image built we can... Continue reading →

Prerequisites before all of this. Have a basic understanding of how to use Terraform and what it does. This is covered pretty well in the Hashicorp Docs here (single page read <5 minutes) and if you have a LinkedIn Learning account check out my Terraform course “Learning Terraform“. Beyond that some basic CLI/terminal knowledge, understand... Continue reading →

Recently a whole slew of people got hired at Microsoft. Many of us have taken notice. It’s left a lot of people with questions like… Continue reading →