If your Surface Book loses it’s keyboard and trackpad – try removing KB4074588 update

My Surface Book (gen 1) recently did updates and then a day or so later the keyboard and trackpad mysteriously...

Speaking at PASS Summit and why you need to think about submitting….

This post is about the honor and experience of speaking at PASS Summit not once (2016) but twice (2017).
I recently...

Why I am leaving a role/company I loved

This non-technical post is about why I am leaving a technical company after working there for 17 + years.
If you are...

Changing TFS to use HTTPS? — update your agent settings too….

This blog post is about Team Foundation Server (TFS) and is about the situation where you need remember to update...

SSRS won’t bind HTTPS to new certificate — “We are unable to create the certificate binding”

This blog post is around the situation where you have SSRS setup to use HTTPS and thus using a certificate...

How the gym made me a better database bloke…..

A blog post about how many reverse bicep curls or Romanian DeadLiftsI can do…? As Rob Farley (t | b | w)...

SQL Server 2017 — change the tag for your docker images

Firstly:

SQL Server 2017 is now officially released!
I have been using SQL Server 2017 running on Linux for a while now...

Want to know what software is running on the VSTS Hosted Agent? Go here….

This is related to my previous post about installing things on my Private-Hosted agent that I use for my VSTS...

When upgrading a Visual Studio project — you need to upgrade your TFS/VSTS Agent

This post is linked to my post about hosting VSTS private agents . I had recently upgraded my Visual Studio environment...

DevOPs is not just about the latest & greatest tools

I’m a technical guy.
Thus – I love tools. They make stuff go.
Tools are great.
Except – as I wrote in my other post...