MrTechGadget: pseudorandom posts about my varied interests
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Upgrading Standing Desk Controls
16 months ago I decided to upgrade my home office with a dedicated desk for work from home and got a amazing deal on a Flexispot Standing Desk on Amazon. It was very helpful for me to have a dedicated space that was separated from my personal computing setup. It really allows me to focus…
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VMworld 2018
I had the privilege to speak at VMworld today, thanks to @VMwareCode They have live streamed all of the talks on Facebook live, if you like my talk I encourage you to visit their page and https://code.vmware.com for more nerdy goodness. Below is just my talk extracted out. Hope you enjoy, if you have any questions…
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My first public app
I have been working on some sample code for AppConfig using the Ionic Framework and finally have a working product to share with the community. It is my hope that this will spur on many projects to incorporate AppConfig settings into their EMM delivered apps. My work consists of two parts: A cordova plugin that…
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A new adventure
I have recently begun working on a development project to give back to the community. I will post more about it as it matures, but the goal is to provide easy to use sample code for creating Ionic applications that utilize managed configuration settings conforming to AppConfig guidelines. The project is at my github page, https://github.com/audioeng/ionic-appconfig
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Sad state of Star Wars
Mr. Lucas, this is EXACTLY what all of us Star Wars fans were afraid would happen when you sold the rights to Disney… Chipmunk Ewoks Disney Cartoon figurines Battle of Endor Darth Donald? Wizard’s Apprentice Jedi Collectible Disney Cartoonized figurines Walked through the Disney store shaking my head, because my kids will not know the…
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MacBook Pro SSD Upgrade
Tonight I opened up my wife’s Mid2009 MacBook Pro 13″ to upgrade the stock 5400 rpm 160GB Hitachi hard drive with a brand new Samsung 840 256GB SSD, capable of 96,000 IOPS. This is also my first Internet based reinstall of Mountain Lion, so here is my experience as I complete this. Needless to say,…
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Samsung Note 8.0
I picked up the Galaxy Note 8.0 last week. Although I was disappointed that this was the Wi-Fi only 16GB model and not the HSPA+ model with which you can use as a full cell phone, I have been quite pleased with the Note 8.0 so far. There are some great features like the dedicated…