I enjoy travelling and when I travel I use my Iphone seven to take photos. I only have 32 G of storage and as such I run out of storage really fast. I am not a big fan of downloading it to my computer and transferring to my external drive. I was looking for affordable cloud storage option. While researching I came across Amazon Prime Unlimited Storage Plan. If you pay for prime you get unlimited photo storage with amazon…
I work in Banking Technology. As we change how we build software systems there are multiple buzz words that are thrown around. One common one is SaaS . SaaS – stands for software as a service. In the olden days software companies sold you their software on a disc and you paid for a one time use. In the last decade companies have changed the method to selling your their software product on a monthly basis ( as a service )…
The last two days I attended a Manager’s offsite at my company and one of the things I learned on my offsite was that there is significant demand for employees in the cyber security space. I have a lot of young cousins who are graduating university , based on what I heard, I was recommending this field to them as possible career path. If I was in their role — I would take some courses or a certification and than…
I am usually a very happy person and I tend to find happiness in most experiences. Lately I am so drained from work and other demands on my time that I can’t even seem to enjoy the simple things I used to enjoy ! One of my favorite things to do is to write about my travel – when I tried to do that today I couldn’t bring myself to write ! I am not a fan of this place…
I recently bought Amazon Echo ! I am based out of a Toronto, Canada. I could not find Amazon Alexa App on the Canadian App Store ! You need that app in order to setup Alexa. I searched the internet on how do I go about switching to the US App store so that I can download Alexa and complete my Amazon Echo setup ! Most of the articles I found on the internet was outdated ( the steps described…
Eric Ligman – A Director @ Microsoft in Sales posts links to free ebooks once a year. I found the list of books to be useful. I downloaded books about the Cloud , Micro services, Azure , Excel and SQL . From his post ” Giving Away MILLIONS of FREE Microsoft eBooks again, including: Windows 10, Office 365, Office 2016, Power BI, Azure, Windows 8.1, Office 2013, SharePoint 2016, SharePoint 2013, Dynamics CRM, PowerShell, Exchange Server, System Center, Cloud, SQL…
Below is a summary of various tech podcasts one of my co-workers shared. I watch youtube videos during my commute – a tech podcast is also a good idea ! The Changelog A weekly discussion and interview show featuring a wide range of open-source development tools and development-related news. The programme has a heavy focus on web development, from Ruby and node.js to JavaScript and CSS, as well as covering a broad array of tools, ranging from Git to npm….
A few months ago I started looking at Delphix for using it for data masking between our production and Development/QA environments. The more I learned about Delphix, the more I realized the kind of impact it can have for Development/QA in addition to data masking. These are some of the common tasks we do in Development/QA that I felt Delphix might be able to help with: Faster Data Refreshes – Maintain versioned compressed copies of prod database that can be refreshed…
I was watching a documentary on Netflix called ‘Rise of the Hackers’ , and came across this engineered computer virus called stuxnet. It was designed to slow down Iran’s nuclear weapon development. I found the design of the virus to be fascinating. Take a look if you guys have time ! If you dont have Netflix, this article is a good read as well. http://www.wired.com/2014/11/countdown-to-zero-day-stuxnet/ The virus is designed to infect PLCs ( Programmable Logic controllers ) . Everything from…