MBA Admission Lessons
I hardly ever write about my personal life, but this time I feel like sharing one of my recent experiences. Last week I got accepted into the MBA program at Rotman School of Management (University of...
View ArticleMoving Browser Cache Folder in IE, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, and Safari
Having recently replaced OS partition hard-drives with solid-state drives on my desktop and two laptops, I decided to tweak a few settings on my Windows in order to reduce the number of unnecessary...
View ArticleMoving SharePoint 2010 Log and Index Locations
There are two hard-drive locations on a SharePoint server (with enabled search indexing) that are in constant use and often require significant space – log files and index files folders. Log files...
View ArticleVMware Performance Enhancing Tweaks (Over-the-Counter Solutions)
I have been using VMware virtualization for quite a few years now, and even though it is generally fast and reliable virtualization platform, it does require some extra tuning to improve its...
View ArticleMy Top 5 Freeware Tools
It has been more a year of a long online silence since I wrote the last blog post. Pursuing MBA degree while working full-time in consulting turned out to be a lot more challenging and time-consuming...
View ArticleBackup, Restore, Migration in SharePoint 2013
SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013 Migration Migration process of SharePoint 2010 sites to 2013 is relatively straightforward, but requires some preliminary work done in SharePoint 2010 environment:...
View ArticleSharePoint 2013 Navigation and Mobile Devices
SharePoint 2010 and 2013 navigation unfortunately has never been designed as mobile- or touch-friendly. Top menu’s “mouse hover” effect provides serious interaction challenges when your submenus also...
View ArticleC/C++ Calling Convention
There has been a number of changes in the past couple of years in the calling conventions of C/C++ code. The processors become a lot more powerful and provide a larger number of available registers,...
View ArticleSQL Client Configuration
There is a great deal of MSDN articles dedicated to describing network communication protocols and how to configure client network configuration for SQL server (Client Network Configuration, Choosing a...
View ArticleR and Power BI Working Together
Microsoft recently introduced R integration capabilities in its Power BI offering stack (still in beta preview at the time of writing), and it is quite impressive. In order to get started with R and...
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