Jason Haley

Ramblings from an Independent Consultant

PC Build 2025

On July 3, I was greeted by the following image - reminding me I needed to get new hardware … by October 14, 2025. Of course it wasn’t a surprise, I knew I needed to replace it for the past year or so but it seems there is never a good time to configure a brand new desktop. Until this month when my project work happened to end mid-month - giving me a couple of weeks between projects … so last week I ordered the parts. NOTE: Why build a PC and not just buy one? Personal preference - I honestly haven’t even looked at Dell or any other prebuilt PCs this time around, I just like the idea of knowing how the thing is put together and configured (even though I have a history of having to assemble things twice before getting it right). About the retiring PC (2014 PC) I …

What I'm using to stay up to date on Azure news

Happy New Year! Yeah, yeah I know - January is almost over already. You aren’t tired and letting up on your resolutions yet are you? I know sometimes when I start a new year with a plan to make lots of changes and to be focused on a new year full of goals that really interest me … I start to run out of gas around the end of week 3. Well it is now the beginning of week 4 - time to get back to it! Reread you goals and for those goals that have to do with keeping up to date and learning more about Azure - here are some resources for you that I just recently discovered. We have a “pandemic puppy”, whose name is Duncan (he is the one in the photo above) and I now have a reason to take a drive and go on a walk every morning. The drive is key - about 30 minutes each way - it …