Techno Security East: Quantum Computing Slides
I always try and ensure that I post my slides to my talks here on my blog. Here are the slides that I used for my Quantum Computing and...
2025-06-05
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Speaking at the TechnoSecurity and Digital Forensics East Conference
The Techno Security & Digital Forensics Conference (East) runs from June 3-5, 2025, this year in Wilmington, NC. I'll be speaking on Thursday, June 5, from 11:30 AM -12:20...
2025-05-26
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On “Leisure Crafting”
I wrote not too long ago about planning out downtime, but I found a great article from the Harvard Business Review about the importance of doing so. The article...
2025-05-06
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Preparing for the TOGAF 9 Certified Exam
Now that I’ve completed both TOGAF 9 tests, I am putting up a couple of quick posts on how I prepared for these Enterprise Architecture exams.
2025-05-05
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Preparing for the TOGAF 9 Foundation Exam
Now that I've completed both TOGAF 9 tests, I am putting up a couple of quick posts on how I prepared for these Enterprise Architecture exams.
2025-05-02
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Improving Our Conversations
If we aren't having the same conversation, we aren't going to be heard. That's what Charles Duhigg, author of The Power of Habit, covered in the following TED talk:
2025-04-18 (first published: 2025-03-31)
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Who are you? Building an identity map.
I admit that until I read the article, Who are you as a Leader?, I had never heard of an identity map. It's a pretty simply thing: mapping all...
2025-04-11 (first published: 2025-04-01)
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Focus on Core Skills
Core skills depends on the position, but the point is that ensuring you have a strong foundational base for your chosen area is better than reaching for emerging skills.
2025-03-28
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Enterprise Digital Exhaust
Digital exhaust, or data exhaust, is the information you generate as you interact digitally. We've typically thought of this in terms of tracking cookies and the like, but it...
2025-03-07 (first published: 2025-02-25)
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Have a Plan for Your Personal Downtime
Most of us know that spending a lot of time on social media and surfing the web isn't good for us, but we still do it. Why? Because it...
2025-01-17 (first published: 2025-01-07)
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Blogs
AI: Blog a Day – Day 3: LLM Models – Open Source vs Closed Source
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 2 , we learned introduction on Generative AI and Agentic AI,...
How to Parameterize Fabric Linked Services in Azure Data Factory for Azure Devops Deployment
Quite the title, so let me set the stage first. You have an Azure...
Deployment Pipelines in Fabric – What Are They?
By HeyMo0sh
In the realm of software development and content creation, the deployment pipeline serves as...
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A Quick Restore
While doing some testing of an application, I wanted to reset my environment after doing some testing with this code:
USE DNRTest BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO /* Bunch of stuff tested here */RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACEWhat happens if this runs, assuming the "bunch of stuff" isn't anything affecting the instance. See possible answers