Recension Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind Thought-provoking and eye-opening book about the origin, the evolution and destructive nature of homo sapiens. However there seems to be hope of improvement. Or the danger of spreading further to other planets.
Windows Using OpenVPN connections via Windows Task Scheduler There might be scenarios where you need a VPN connection on demand and for a limited time only.
Community GDE SSA Summit 2022 Did you ever hear about the Google Developers Expert (GDE) Summit in the Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) region? No? Well, then let me tell you it was the same experience for me.
Development Installing SQL Server 2019 and tools on Ubuntu 20.04 Up to date, complete tutorial on how to install SQL Server 2019, the command-line tools, and alternatives to SQL Server Management Studio on Ubuntu 20.04.
Andela GADS 2020 - Spotlight Following my recent announcement of being a GDE for Cloud Emem Jonah got in touch with a few questions about what motivates me to be a software developer.
Community How did we run the Virtual Developers Conference 2020? The article describes in more detail the technical consideration and configuration to prepare and operate the live streams of the Virtual Developers Conference.
Windows Noise Cancelling on Windows 10 Working from home (WFH) with the children most of the time around me it would be a challenge to use an "open" mic during conference calls on Microsoft Teams or Google Meet. Hence my search for a noise reduction solution that would allow me to work comfortable.
Community Azure DEV Meetup Munich While I was on a business trip to Germany back in February I thought that it might be a good idea to check out some of the local user groups. Azure DEV Meetup Munich offered an interesting topic not far from the hotel I stayed.
Development Enable authentication in your instance of Jitsi Meet The second article on Jitsi Meet describes how to enable authentication to avoid Zoom-bombing and unwanted raiding of your video conferences.
Development Install Jitsi Meet on Compute Engine (GCP) This first article of a series on Jitsi Meet describes the basic installation of an instance on the Google Cloud Platform.
Community Why we decided to postpone Developers Conference 2020 Brief inside view into the thought process behind the decision to postpone the most important IT event in Mauritius.
Development Getting Started with SQL Server on GCP My impression of Cloud SQL for SQL Server is quite positive. I like the idea to run SQL Server databases on GCP together with other services like Compute Engine, App Engine, Kubernetes Engine, or even BigQuery to analyse data.
