Improving SharePoint 2013 VM Performances

I am always trying to get the best performances for my development environments. With the 2013 version of SharePoint, VM performances has become a real concern.



I have previously published a complete step by step installation guide for a SharePoint 2013 development environment that take into account this performances concern.

(I will have to update it especially regarding the action of stopping the Distributed Cache service.)



In this previous post I was writing that I started using an SSD drive. I found at this time a not so expensive SSD Kingson HyperX of 120 Go (around 80 canadian dollars one year ago if I remember well).

The only drawback of this item was that it was not possible to use an eSATA connection to plug to the computer.

I can tell you I have been intensively using this SSD for 9 months and I am very happy of its performances and the benefits in matter of time saved while developping solutions for my customers.



Yesterday, I decided to take the plunge and invest in a new SSD with an external eSATA connector.

First of all, it is very difficult (at least in Paris, France) to find this in the form of an unique item to buy. Usually, you will have to buy an SSD plus an eSATA box as a separated item to buy.



That's what I bought :



An Intel SSD 335 series of 180 GB (I choosed this one because of the best performances in matter of disk writing).



An Icy Box IB-20 Series

for an amount of 193 euros (256.40 US Dollar) at LDLC.com

I loved the Icy Box, all is included (cables and a little iron tool to open the box).



I took me between 15 and 30 minutes to get the disk available to plug to the computer.



I had of course to format the disk. And what a good surprise, I could copy a VM of 40 Go from my computer on my new external disk in 6 minutes!!!



Enjoy!!!

How to Protect Your Twitter Account from Targeted Phishing Attacks

The Syrian Electronic Army, a hacking collective which seems to be pro-Syrian government, has been on a Twitter hacking roll lately. They’ve managed to compromise the accounts of many major news outlets, notably the Twitter account of the Associated Press, the Guardian, E! The compromised accounts were then used to spread

Android MODs and Kernel's - my experience

For a while I had been tempted to try a different mod from the stock TouchWiz for the Samsung Galaxy S3. My biggest issue was to ensure that while modding the phone, I don't lose any of my data. Thankfully, with so many apps being completely cloud-based, this risk becomes less and less as time goes by.

Anyway, after taking a huge number of different backups, I went for my first MOD. Slimbean. I

What the hack?

The past few months have been characterised by a number of high-profile hack attacks. What the hack is going on? (Pardon the pun!) Quite a few things actually:

1. Facebook and Apple®

Two of the most recent high profile hacks were those targeting Facebook and Apple employees. Although it has been reported as a hack, it looks more like a malware attack.



The result? Those computers that had

The Harlem Shake and the effects on your organization

The latest craze to go viral on the web is the dance song Harlem Shake, with hundreds, if not thousands of people, gathering in costume to do ‘the shake’ in every conceivable space.



Harlem Shake follows hot on the heels of another Internet ‘sensation’ – Gangnam Style; a song and dance routine that racked up over one billion hits on YouTube.



Although Gangnam Style has spawned hundreds of

The geek that I am ...

Just in case you were wondering ... if you try to put   in your blog title, it's not going to work. To fix that just put in the HTML equivalent :) i.e. & g t ; and  & l t ;







Also, if you planned to post XML in your blog,

Guess who's back?

Hello there, it's been awhile. A while back I had changed jobs and never actually updated this blog any longer. Going to repurpose this blog to my current tech interests, i.e. web security, product management, android stuff and whatever the heck else I stumble upon ...