Plex Server Direct Connectivity Checklist
Plex Media Server can be a pain in the neck to get fully working with a direct connection between your clients, whether on your local network or remote, and your… Read more »
Category: software
How to Bend Plex to Your Will to Handle Complex Libraries Without Losing Your Mind
It’s very easy to get started with Plex to handle a simple movie or TV show collection, but as you add different types of content and grow your libraries, it… Read more »
How To Use Live Connection Reports Across Workspaces with #PowerBI
Fulfilling a long-standing request to make it easier to administrate Power BI content, it is now possible to use a dataset from one app workspace as the source for a… Read more »
The Legend in Power BI Maps: When to Call ‘Feature Complete’?
I’ve spent countless hours comparing features in the various map visuals available for Microsoft Power BI. Each has their strengths and weaknesses and there is not a single option that… Read more »
Power BI: The Missing Productivity Features
These past couple of years I’ve worked extensively with Microsoft Power BI, which in many ways is “the next Excel”, but because it is much more recent, it still has… Read more »
Microsoft Outlook As A Platform, Take 2: From the Desktop to the Cloud
This 2004 entry was updated from the 2016-18 vantage point. If there’s an area where the shift from client-server to the cloud is most dramatic, this is it! Keep reading… Read more »
Google Analytics Troubleshooting & Auditing Guide
Whether for my own sites or while consulting for other businesses, I’ve often run into a nagging feeling that the ubiquitous Google Analytics (GA) is not entirely properly installed, and… Read more »
Interesting Design Pattern: Content Organized by Date
I’ve noticed in several apps and sites lately that the way they organize content based on date metadata ends up being pretty convenient. What these apps have in common is that you… Read more »
Using Docker Instead of Vagrant for Web Dev on a Windows PC
Warning: this entry is pretty old, probably obsolete in many ways, and I’m not updating it as I’m now running Docker on my Synology NAS. I started using Vagrant to develop… Read more »
PhpStorm Integration & Productivity Tips for Windows-Hosted PHP Dev [Visual Guide]
Along with my recent move from Vagrant to Docker I decided to revisit a number of tooling choices that I hadn’t second-guessed in a couple of years. The best new… Read more »