Ken Adams

Apple’s New Beasts – M1 Pro & M1 Max – Arrive Oct 26

October 21, 2021
By Ken Adams

Commentary

The BEASTS arrive Tue, Oct 26 !!! Check out Apple's BEAST Video & Music. It's totally bad ass...

Apple, Apple Silicon, Intel, Mac

Scaled Agile – SAFe Backlog & Roles Simplified

July 22, 2021
By Ken Adams

Agile

SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) is complex and to understand how best to implement SAFe, you need to break it down into smaller pieces. In this article I'll breakdown some of the essential pieces of SAFe, the backlog hierarchy and roles.

Agile, Agile: Scaling, SAFe

macOS Monterey Beta Works on VMware Fusion for Mac

July 6, 2021
By Ken Adams

Engineering

Successfully tested the macOS Monterey Public Beta on VMware Fusion for Mac, and it works. Even though VMware Fusion is not officially supporting it yet. Here's how.

Apple, macOS, VMware

Windows 11 Preview Works on VMware Fusion for Mac

July 6, 2021
By Ken Adams

Engineering

Successfully tested the Windows 11 Insider Preview on VMware Fusion for Mac, and it works. Even though VMware Fusion is not officially supporting it yet. Here's how.

Apple, macOS, Microsoft, VMware, Windows

Apple’s New Xcode Cloud Is Big – Adds Azure DevOps & Atlassian Features

July 1, 2021
By Ken Adams

Engineering

Apple's new Xcode Cloud is a big deal and adds CI/CD features right into Xcode. In typical Apple style, they innovated in some big ways. And here's a quick tool comparison with Microsoft and Atlassian.

Apple, Azure DevOps/VSTS, CI/CD, DevOps, Jira

Microsoft Held A Windows 11 Announcement Event And…Well…So That Happened

June 27, 2021
By Ken Adams

Commentary, Engineering

Short on new features, light on tech details, no pricing, no specifics on availability, and oh yeah, they lied and exaggerated a lot. But... it's still good to finally see a new Windows version after 6 friggin' years.

Microsoft, Windows

Jira & Confluence Server License Sales ENDS Forever on Feb 2nd

February 1, 2021
By Ken Adams

Agile, Commentary, Jira/Azure DevOps/VSTS

Atlassian ENDS the sale of Jira & Confluence server licenses forever on Feb 2nd, 2021. They want everyone to move to the cloud. So get yours before they're gone.

Agile, Confluence, Jira

Apple Silicon M1 Mac’s Big Sur Problems FIXED !!!

December 21, 2020
By Ken Adams

Commentary

The major problems that I reported a week ago have been fixed by the Big Sur 11.1 update - no problems after running the update for a week.

Apple, Apple Silicon, Mac, macOS

Apple Silicon M1 Mac’s BIG, Big Sur Problems !!!

December 15, 2020
By Ken Adams

Commentary

Apple Silicon M1 Macs are having some BIG, Big Sur Problems !!! Huge memory management bugs in macOS Big Sur are crashing my new M1 MacBook Air and the 2019 Intel MacBook Air and causing serious performance problems.

Apple, Apple Silicon, Mac, macOS

Apple Silicon M1 MacBook Air – Benchmarks & First Impressions

November 17, 2020
By Ken Adams

Commentary, Reviews

My brand new Apple Silicon M1 based MacBook Air has arrived, and YUP, it's screamin' fast. Here are some benchmark comparisons and first impressions. Bottom line: M1 crushes Intel. By like, a huge HUGE margin.

Apple, Apple Silicon, Intel, Mac

Apple Silicon M1 Macs – More Smokin’ Benchmarks

November 16, 2020
By Ken Adams

Commentary

Apple Silicon M1 Macs officially start to arrive Tue, Nov 16 but new crazy fast benchmarks keep on comin'. After my M1 MacBook Air arrives, I'll publish my first impressions and benchmarks.

Apple, Apple Silicon, Intel, Mac

Apple Silicon M1 Chip Smokes Intel Core i9 Processor

November 12, 2020
By Ken Adams

Commentary

Benchmarks for the Apple Silicon M1 Chip are already smoking Intel's Core i9 processor, and the new M1 Macs haven't even shipped yet. In July the Mac Dev Kit with a prototype Apple Silicon A12Z was already shown to beat an Intel i7 and there is more smokin' to come.

Apple, Apple Silicon, Intel, Mac

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