I’m excited to announce that I will be speaking at PSDayUK on Friday, March 3rd 2023! My colleague James Ruskin and I will be giving a talk titled “Streamlining Software Management with Chocolatey.”

Chocolatey recently released a new version of the Package Moderation Services sandbox, and it got me thinking. How can I use it in VMware Workstation?

I don’t use VirtualBox, but I wanted to use the box that they created. So, I decided to look into converting the Vagrant VirtualBox box for use in VMware Workstation and Fusion and thus, this guide was born!

To keep a record of changes in my office, I wrote the first post about my office setup in January 2022. It’s now 2023 (Happy New Year!) and that means an update!

I need a new way to keep control of my ever-growing, ever-sprawling, e-book collection. Local files and folders has got me to a stage where it’s getting kinda messy and difficult to manage. Calibre seems to be the only show in town for managing, converting and keeping track of all of your e-books. So I thought I’d give it a try.

First step is first; installing the desktop application on my computer using Chocolatey choco install calibre. I then ran the application which started the configuration wizard, but the first page stopped me.

I am delighted to be recognised as a Microsoft Certified Trainer for the third year in a row!

In my last post I spoke about my delight at being selected to speak at PowerShell Conference Europe 2022. I don’t usually do a post-event write-up but this year, this event, was special. And I wanted to say a few things about it.

The first year of PackagingCon was 2021 and I had the pleasure of speaking! First year, and I was there.

Really happy to introduce the concept of a Windows package manager, with my talk titled What Is Chocolatey, The Package Manager For Windows? to a predominantly Linux and Mac audience.