January Month End Post-internet links of interest

Hi Guys,

Welcome back, i enjoyed my vacation a lot and spend lots of time with my family. I need this one week vacation desperately to get refreshed. Although weather conditions in north india are not as pleasant as in bangalore, but still it was really good experience. (Attached is pic of my son in TUX)

So without further adieu, here comes some interesting posts from blogosphere:-

1) Free Ebooks from Microsoft press:-

http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/ebooks#?fbid=Q9bvOihADCL

2)Late Bruce Lee's best productivity tips:-

http://lifehacker.com/bruce-lees-best-productivity-tricks-1511023470

3)SSD comparison sheets- comes always handy:-

http://codex.architecting.it/index.php/Solid_State_Arrays_Features_Comparison

4)Amazing story-deep dive into hacking- a good read :-

http://gizmodo.com/how-i-lost-my-50-000-twitter-username-1511578384/@whitsongordon

5)Another new poster from Microsoft windows-server-2012-r2-private-cloud-storage-and-virtualization:-

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2014/01/27/new-poster-windows-server-2012-r2-private-cloud-storage-and-virtualization.aspx

6)Another great post on making automated nested ESXi vApp:-

http://www.v-front.de/2014/01/building-self-configuring-nested-esxi.html

7)Some hidden powershell Gems:-

http://mikefrobbins.com/2014/01/23/powershell-tip-from-the-head-coach-of-the-2014-winter-scripting-games-design-for-performance-and-efficiency/

8)Deep Dive into VMware Tools install in ESXi 5.5

http://www.v-front.de/2014/02/an-analysis-of-vsphere-55-vmware-tools.html

Have a good day..keep reading..