General

**Back in 2011 when I was 17 years old I started with my studies on ‘senior secondary vocational education’ (MBO). This was the first time I fell in love with technology. The more time I spent on training and certifications, the more exemptions I received from teachers. After getting my diploma, I wanted to start working with all the new technologies in enterprise environments & apply what I learned throughout my certification journey. I started to work at Avanade but always with the dream to pursue my bachelor’s degree. ...

Today I’m happy to tell you that my blog is now on the Cloudenius.com domain! Switching again? Less than a year ago, I changed the domain name of the blog from jvrtech.net to jvr.cloud. Unfortunately the domain name (jvr.cloud) has never been greatly accepted by Google. Searching for jvr cloud shows the JVR Cloud iOS app which hasn’t been updated for a while: Searching for jvr.cloud gave the following search results, which are better but still not good: ...

Happy New Year all! A new workplace is a great way to start the new year. As some of you may know, I’ve moved to a new apartment in 2016. My new apartment has a quite large living room but no extra room for a workplace. I work full time at Avanade and I like to work from home every now and then. I’m also aiming on finishing my Bachelor studies in Q1 2019, so all this requires a good workplace. ...

Frequent visitors of my blog may have noticed that the domain name of the blog has changed from jvrtech.net to jvr.cloud. You can still reach my blog on jvrtech.net, but within a couple of years, that redirect may disappear. .Cloud TLD Most of my short nicknames or my full name aren’t available anymore on the TLDs like .com, .net or .org. When the .cloud TLD was introduced, I saw an opportunity to buy this very short domain name. Tech in a domain name tells people that it has something to do with technology which I like, but Cloud will hopefully do that too. Thank you for visiting my blog! Cheers, Jean-Paul

Recently I bought a new soundbar for my Samsung television. I connected it with TOSLINK/SPDIF (digital audio) to my Samsung television. I didn’t like using the second remote control of the soundbar, so I used the “Learn” functionality from Yamaha to ’learn’ the volume and power functions of my Samsung remote control. After a quick setup I found out that - of course - when you use the television remote to control the volume, both the television and soundbar will adjust to this. ...

2016 has been an amazing year for me. One of the biggest highlights was Microsoft Ignite in Atlanta. With a group of 5 Avanade people we went to the conference to find out where Microsoft was working on for the last couple of months. I’m still convinced that I gain most knowledge on conferences like Ignite, because people from Microsoft present the latest innovations. Also a lot of features are planned to go Generally Available (GA) during events like this. I want to thank Avanade for this fantastic opportunity. ...

I’m so happy to tell you that I’m one of the 5 people from Avanade Netherlands that will attend Microsoft Ignite in Atlanta this year! We are all really excited as this is the first time that we attend a big conference like Ignite. Last year I followed a lot of online presentations from home, and the high quality of the presentations makes this the best Microsoft event of the world. ...

I’ve requested this feature with many more WordPress Bloggers. Thank you WordPress!

I updated my Dell Latitude E6540 BIOS to A10 today. After updating, the screen stays black after rebooting. If you reboot your PC, your resolution has changed and the drivers are not working anymore. Opening the AMD Catalyst Control Center gives the error “AMD drivers are not functioning properly”. Solution: go to the Dell website. Click the Support page and type your Service Tag. Download the newest AMD and Intel graphics drivers. I installed the AMD driver after installing the Intel driver. You don’t have to delete the old driver. Reboot after installing the 2 drivers. Your notebook should work as before.

A customer asked me to define the customer’s email address in the order confirmation emails, sent out by Magento. You will have to edit or create a new template and add this shortcode:``` {{htmlescape var=$order.getCustomerEmail()}}