Remove Yourself from an Azure Subscription It is not possible to remove yourself from a Subscription. You have to contact the Subscription owner to remove you. IMO a user should be able to remove th
My main monitor is a NEC PA322UHD and my secondary is a NEC EA275UHD. I set them both up on a new computer with a NVIDIA GeForce 745, the PA322 on DisplayPort and the EA275 on HDMI. The EA275UHD’s re
A big part of my Zero Inbox routine is to Cc myself when I want to be reminded to follow up on the mail. This is useful when you want to make sure you don’t send an email with a request from someone a
Windows Explorer doesn’t allow you to create files that start with . because it interprets that as not having a file name. On Linux/UNIX you would simply use: touch .gitignore. Windows doesn’t have
UPDATE: The Liquid Fill Gauge visual is now available to download from the Power BI Custom Visual Gallery! – In this series, we are creating a Power BI Custom Visual from an OSS d3 visualization I fou
The purpose of this post is to show you how to take an existing open source d3 visual and create a Power BI Custom Visual from it. I’ve been digging into the new Power BI Custom Visual SDK and just cr
Here are some short and sweet instructions for setting up your Raspberry Pi for Node.js dev and creating a base image that can be used over and over again. Many of the steps below are taken from the a
Here’s how to install Node.js on Raspberry Pi (originally posted as a SoF answer for Ubuntu here) Install curl sudo apt-get install curl -y Install node v4 curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_4
Here’s how to directly connect to the Event Hub that backs an IoT Hub. New Way As of 5/30/2017, you can now get the underlying Event Hub connection string by either the “Endpoints” blade or the “Opera
The Azure IoT Field Gateway SDK is a set of libraries that allow you to build a device that acts as a proxy between an individual IoT device and Azure IoT Hub. Individual IoT devices will connect to t
I just published this IFTTT (If This Than That) Recipe that will send me an email when I like a tweet. I then have an Outlook rule that flags the email so I can have a look in detail later. Click “Add
I have OpenLiveWriter on two desktops and one laptop. I sync my drafts to Dropbox. Here’s how: 1. Open Regedit 2. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\OpenLiveWriter 3. Create a new String Value Nam
I recently created a custom Fiddler extension called PowerBIFiddler. Here are a few tricks that I learned along the way. Re-use Default Fiddler Inspectors For PowerBI-Fiddler, I wanted to re-use the J
I rebuilt my dev machine recently and reinstalled the Service Fabric 2.1 SDKs from here: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/service-fabric-get-started/ The rest of the devs on my
I’ve been using the Adafruit Feather HUZZAH ESP8266 board and Visual Micro quite a bit lately. The Huzzah is a board that includes the ESP8266 WiFi module and a LiPo battery jack – making it really ea
You have a couple different options to monitor your incoming and outgoing Azure IoT Hub traffic. Azure CLI IoT Extension See this ref for more info: https://aka.ms/iotcli https://docs.microsoft.com/e
I’m hacking on project that requires an accelerometer. I picked up this 9-Axis Inertial Navigation Module for Arduino from my local Vetco. That board is actually a GY801 (the newer version of the GY80
Azure provides a set of services that allow you to visualize IoT device data in real-time. The data pipeline is: IoT Device –> Azure IoT Hub –> Azure Stream Analytics –> Power BI. Follow alon
Here’s a quick post on how to get setup with Azure IoT Hub with a UWP App. These steps and code taken from Olivier Bloch’s Build Talk: 1. Create a new Azure IoT Hub – Free Tier – in Azure Portal http:
Here’s what you do when you want to get a local copy of an Azure SQL Database. Export Azure Database 1. Select your database in the Azure Portal https://portal.azure.com/#blade/HubsExtension/BrowseRes