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Proactive Mentorship
The concept of proactive mentorship is all about encouraging both mentees and mentors to be assertive in asking for and offering help. I’m a big believer in mentorship because I’m a byproduct of many
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How to Remove Yourself from an Azure Subscription or Azure Active Directory Tenant
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
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Solution - Value cannot be null. Parameter name paths at System.IO.Path.Combine(String[] paths) at Microsoft.TemplateEngine.Utils.EngineEnvironmentSettings.DefaultPathInfo.get_BaseDir()
In Azure DevOps, got this error: 2018-09-25T21:24:45.2778646Z ERROR: Error: Value cannot be null.2018-09-25T21:24:45.2791049Z Parameter name: paths2018-09-25T21:24:45.2804472Z at System.IO.Path.Com
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Solution - The user's home directory could not be determined. Set the 'DOTNET_CLI_HOME' environment variable to specify the directory to use.
In Azure DevOps, got this: The user's home directory could not be determined. Set the 'DOTNET_CLI_HOME' environment variable to specify the directory to use. As a workaround, add the DOTNET_CLI_HOME v
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Solution: Cannot remove entries from nonexistent file easy-install.pth
I got this the other day while doing a pip install: Cannot remove entries from nonexistent file c:\python36\lib\site-packages\easy-install.pth I searched around a bit and couldn’t find a solution. --i
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How to Fix NEC Monitor with NVIDIA Graphics Card that Won't Expand to Full Resolution
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
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How To View Number of PyPI Package Downloads by Python Version
Building Python packages that support both Python 2 and 3 is time consuming and at some point you are going to ask the question “Can I just build this thing for Python 3?” Ideally, the answer to that
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Where to Find Your SpectraView II Serial Number
When you launch SpectraView II for the first time it will ask you for a serial number: “Enter the serial number you received with software” I could not find the number on the sensor box - so I contac
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Azure CLI: How to Supress Command Output
By default, when you run az login, it will output the subscriptions associated with your account. There’s no way to tell the Azure CLI to suppress output. If you don’t want it to print subscriptions,
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Azure IoT Edge on Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)
If you try to run the Azure IoT Edge Runtime or the Azure IoT Edge Dev Tool on Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), then you will run into the following errors: ERROR: Could not login to Container Regis
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Azure Functions v2 Now Uses ASP.NET Core Configuration and No Longer Supports ConfigurationManager
You may have noticed that ConfigurationManager is not available in Azure Functions v2 .NET Standard projects. It’s no longer supported. AF v2 now uses ASPNET Core Configuration. If you add the Syste
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Python Lessons Learned. Read This Before You Start Building a Distributable Python Package
I just published my first official distributable Python package to PyPI, which makes it available to install via pip install. It’s called Azure IoT Edge Dev Tool (PyPI, GitHub, Video) and helps IoT E
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Solution to 'Value cannot be null. Parameter name: path1' with dotnet and tox
When running Python unit tests with tox, you might see the following errors: C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\2.0.0\NuGet.targets(466,5): error : Value cannot be null. C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\2.0.0\NuG
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Workaround: Azure IoT Python SDK Error: curl_easy_perform() failed: Out of memory
A bunch of people have reported the following issue with the Azure IoT Python SDK: azure-iot-sdk-python/c/c-utility/adapters/httpapi_curl.c Func:HTTPAPI_ExecuteRequest Line:552 curl_easy_perform() fai
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Azure REST APIs with Postman in 2 Minutes
The Azure REST APIs require a Bearer Token Authorization header. The docs do a great job explaining every authentication requirement, but do not tell you how to quickly get started. This post will ho
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Azure IoT Edge: How to Set Force No Passwords in Config
When setting up Azure IoT Edge, you will most likely want to use an external config file. If you run iotedgectl setup with the --config-file option and don’t want to force passwords with the --auto-ce
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Azure IoT Edge with Azure Container Registry
You will likely want to run the Azure IoT Edge Runtime from your own Azure Container Registry (ACR). While this will be officially supported eventually, right now it is not, but there is a workaround.
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Solution to Slow iPhone 6 with iOS 11
My iPhone 6 Plus was so slow it was unusable. Each tap would take 2-3 seconds and everything was sluggish. I deleted all apps I wasn’t using and turned off Background App Refresh but nothing helped.
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Solution to Outlook Hanging (Not Responding) When Opening an Appointment
Outlook has been hanging on me for the last couple of days. Turns out it is related to the Skype Add-in. I disabled the add-in and it’s fine now…but I won’t be able to use Skype integration until that
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How to Change Raspberry Pi Keyboard Layout
The default Raspberry Pi keyboard layout is “gb”. You can change to US by doing the following: sudo nano /etc/default/keyboard Change XKBLAYOUT="gb" to XKBLAYOUT="us". sudo reboot