You’ve created your Microsoft Teams Team and you want to send an invite to all of the Team members. You create an invite and see the following, but you aren’t sure what to enter here. You then see t
VS Code just released an update that lets you embed an “Open in Visual Studio Code” button in your GitHub readme. It uses the Remote Repositories VS Code extension to directly open the repo without
I just created a Microsoft Teams private channel and noticed that it doesn’t have “Get link to channel” option like other channels. Here, you can see it doesn’t have that option: Here’s how I found t
Let’s say that you are developing with Azure Event Grid and you simply want to see the messages that it is generating to observe the schema or debug it. To do so you need to configure an Event Grid h
I just organized all my old photos into this folder format YYYY/YYYY_MM/YYYY_MM_DD - see this blog for more info: How to Organize Photos by EXIF Date Taken with PowerShell Lightroom doesn’t support t
I work with GitHub Codespaces quite a bit and discovered that there a few things that don’t work well with GitHub CLI and Git. To set some context: GitHub CLI uses the GITHUB_TOKEN environment varia
I’ve been coding in .NET for a very-long-time, but this tripped me up. Run the following code: var resources = await client.Resources.ListByResourceGroupAsync(resourceGroupName); foreach (var resource
Thunder Client is a new REST client VS Code extension. It’s like Postman, but integrated into VS Code. I’d consider it an early preview and far from the feature richness and maturity of Postman, bu
You’re using VS Code with the GitLens extension and you see this: Or maybe you noticed that sometimes that text is inserted into the middle of what you are typing. This feature is part of GitLens and
We are a puzzle family and a few years ago started hanging them up around the house. We are also a Star Wars family and started doing Star Wars themed puzzles. My office wall now has many puzzles that
Got this today: The subscription does not have QuotaId/Feature required by SKU ‘S0’. { "error":{ "code":"InvalidTemplateDeployment", "message":"The template deployment 'memetest04091' i
I’ve been blogging and vlogging about Azure REST APIs with Postman for a while now and often get asked why I don’t use Postman’s built in OAuth 2.0 provider. The reason is that when you use the prov
I don’t eat at McDonald’s often, but when I do it’s sodium overload because me and my kid are use to a very low-sodium diet. While on a recent roadtrip we wanted to make a quick stop at McDonald’s. I
This is a story of how much effort and care we put into Azure SDK naming guidelines and consistency - even for the casing of a single letter…the last T in IoT. In 2005, I read Framework Design Guidel
Was getting this error today: Liquid Exception: Could not locate the included file 'app_insights.html' in any of ["D:/OneDriveMS/code/GitHub/jongio/azure-sdk/_includes", "C:/Ruby26-x64/lib/ruby/gems/2
I recently decided to organize all of my photos from the last 20 years. Photos from various phones and cameras - all with many different formats, JPEG, RAW, PNG, etc. They were all stored on my har
Here’s how to call the Azure REST APIs with Insomnia - a modern lightweight REST API client. Azure SDKs Before we go too far into this Azure REST APIs for Insomnia post, I want to make sure that you
I got this error while deploying a new Azure Kubernetes Cluster. { "error":{ "code":"InvalidTemplateDeployment", "message":"The template deployment 'memealyzerdev3' is not valid accordi
I just returned from a trip to Zion National Park in February 2021. Here are some tips that will help if you are considering a trip to Zion in the winter. Housing This is where we stayed and loved it
I recently and successfully used AirportParkingReservations.com to park my car at Master Park at SeaTac - so I thought I would write a quick note to let my readers know that it’s a good service and wo