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Why I Switched from Tile to Trackr
Update: 1/8/18: TrackR will now replace your first battery for FREE! I’ve been using TrackR for a couple of months now without issue. But I am surprised that the initial battery only lasted 2 months.
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Microsoft is Hiring High-Scale Data Services Developers
My team is hiring developers in the high-scale data space that have experience building data and analytics pipelines. The ideal candidate is someone with a deep understanding of Lamda architecture an
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Solution to "unknown shorthand flag a in -a" When Trying to Remove Docker Containers
This docker command will remove all stopped containers. docker rm $(docker ps -a -q) This docker command will remove all containers, even if they are running. docker rm $(docker ps -a -q) -f If you ru
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How to Create a .NET Core CLI Console App as an EXE Instead of a DLL
You may have just discovered that when you create a console app using the .NET Core CLI tools it only produces a DLL by default. If you execute this: dotnet new console -n App And then execute a build
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How to Change Your Raspberry Pi Password
You’ll want to make sure you don’t leave the default ‘pi’ user’s password to the default ‘raspberry’ setting. Here’s how to change it. Login to Pi Login to your Pi via Remote Desktop, SSH or via moni
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How to SSH into a Raspberry Pi
You will often want to execute commands over SSH instead of having to Remote Desktop or access your Pi via a monitor and keyboard. Here’s how to get SSH setup on your Pi. Enable SSH Via Pi Terminal su
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How to Run Docker on Raspberry Pi
It is very easy to get Docker running on a Raspberry Pi. Here’s a barebones post to get you started. You can execute the following commands over SSH or Remote Desktop. Install Docker curl -sSL https:
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How to Access Raspberry Pi Files via a Samba File Share
As part of your normal Raspberry Pi dev workflow you’re going to want to access the files of the Raspberry Pi from your host dev machine. Here’s how to create a file share with Samba. Create a File S
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How to Remote Desktop into Raspberry Pi with RealVNC
I’ve cleared out this post because the Raspberry Pi documentation site now has docs updated for Stretch. You can find the Raspberry Pi Remote Desktop setup steps here.
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Solution to Unreachable Azure IoT Hub Endpoint
Azure IoT allows you to define “Endpoints” and send messages to them via “Routes”. Learn more about Endpoints and Routes here. I setup a Service Bus Queue Endpoint, but it was showing as “Unreachable”
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How to use Apache Avro Compression with Azure IoT, Azure Stream Analytics, and Node.js
I was recently working with a customer that uses Apache Avro compression and discovered that there isn’t a great example out there that shows you how to send Avro compressed messages through the IoT p
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How to Execute Postman Collections in your Continuous Integration Pipeline with Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) and newman
I’ve been doing a lot with Postman lately and have been blogging everything I’ve uncovered along the way. Postman is more than just an ad-hoc REST tester - I believe that the future of REST API docume
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How to Host Jenkins on Azure
6/29/17 Update: There’s a new Azure Solution Template for Jenkins here: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-the-solution-template-for-jenkins-on-azure/ Here’s how to get Jenkins on Azu
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I'm moving to Starbucks to be the new Chief Coffee Officer!
Many of you know that I’m fanatical about high quality coffee. Like many people, I used to think Starbucks was good coffee. That was until I experienced freshly roasted and freshly ground coffee. Tha
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How to Poll Long Running Async Requests in Postman
Some HTTP requests are long running and instead of asking users to wait for the long running operation to complete, they will return a “request status URI” that, when requested, will return a running/
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How to Use and Execute the Azure IoT Resource Provider REST APIs with Postman
I was recently working with a partner that was having some difficulty integrating with the Azure IoT REST APIs. You can read about that experience here: How to Use the Azure IoT Hub Device Twins REST
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How to Generate Azure Storage Shared Access Signature (SAS) Tokens in Postman's Pre-request Script Sandbox
I’m working on a project that should make it much easier for developers to consume REST APIs that use SAS Tokens with Swagger and Postman. If you don’t already know, Postman is an app that allows you
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How to Use Azure Active Directory (AAD) Access Tokens in Postman
Update: 12/5/2017: I blogged a much faster way to do this here: Azure REST APIs with Postman in 2 Minutes Here’s how to get all setup with AAD access tokens in Postman. Step-by-Step Walkthrough Vide
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Solution to Azure Function Message: Read only - because you have started editing with source control, this view is read only. You can edit these settings in function.json
If you see the following while trying to edit an Azure Function via browser… “Read only - because you have started editing with source control, this view is read only. You can edit these settings in
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How to Create a Power BI Slicer with the Power BI Custom Visual SDK
Starting with version 1.5 of the Power BI Custom Visuals SDK, we now have the ability to create “slicer” visuals, which are visuals that can filter data in other visuals on the same report. For the pu