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Why and How I Switched from AT&T to T-Mobile
I recently switched from AT&T to T-Mobile. Here’s a quick post that goes through why and how I made the swtich. 2/22/2017 Update: T-Mobile just introduced the 2 lines for $100 plan, so T-Mobile
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How to Pair and Connect a Bluetooth Audio Device on Windows 10
Windows does not currently have a good way to re-connect to a previously paired Bluetooth audio device. I’ve blogged about this before, but I’ve simplified my re-connect process. I have heard this has
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How to use the Azure IoT Hub File Upload API with Python
I’m hacking with a customer today who is using Python and needs to upload images to Azure IoT Hub using the File Upload API. It took us a while to figure it out and ran into a bunch of issues. Here’s
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How to Install git-ftp on Windows
I use git-ftp to deploy my hexo blog from a git repo to an FTP site. Getting it setup on Windows was non-trivial. Here’s how I got it working. 1. Install Chocolatey https://chocolatey.org/install 2.
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How to Reference Three.js in a Power BI Custom Visual Project
Here’s how to reference three.js in your Power BI Custom Visual project. I have not tested to see if three.js actually works on powerbi.com, but this is how to resolve reference issues. 1. Setup you
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How to Reference a CSS File in a Power BI Custom Visual Project
I’m working on a new visual that uses an open source JavaScript control that includes a CSS file. I was hoping I could just reference it in pbiviz.json, but that’s not possible because it only suppor
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How to Create a Custom Outlook Ribbon Button to Cc Yourself Before Sending an Email
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
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How to Find Azure Regions with Lowest Latency
I recently gave a few presentations at Ignite New Zealand and used a couple of applications to help me find the lowest latency Azure Region from Auckland. You’ll want to know the top two regions, bec
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How to Create a Power BI Embedded Workspace Collection with the Azure Command Line Interface (CLI) 1.0
While digging into the new Azure CLI 2.0 to create a Power BI Workspace Collection, I discovered that while you can create the Power BI Workspace Collection you cannot currently get to the Access Keys
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How to Create a Power BI Embedded Workspace Collection with the new Azure Command Line Interface (CLI) 2.0
This post will show you how to create a Power BI Embedded Workspace Collection via the new Azure CLI 2.0. People typically create Workspace Collections via the Azure Portal, but that requires clicks a
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Getting Started with Azure API Management (APIM)
I pinged a friend over on the Azure API Management team for good “getting started with APIM” material and he sent over this list. I’ll post more as I dig in. Microsoft Azure API Management Essentia
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'Solution to "EMFILE: too many open files" in Windows'
I just moved my blog to hexo and ran into the “EMFILE: too many open files issue”. The hexo issue page recommends you run ulimit, but that doesn’t work on Windows. After trying a ton of different th
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Hiring: Senior Dev - Developer Experience Team - Come Work With Me!
I’ve been at Microsoft since 2003. I started as a Dev in Windows, then Dev Lead for the Learning Platform, then Dev Lead in MSDN, then Dev Lead in Bing, then a Dev Lead at MSN, then a Dev Manager for
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How to Embed and Filter a Power BI Report with the new Power BI Embedded JavaScript API
I was recently asked to help build a “Range Slider” Power BI Custom Visual that simply filters a report based on the slider value. Unfortunately “filtering” is not currently supported in the new Power
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Beta Testers Needed for Particle to Azure IoT Integration
Over the past couple of months, the Particle team and the Azure IoT team have been developing a integration between the two cloud services. Particle is an IoT company that launced on Kickstarter in 2
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Introducing Azure Iot Hub Routes - A New Feature That Allows You to Route Messages to Alternate Endpoints
The Azure IoT team just announced Custom Endpoints and Routes feature - which allows you to route IoT Hub messages to your own Event Hub, Service Bus Queues or Service Bus Topics. You define your alte
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Power BI Custom Visual Tip: How to Render an SVG or PNG
Here’s how to render either an SVG or a PNG from within a Power BI Custom Visual. For this post, I’m going to use the IoT Hub icon that can be found in the Microsoft Azure, Cloud and Enterprise Symbol
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How to Deploy a GitHub Pages Site to an Azure Web App
Here’s a quick and easy way to get your GitHub Page repo deployed to an Azure Web App. Let me know if you run into any issues. Create GitHub Pages Repo Skip to next step if you already have a GitHub p
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Linux/UNIX 'touch' Equivalent on Windows aka How to Create a File Without a Name on Windows
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
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How to Add [email protected] Reference to a Power BI Custom Visual (SDK v1.2)
The Power BI team just released v1.2 of the Custom Visuals SDK. With this version you now need to reference d3 v3.5.5 yourself. d3 v4 does not work yet. I’m working with the team to get a v4 compat an