I’ve been installing Fusion 360 on a bunch of machines lately and am posting the direct link here so I can save some clicks. Here’s the direct link to install Fusion 360: http://www.appstreaming.autod
I had an On-Demand Azure WebJob and wanted to convert it to a scheduled WebJob. It took me a while to figure out how, so I thought I’d share to save you some time. You are probably already past this p
I have 5GB of available iCloud storage, but I am still getting the “Not Enough Storage. This iPhone cannot be backed up because there is not enough iCloud storage available. You can manage your storag
[ Autodesk has a 3D printing prep product called Print Studio: A showcase of the Spark Print Preparation API’s power and utility. Print Studio quickly heals, prepares and prints 3D models optimized f
Around this time last year I did a deep dive into 8 different 3D modeling software options in my “3D Modeling” blog series. I landed on Fusion 360 because it is professional grade, has great support a
I’m working on a project that involves aggregating data from many sources (Twitter, Blogs, Yammer, etc) so my team can get visibility and respond to questions being asked about our product. My goal is
[ We were all disappointed when Windows Live Writer went into sustainment mode in 2012ish. Shortly after that, Scott and I talked about options. One option was to write a new tool and another was to s
I was just setting up a new Particle Photon and got this error message when using the particle-cli setup command No nearby Photons detected. Try the particle.js help command for more information. I
The Twitter API has its own custom date time format. Tue Dec 01 22:35:28 +0000 2015 DateTime.Parse will barf if you try to parse it. I searched around a bit and didn’t find a quick resolution. Lucki
I was just setting up a new IFTTT.com recipe and got this error: “search query is too long or complex”. I did a bunch of poking around and discovered that my IFTTT->Twitter integration was disconn
Truth be told – I haven’t done a lot of ASP.NET dev over the last couple of years, but since I do a good amount of maker projects that involve webhooks, I had to checkout the new ASP.NET WebHooks feat
Scenario: You have a SQL Server database and you edit that data using Access. You make a schema change to the SQL Server table and you want that change to be reflected in Access. It’s easy, yet unintu
Hooking up a 16x2 LCD screen to a Particle Photon is pretty easy one you get it all wired up correctly and find the right library to use. I spent a bunch of time digging through forums to get this wor
I got some new monitors and went to go run my monitor color calibrator – HueyPro by Pantone – and saw that they didn’t have a Windows 10 driver. I pinged them to see if they had one and got this respo
I was just installing particle-cli on a new machine and got this error: Error: Can't find Python executable "python", you can set the PYTHON env variable. Super obvious what is going on – you need to
If you get this exception when connecting to an Azure SQL Database from Access: “Built-in function ‘has_dbaccess’ is not supported in this version of SQL Server.”, you are using the wrong driver. Her
I’m investigating automatic REST API SDK generation options and I’d like your help narrowing things down. We, at Power BI, have a REST/JSON API and our documentation is up on apiary, which supports “A
It took me a few minutes to figure out how to get the Power Pivot Excel Add-in installed, so I figured I’d do a post to save you some time. Instead of a download it’s actually already installed when y
[TLDR; I just joined Power BI and I’m hiring developers. Click here to jump to the job description and apply. Here are some of my previous blog posts to give you an idea of how I operate: On Work/Lif
I’m working on project that uses the Bing Maps Routing API and couldn’t find a way to easily convert a Directions URL that you would get from Bing.com/maps to the Bing Maps Routing API URL format, so