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How to Quickly Install Fusion 360
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
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How to Convert an Azure On-Demand WebJob to a Scheduled WebJob
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
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Workaround for "Not Enough Storage. This iPhone cannot be backed up because there is not enough iCloud storage available. You can manage your storage in Settings."
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
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Autodesk Print Studio Download Link
[ 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
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How to Create the Microsoft Glass Wave Logo with Fusion 360
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
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Two Things to Consider when Integrating via Zapier
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
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Announcing Open Live Writer
[ 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
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Solution to "No nearby Photons detected." while running particle setup
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
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How to Parse Twitter's Date Time Format with C#
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
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Solution to "search query is too long or complex" when creating a Twitter IFTTT Recipe
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
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ASP.NET WebHooks Preview Nuget Package Install Script
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
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How to Update a Linked Table Schema in Access
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
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How to Setup a Particle Photon and a 16x2 LCD Screen
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
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HueyPro by Pantone Doesn't Have a Windows 10 Driver
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
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Solution to "Can't find Python executable "python", you can set the PYTHON env variable."
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
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Solution to "Built-in function 'has_dbaccess' is not supported in this version of SQL Server." when connecting to an Azure SQL Database from Access
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
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REST API SDK Generators
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
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How to Enable the Power Pivot Add-in in Excel 2016
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
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Devs Needed for Power BI - Microsoft's new Business Intelligence Cloud Service
[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
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How to Convert a Bing Maps Directions URL to a Bing Maps Routing API URL
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