2017-01-09

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

2017-01-05

TechAzure

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

2017-01-05

TechBugs

'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

2017-01-04

TechJobs

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

2017-01-03

TechPower BI

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

2016-12-19

TechAzure

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

2016-12-14

TechAzure

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

2016-12-13

TechPower BI

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

2016-11-29

TechAzure

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

2016-11-29

TechTutorials

Linux Touch Equivalent for Windows AKA How to Create a File Without a Name in Windows

Windows Explorer doesn’t allow you to create a file without a name: Windows doesn’t have a native “touch” equivalent, which is a native Linux program that allows you to create empty files and change

2016-11-17

TechPower BI

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

2016-10-11

TechPower BI

How to Create a Power BI Custom Visual Based on an Existing d3 Visual - Part 3 - Custom Format Properties

UPDATE: The Liquid Fill Gauge visual is now available to download from the Power BI Custom Visual Gallery! – In this series, we are creating a Power BI Custom Visual from an OSS d3 visualization I fou

2016-09-29

TechPower BI

How to Create a Power BI Custom Visual Based on an Existing d3 Visual - Part 2 - Capabilities, dataRoles and dataViewMappings

UPDATE: The Liquid Fill Gauge visual is now available to download from the Power BI Custom Visual Gallery! – This is a continuation of my attempt at creating a Power BI Custom Visual from an OSS d3 vi

2016-09-29

TechBugs

Solution: Power BI - "Can't contact visual server. Please make sure the visual server is running and configured correctly."

You might see this error message when trying to load the Power BI Custom Visual “Development Visual” “Can’t contact visual server. Please make sure the visual server is running and configured correct

2016-09-25

TechPower BI

How to Create a Power BI Custom Visual Based on an Existing d3 Visual - Part 1 - Dev Env Setup, Reference and Testing

The purpose of this post is to show you how to take an existing open source d3 visual and create a Power BI Custom Visual from it. I’ve been digging into the new Power BI Custom Visual SDK and just cr

2016-09-20

TechPower BI

Power BI Custom Visual Dev Environment Setup Quickstart

I have removed the content of this post because the Power BI team created the following dev environment setup page: Power BI Documentation: Use developer tools to create custom visuals Jon

2016-09-16

TechAzure

Explore the Azure IoT Certified Devices with Power BI

What do you do when you find a static table online that you want to quickly slice and dice? Enter Power BI. Here’s the resulting Power BI report…details on how I created it below… How this report was

2016-09-11

TechTutorials

How to Create a Raspberry Pi (Raspbian) Base Image for Node.js Development

Here are some short and sweet instructions for setting up your Raspberry Pi for Node.js dev and creating a base image that can be used over and over again. Many of the steps below are taken from the a

2016-09-01

TechBugs

Solution: "You cannot use this account for this purpose because it belongs to an organization. Please choose a different account or sign up for a new one." when trying to signing to a Visual Studio Team Services project from within Visual Studio

I just spent way too much time trying to login to a VSTS instance from VS. Turns out to have something to do with how Microsoft Account is configured in Visual Studio. So, if you get this error: “You

2016-08-29

TechTutorials

How to Control a Sphero SPRK+ with a Raspberry Pi 3 and Node.js

I’m working on a demo that involves streaming Sphero data through the Azure IoT stack. I got my Sphero SPRK+ last week and quickly discovered that it only has Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) enabled and no