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
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
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
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
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/
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
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
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
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
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
We often need to share database connection strings, system account passwords and whatnot with our team members. People typically put the secret in a DRM’d email, but that’s not secure enough and you c
This post describes how to use Postman and Newman to demonstrate your APIs to your users. Of course, you are going to want to use Apiary to officially describe your APIs, but if you really want to dem
As you can imagine, we have many Power BI internal test environments and all Microsofties get redirected to an internal pre-release version of Power BI so we can test the latest features and provide f
You may notice that the latest version of VS Code uses PowerShell as its default Integrated Terminal. I’m not quite ready to use PowerShell for everything, so I wanted to switch it back to cmd for the
As of January 12th, 2017, Windows now has a brand new Bluetooth Settings dialog with a Connect button! Not having this button in the initial version of this dialog was a big miss and frustrated many p
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
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
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
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.
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