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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Here’s how to install Node.js on Raspberry Pi (originally posted as a SoF answer for Ubuntu here) Install curl sudo apt-get install curl -y Install node v4 curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_4.
If you see this: It probably means your Bluetooth service is stopped: Try this: sudo service bluetooth start then sudo service bluetooth status If that doesn’t work, try this:https://www.pi-supply.co