Jon Gallant

We often need to share database connection strings, system account passwords and whatnot with our team members.

This post describes how to use Postman and Newman to demonstrate your APIs to your users.

You may notice that the latest version of VS Code uses PowerShell as its default Integrated Terminal.

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...

As of January 12th, 2017, Windows now has a brand new Bluetooth Settings dialog with a Connect button!

Windows does not currently have a good way to re-connect to a previously paired Bluetooth audio device.

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.

I use git-ftp to deploy my hexo blog from a git repo to an FTP site.

Here’s how to reference three.js in your Power BI Custom Visual project.

I’m working on a new visual that uses an open source JavaScript control that includes a CSS file.

A big part of my Zero Inbox routine is to Cc myself when I want to be reminded to follow up on the mail.

I recently gave a few presentations at Ignite New Zealand and used a couple of applications to help me find the lowest latency Azure Region from Auckland.

While digging into the new Azure CLI 2.0 to create a Power BI Workspace Collection, I discovered that while you can create the Power BI Workspace Collection...

This post will show you how to create a Power BI Embedded Workspace Collection via the new Azure CLI 2.0.

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 just moved my blog to hexo and ran into the “EMFILE: too many open files issue”.

I’ve been at Microsoft since 2003.

I was recently asked to help build a “Range Slider” Power BI Custom Visual that simply filters a report based on the slider value.

Over the past couple of months, the Particle team and the Azure IoT team have been developing a integration between the two cloud services.

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...

Here’s how to render either an SVG or a PNG from within a Power BI Custom Visual.

Windows Explorer doesn’t allow you to create files that start with . because it interprets that as not having a file name.

Here’s a quick and easy way to get your GitHub Page repo deployed to an Azure Web App.

The Power BI team just released v1.2 of the Custom Visuals SDK.

UPDATE: The Liquid Fill Gauge visual is now available to download from the Power BI Custom Visual Gallery!

UPDATE: The Liquid Fill Gauge visual is now available to download from the Power BI Custom Visual Gallery!

You might see this error message when trying to load the Power BI Custom Visual “Development Visual” “Can’t contact visual server.

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 have removed the content of this post because the Power BI team created the following dev environment setup page: Power BI Documentation: Use developer too...

What do you do when you find a static table online that you want to quickly slice and dice?

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.

I’m working on a demo that involves streaming Sphero data through the Azure IoT stack.

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 c...

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 do...

Here’s how to directly connect to the Event Hub that backs an IoT Hub.

I joined the Developer Experience team not too long ago and am focused on helping partners develop IoT products on the Azure IoT stack.

If you get the following error when trying to install the Lync 2013 SDK….

The Azure IoT Field Gateway SDK is a set of libraries that allow you to build a device that acts as a proxy between an individual IoT device and Azure IoT Hu...

The most anticipated Windows 10 Anniversary Update developer feature is now available for everyone…not just Windows Insiders.

[Here’s a Power BI offering index with short and sweet descriptions.

I just published this IFTTT (If This Than That) Recipe that will send me an email when I like a tweet.

I recently created a custom Fiddler extension called PowerBIFiddler.

I rebuilt my dev machine recently and reinstalled the Service Fabric 2.1 SDKs from here: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/service-fab...

I’ve been using the Adafruit Feather HUZZAH ESP8266 board and Visual Micro quite a bit lately.

You have a couple different options to monitor your incoming and outgoing Azure IoT Hub traffic.

Fix for duplicate property error in ASP.NET applications.

I’m hacking on project that requires an accelerometer.

Azure provides a set of services that allow you to visualize IoT device data in real-time.

Here’s a quick post on how to get setup with Azure IoT Hub with a UWP App.

I just flattened my machine and ran into this issue when running a Service Fabric hosted WebAPI project.