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Feb 18, 2023 12 min read

Get Started with Python Scripting and Automation

Python is a popular programming language that is widely used for scripting, automation, data analysis, and web development. Python scripting is a skill that every…

Oct 15, 2020 2 min read

Python Scripting in the Azure Cloud Shell

Did you know the Azure Cloud Shell includes support for Python? You can write Python scripts, save then, upload, and run them directly within the…

Oct 12, 2020 1 min read

VS Code Gets Linux ARMv7 and ARM64 Support

With the release of the v1.50 (September 2020) update of Visual Studio Code comes official support for Linux ARMv7 and ARM64. This means that Microsoft…

Oct 7, 2020 2 min read

Azure DevOps Outages: October 7, 2020

Azure DevOps was down yesterday due to an Azure Front Door (AFD) related issue. Today, Microsoft has been experiencing a series of “Service Disruptions” with…

Jul 13, 2020 3 min read

Azure Web App: Connection Strings

Just as all Azure Web Apps need configuration values, most applications also need to have database Connection String values configured. With Azure Web Apps the…

Jul 1, 2020 3 min read

Azure Web App: Application Settings

All web applications have some kind of configurations that are set on the server. The method of storing and accessing these settings varies on different…

May 14, 2020 2 min read

Docker development VM in Azure

Ever wish you had a Docker dev workstation in Azure? About two months ago, we introduced the Azure Kung Fu VM, and judging by the…

May 1, 2020 2 min read

Visual Studio Online is now Visual Studio Codespaces

Microsoft’s web-based development environment, Visual Studio Online, has been rebranded to Visual Studio Codespaces. This is a web-based development environment (IDE) based on the popular…

Apr 21, 2020 1 min read

Git Cheat Sheet

When working with any command-line tool, like Git, it can be easy to forget some of the commands you don’t use very often. This is…