Windows PowerToys is back, and it rocks! Many of us have been reliving the "old days", this week as Windows 95 turned 25. I loved Windows 95 when it...
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Sysinternals ProcDump for Linux
Sysinternals are very widely used tools from Microsoft in the Windows world, and now the ProcDump utility has been ported over to Linux as an Open...
Run Office 365 Apps on Ubuntu with an Open Source Web App Wrapper
Microsoft has already brought Microsoft Teams to Linux as the first Microsoft Office app to officially be supported on Linux. We are still waiting...
Should Microsoft acquire Canonical / Ubuntu?
Microsoft's adoption of Linux today is something that appeared to never be possible only a few years ago. It was not even twenty years ago when...
Block Ads, Trackers, and NSFW Sites on Your Network using Pi-hole and Raspberry Pi
Pi-hole is free and open source software for setting up a DNS (Domain Name Service) and DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) server with...
Host Private Video Meetings in Azure with Jitsi
In the current time of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic many more people are working and meeting online. Many of those people have moved to using...
GitHub acquires npm
Nat Friedman, the CEO of GitHub, announced that GitHub has signed an agreement to acquire npm. "npm, inc." is the company behind the extremely...
Microsoft Linux Conference WSLconf Coming March 2020
Microsoft announced they are going to be hosting the first Microsoft Linux conference, named WSLconf 1, on March 10 - 11, 2020. The new WSLconf (aka...
End-to-end CI/CD automation using Azure DevOps unified Yaml-defined Pipelines
Azure pipeline as a core part of Azure DevOps, it allows for the creation of CI ( Continuous Integration) pipeline in a declarative way using YAML...
Microsoft Cloud Workshops: Free Microsoft Azure Hands-on Lab Guides
The Microsoft Cloud Workshop (MCW) program maintains a number of Workshops that are used to train Microsoft's own Cloud Solution Architects, as well...
Introduction to Git Version Control Workflow
Keeping track of file versions has been a long time issue in the world of software. This remains true if you're writing source code for an...
Swagger is now the OpenAPI Specification
A while back I wrote an OSS Spotlight post about the Swagger project. In short, Swagger is "the world's most popular API tooling". It's a powerful...
Programming Arduino with Visual Studio Code
Microsoft Visual Studio Code is a cross-platform, Node.js-based IDE (Integrated Development Environment). It's been maturing into a really amazing...
Azure CLI 1.0 vs 2.0 Compared, Installation and Usage
The Azure CLI is the cross-platform, command-line tool for managing resources in Microsoft Azure. Microsoft recently released the Azure CLI 2.0 and...
MCSA: Linux on Azure Certification
Among the various Microsoft MCSA certification, the MCSA: Linux on Azure is certainly a little of it's own league. This is the only Microsoft...
LFCS: Linux Foundation Certified System Administrator Certification
The Linux Foundation Certified System Administrator (LFCS) certification from The Linux Foundation is a full Linux certification for verifying and...
OSS Spotlight: Swagger
There have been a few approaches to make sharing and consuming Web Services easier over the years. Many developers have worked with WSDL and SOAP...
PowerShell now Open Source AND Cross-Platform! Linux, macOS, Windows
Windows PowerShell the new Shell (first released in 2006) for Windows that provides the ability to implement Task Automation, and Configuration...
Super Human: Learn Azure Get a Free Drone
Who doesn't want a free drone / quadcopter? "Let's face it, you're SUPER HUMAN" The tryazuremarketplace.com website currently has a bunch of FREE...
Azure Marketplace: FreeBSD 10.3
Over the last couple years Microsoft has been working to make FreeBSD a first class VM guest on Hyper-V. One of the primary reasons to work on this...
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