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Azure Cosmos DB Desktop Data Migration Tool v2.0

by Chris Pietschmann | Apr 5, 2023

The Azure Cosmos DB Desktop Data Migration Tool is a command-line tool that provides data import and export capabilities for using with Azure Cosmos...

Install the New Windows PowerToys

by Dan Patrick | Aug 29, 2020

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...

Sysinternals ProcDump for Linux

by Chris Pietschmann | Jun 19, 2020

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

by Chris Pietschmann | Jun 17, 2020

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?

by Chris Pietschmann | May 14, 2020

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

by Chris Pietschmann | May 5, 2020

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

by Chris Pietschmann | Apr 5, 2020

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

by Chris Pietschmann | Mar 16, 2020

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

by Chris Pietschmann | Sep 10, 2019

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

by Mélony Qin | Jul 8, 2019

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

by Chris Pietschmann | Apr 24, 2019

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

by Chris Pietschmann | Feb 21, 2018

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

by Chris Pietschmann | Oct 20, 2017

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

by Chris Pietschmann | Aug 1, 2017

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

by Chris Pietschmann | May 16, 2017

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...