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  • Office365 Two Factor Authentication

    Two-factor authentication is an important thing, we should all now that by now. For a long time, I’ve had it activated on my Microsoft Account and Google Account. Today I decided to turn it on for the modelon.net Office365 tenant, I went into the admin tools and turned it on. Easy enough. As expected, I Read more

  • VSTS – Build & Release for To-Do.Studio’s web site

    So my startup To-Do.Studio is advancing, and we started getting rolling on our informational website. The first thing was to create a “web site” project with Visual Studio, and get it into GIT. As you can see, it’s just a bunch of HTML, CSS and stuff, with a small web.config so that we can host Read more

  • Podcasts – Mine and Others

    Let me be honest – I hadn’t listened to podcasts in a while, so was pleasantly surprised when I was recording a podcast with Mario Cardinal and Guy Barrette on CosmosDB and, during the initial chitchat, Mario talks about a great podcast he started listening to called After On. Here is a link to the Read more

  • Shrinking USB keys to save a old Windows Tablet

    At the first Microsoft Build event, they gave attendees a Samsung tablet, made for Windows 8. I loved that tablet (other than the fact that it was heavy) because it had a built-in cellular modem. But sadly, last week, the thing crashed and was going into a boot loop. The only way to revive it Read more

  • Azure AppService to FTP (not in Azure)

    Oy,  I just spent a crazy week to learn that : It is impossible for an AppService application to connect to a FTP server on the internet (in passive mode). The reason is that each Azure App-Service is assigned a pool of IP addresses for outgoing traffic and Azure is free to choose a new Read more

  • Screen scrapping

    One thing I believe in is constant change, and constant learning, ideally one thing per day. Sometimes it’s learning how to cook the best eggs benedict ever for breakfast, or sometimes it’s helping out a friend with a special request. Today I was asked by a colleague if I could help extract data from a web Read more