Today’s post describes how Azure Function’s very easily can be used to build real world applications. I build the basis application on my train ride home from Azure Global Bootcamp, an hour from idea to working implementation. The application is a URL shortener, like you know from tinyurl, bit.ly or […]
So your company uses Office 365, and you are tired of constantly having to go to Microsofts login portal, maybe even decide whether to use your organizational (work or school) account or you personal account before you can log in? If your company also uses ADFS you can actually skip […]
Azure function recently added support for using it as a proxy for other APIs. The intention behind azure function proxies are that you can create a function app and use it as a proxy to hide several other function apps. But it can be used for many other interesting things. […]
The Microsoft Bot framework makes it easy to build multi platform chat bots. The framework is extensible and offers developer a quick way to get started building bots. Unfortunately, the framework is also under rapid development, so the documentation is not complete and it can be hard to find up-to-date […]
Currently I’m spending some time prototyping different bots built with the Microsoft Bot framework. The other day I was going to try out the Facebook connector that allows your bot to talk to people using Facebook messenger. But before I started coding I want to get a sense of what […]
As a true Christmas tradition I have to post a blog article during the Christmas days. This year, I will show how you can remote control the headless browser PhantomJS using the open standard protocol WebDriver (also used by the Selenium project). The PhantomJS browser will run inside a Docker […]
Everything requires you to be online nowadays, from time to time that can be pretty frustrating if you are traveling place where you know you won’t have internet. Youtube contains a lot of great content, but because they make money by showing advertisements (and a lot of them) the they […]
Today Microsoft released new connectors for Microsoft Flow. Normally I wouldn’t care about it, but today’s release contains two interesting connectors for APIs that I care about. One is the PowerBI connector that I’m sure I will find a use for. The other is the Azure Resource Manager connector. I […]
Microsoft just released the ability to schedule shutdown of Azure Resource Manager VMs. The feature has previously only been available in dev test labs, but is now also usable for stand alone VMs. Unfortunately the feature is pretty limited, it can trigger a shutdown at a specific time, and 15 […]
At today’s Connect event Microsoft revealed the option to run docker containers inside Linux Azure Web Apps. Linux Azure Web Apps are in preview and is what the name implies web apps but on a Linux host instead of Windows. A while back I participated in a Microsoft internal event […]