For a while we have been creating Power BI reports retrieving data from our API. This works quite nice, but our API has OAuth2 authentication & authorization in place. So far, we added a manually created access token to the data source and updated it on a regular basis. While this works, it’s not a very solid approach.
I figured we can (and should) do better so decided to investigate a bit on the topic.
Read more →A request came by me to:
Get all the commits associated to a specific release, based on the previous succesful release.
The fun thing is, we’re using Azure DevOps.
Easy right?
Well, that’s what I thought, because this information is readily available in the web interface of Azure DevOps.
As the saying goes:
We do things not because it is easy, but because we thought it would be easy!
This phrase applies to the above request.
Read more →Have you ever been on a project where an API returns a response that you can’t, or don’t want to, handle in your own application? Or a customer asks to generate a different response?
Yeah, me neither…
If you ever come across a project, where they want you to return a response like this:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK Connection: Keep-Alive Transfer-Encoding: chunked Content-Type: application/json Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2024 20:59:21 GMT { "error": 404, "status": "NotFound", "description": "Could not find the object" } This post is for you!
Read more →For those of you who are reading my posts from time to time, you probably know one of my side projects is a URL minifier solution. It’s one of those services which I’ve created to learn about specific Azure services. I’m still making improvements to it and sometimes adding new features to it altogether.
With the focus on AI and large language models in just about everything nowadays, it is time for me to add it to the URL minifier too.
Read more →For those of you who are following me on Twitter, you might have seen my Philips Hue bridge was acting up in the past couple of months. Major bandwith usage, automations not being triggered at the appropriate times, and even the internet connectivity wasn’t working anymore. The bridge is also about 14 years old, so it might have been its time to shut down.
A relative cheap solution would be to buy a new Philips Hue bridge and set that up.
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