Zapier is an automation tool that let’s you create workflows between your apps and services. I used Zapier to collect client reviews for the Van Gogh Museum from Facebook, Google and TripAdvisor. All these reviews are added to a single platform, the so-called ReviewTracker Platform. ReviewTracker created both a trigger and an action for Zapier. That’s why clients can use ReviewTracker from Zapier, once they are signed up
You can use Postman to write test scripts for automating the test process for REST services. The free version of Postman contains all the functionality you need.
You can get a formatted json file directly in Chrome by installing the JSONView extension.
For over two years I use Powershell to deploy my Logic Apps, API Apps and functions to Azure. The client moved from ADFS to Azure Active Directory Seamless Single Sign-On. I don’t know exactly what this means, to be honest, but what I do know is that I ran into problems with my Powershell scripts.…
For documentation of a REST service you can use a Javascript library called Mermaid (https://mermaidjs.github.io/). From the GitHub page, Mermaid is recommended as follows: Ever wanted to simplify documentation and avoid heavy tools like Visio when explaining your code? This is why mermaid was born, a simple markdown-like script language for generating charts from text…
I was working on a Windows Server 2012R2 machine. I had no idea where to find the Visual Studio command prompt. I used to work on a Windows Server 2016 machine. There it looks as follows: In Windows Server 2012R2, the Start menu simply looks like this: No idea how to get to the Visual…
Interesting interactive presentation tool: Mentimeter, including a limited free version. Go to https://www.mentimeter.com/ to check it out! Within a minute, you can make a presentation with a multiple choice question. Click on present and your audience can react live by going to www.menti.com and type in the code shown. Press the F key to go in…
Windows’ own native compression tool doesn’t support password-protecting your zip file, but many other well-known tools like 7-Zip, WinZip and WinRAR do. I used 7-Zip. When you add files to your .7z file, you can enter a password in the dialog box that appears. Easy peasy. Link: WindowsClub.com
I tried to connect to a FTPS server via FileZilla, but received the following error when trying to get the directory listing: “Server sent passive reply with unroutable address. Using server address instead.” Note that I can connect to the FTP server. Just not able to get to the directory listing. It turned out that…
This morning I experienced an unusual problem when setting up a remote desktop connection to my Azure VM. It turned out that the problem was caused by a Windows10 security update KB4103727. You will have to uninstall this update, because it’s too restrictive. I received the error below: Steps to resolve the issue: On the…