JSON (Un)Escape
The FreeFormatter tool contains JSON Escape functionality and many other great tools, such as converters, encoders, formatters and validators for different formats. Check it out!
Category: Dev Tools
Postman Learning Center
To get a bit further in Postman, check out the Postman Learning Center. Especially valuable for professional test automation including scripts.
Outlook Add-In FindTime
Let’s say, you don’t know upfront what’s a convenient meeting time for all attendees. In that case you can add an add-in named FindTime to Outlook. When you create a new mail, a button New Meeting Poll will automatically be added to the toolbar.
Powershell script for APIManagementARMTemplateCreator fails
Microsoft announced that the PowerShell Gallery has deprecated Transport Layer Security (TLS) versions 1.0 and 1.1 as of April 2020. This means you suddenly can’t run Install-Module anymore. You will have to run a specific Powershell command to fix the issue:
Logic App Debugging in Serverless360
You can get an overview of logic app runs to find out which logic apps actually failed. Via the sequence number you can lookup the message in the servicebus.
Servicebus Tooling in Serverless360
You can use Serverless360 to execute a number of tasks on a servicebus queue or topic. You can for instance edit messages and perform a manual or automated resubmit.
Introducing Serverless360
Managing and monitoring of iPaaS applications via the Azure Portal only is often not enough. Via the Azure Portal, we can get insights into a single logic app or servicebus, but we will not have an overview of the entire process. Serverless360 formerly actually fills the gap. It allows for monitoring at the application level as well as a consolidated monitoring view.
ReviewTracker via Zapier
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
Test Automation in Postman
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.
Chrome JSONView extension
You can get a formatted json file directly in Chrome by installing the JSONView extension.