a developer's notebook
Azure Storage is a cloud storage solution for data storage scenarios and one key service, among others, is Azure Blobs, a scalable object store for text and binary data. A main use is to upload files to it, either as a long term backup solution, or as a way to serve documents, images and videos directly to a browser. To do so, you…
Something new in Azure App Service’s overview blade, is the addition of a new tool for diagnosing and solving problems. It makes it easier to distinguish issues between your code and platform related problems, and provides some quick solutions, tailored to the problems you might experience. You get a view of the health of your application and platform, as well…
Dash is an API Documentation Browser and Code Snippet Manager. It stores snippets of code and instantly searches offline documentation sets for 200+ APIs, 100+ cheat sheets and more. It helps you keep all the APIs, from the different languages you are using, in a central location. The only problem is that it only runs on Mac OS. However, there is a solution to that,…
In this page you will find tools, related to Networking, to make your Azure journey easier and more fun. Azure Speed Test A simple web tool that measures the latency between you and Azure Datacenters, to suggest which might be fastest for your location. Fiddler (Telerik) A classic tool to debug and monitor traffic between your PC and the Internet….
In this page you will find tools, related to Azure Storage Services, to make your Azure journey easier and more fun. Azure Storage Explorer (Free) A stand-alone app from Microsoft that allows you to easily work with Azure Storage data on Windows, macOS and Linux. AzCopy AzCopy is a command-line utility, designed for copying data to and from Microsoft Azure…
Azure App Service Editor, formerly known as Visual Studio Online (Monaco), is a web-based editor for App Service, that looks a lot like VS Code and allows you to modify files already deployed to Azure Web Apps. App Service Editor is based on monaco-editor, an open-source project which is generated straight from VS Code’s sources, with some shims to make it work…
Sometimes, the response from a request is required first in order to continue with all the other API requests currently stored in your Postman folders. Think of a request that, in order to return results, it requires from you to be authenticated, so a typical workflow would be: authenticate yourself with a proper username and password; get an authentication token; update…
In Connect(); // 2015 while watching Scott Hanselman’s Keynote on “The Microsoft Cloud Platform for Developers” I noticed a new tool called “Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer“. It’s a new tool that provides a file explorer for your Azure Blob Storage accounts, enabling you to easily work with your assets and containers from Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux. Features currently available in this Preview version Mac OS…
If you are into developing using node you might end up with a lot of dependencies installed in your machine that might be outdated and finding what to update might be quite tricky. npm-check comes to help as a package that checks for outdated, incorrect, and unused dependencies allowing you to update them easily. So for example if you want to upgrade…
Chrome developer tools is a suite of tools that helps every web developer to develop, test and debug web sites and applications directly from the Google Chrome browser. Some might argue that it comes only in “White”, however there is a hidden feature that can change the color so as to personalize it based on your preferences. ZeroDarkMatrix is a very nice option for developers who prefer dark…
