Last week, I completed the certification exam for "Azure data engineer associate" (DP-203). Since I put in quite some effort and successfully completed the exam in one go, I wanted to share how I studied and which materials I studied . First of al, my background is not in the data world. This means that I was …

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Last week I found a little gem that is too good to keep it for myself. For years, I have been using (and working with) Microsoft Azure and in all this time and it is only now that this cool website pops up! In order to better understand what I'm talking about, I need to go a little more in detail in the design process …

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Today, I'm going to write about a lesser known feature that you can find in Microsoft Edge (but also in Google Chrome). Both are chromium based browsers and both have the well known and widely used "Guest mode". This mode allows you to work in Edge (or in chrome) without the (security) context that you have …

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This morning I saw a colleague working in Git-Bash and the good-old-fashioned "windows command line" and I thought to myself, why doesn't he "just" use Windows terminal? So, I showed him Windows Terminal and he was impressed. First thing he asked then, was if it would be possible to add Git-Bash as …

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For years and years, we all have been copying an pasting stuff on our PC. Chances are real that you typically had to copy specific things over and over again and that this action cost you a lot of time. The so called "problem" was that there could be only one item stored in the clipboard and each time …

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This morning, I tried setting up an Azure Active Directory B2C tenant and link it to a newly created Azure subscription. Everything seemed to be OK until I clicked on the "create button". Almost immediately, I got an error stating the following: I thought it was related to the fact that it was a …

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When you work with Azure (DevOps) Pipelines and use Azure Repos (Git) in combination with Git submodules, then there are a few things that you need to take into account if you want to use those submodules in your build pipeline(s) an if you want those pipelines to successfully 😉 I'm writing this here because we have …

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Over the past few years, A lot of you all have been adopting Visual Studio Code as your primary "Code editor/workspace". One of the biggest issues that I have, is that I really love working with VSCode and here is why that is an issue for me: For the last few weeks/months, I've had to work on (remote) …

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If you are in an enterprise context where you work with .net development teams, the chances are real that they use a "Visual studio license" and that this license is managed in what is called an "Enterprise Agreement". This agreement allows organizations to buy "Visual Studio Licenses" …

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In previous posts, I wrote about migrating builds to TeamCity and after that back to Azure DevOps . Next to that, I talked about "setting up an Enterprise Cake build framework" and getting Cake to work in Azure DevOps (artifacts) to make those migrations easier in an enterprise context, where a lot of build …

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My last few posts have been about Cake build and Azure DevOps and in this post I will again talk about those 2. This time I will talk about running Cake in an Azure Pipeline and having it work with Azure Artifacts . What? Azure Artifacts Azure Artifacts can be seen as a private repository for your reusable assets …

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Last week I wrote about two related topics that can be seen as a basis for this post: (1) Cake in the enterprise which is about building your enterprise applications with Cake (at scale) and what you need to do to make it manageable and (2) Migrating your builds to Azure DevOps pipelines which is about migrating …

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This weeks post is one with a lot less text! I really dislike having to click around in the UI of an OS/application to get things done and I love it whenever that I can take a shortcut to shave off a few seconds of the time that I would need otherwise! It happens regularly that I see other people working and see them …

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I'm in the process om migrating a whole bunch of builds from TeamCity to Azure DevOps and the entire process is automated. (I'm writing a blogpost on this, stay tuned if you are interested in this). Today, one of the builds that I'm migrating, gave me an error when I did a test. It struck me a bit as "a strange …

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In some organizations, finding a moment to discuss something with the right stakeholders, is such a painful undertaking that you have to plan weeks in advance (only to get cancellations just before "the big moment" arrives). This is a real issue that a lot of people have to deal with on a (very) frequent …

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