Year: 2016

Speaking at Experts Live 2016

Thrilled to announce that my session has been selected for Experts Live 2016. As the website says: “Experts live is THE event covering Microsoft Azure, Office365, Enterprise mobility suite, Operations management suite, Hyper-V and Windows”. I will be bringing a little IoT to the mix with my session on how I used Azure IoT components to

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Changing jobs!

Having worked for four years at Atos now, early this year I began feeling like it might be time for something new. In these past four years I’ve learned a lot about how large companies work, having some of Hollands largest as my customers. It’s an intriguing world with it’s own problems, completely different from the

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[Azure] Logging out of Azure AD oauth

In a previous post you can read how I used Apache Cordova to create a client application that is linked to my back-end API hosted in Azure. For authentication, I made use of the built in authentication options of the Azure Mobile Apps plugin for Cordova (GitHub).  This plugin simplifies the authentication flow process, which uses server flow

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[Azure] Custom Function bindings + notification tags in Cordova apps

Previously I explained how I am using an Azure Notification Hub to send out notifications to a mobile application made with Cordova (read it here). This is cool, but in that scenario every notification was being sent out to every client. This is fine for some situations but in most cases you probably want some

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[Azure] Adding more intelligence to Stream Analytics queries

If you’ve read my previous blog on Azure Stream Analytics, you know how Stream Analytics can be used to process all sorts of incoming data and send the end result to one or multiple outputs. This is particularly useful for ensuring the right data is saved, manipulating the data before saving or only filtering out

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[Azure] Setting up continuous integration for (existing) Azure Functions

I a previous blog I showed how you might replace your existing Azure WebJobs with Azure Functions. If you’re creating these functions as part of a project, you’re bound to have some sort of source control solution in place and you might want to leverage the possibility to automatically deploy your code (aka continuous integration).

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[IoT] Aquarium monitor; Sending commands back to your hardware

Let’s start with some awesome news first! All of the sources for this project are now live on GitHub! Which doesn’t mean I’m close to being finished by the way, but it does allow you to take a look and maybe even contribute should you want to. This includes all of the code from the

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[O365] Deploying a SharePoint theme / branding using JavaScript only

With provider hosted add-ins being introduced in SharePoint 2013, the world of SharePoint devs shifted to using provisioning schemes to get their stuff in SharePoint sites. And this worked, quite well i might add. You might have read my post on SPMeta2 vs PnP (which is a bit outdated I must add). These provisioning engines

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[Column] Waarom 2 kinderen meer dan genoeg is

Alweer een tijdje geleden dat ik op mijn blog een column schreef. Ik weet niet eens zeker of dit stuk wel kwalificeert als column, maar goed. De laatste weken zijn wij thuis steeds bewuster aan het worden rondom wat we “verbruiken” aan eten. Dat begon bij de frisdrank door wat beter te kijken naar het

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Web API controller hosted in Azure not respecting [AllowAnonymous]

Working on a project, I encountered a situation I couldn’t wrap my head around. The project includes a (rather simple) ASP.NET Web API project which is published to an Azure App Service instance. Up to now, all of the endpoints I was calling I had secured using Azure AD authentication which is a breeze to

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