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A couple of hours ago, we updated Outlook Customer Manager – here is what we changed:
Pin your app, so it always stays open
One of the issues we found with Outlook Customer Manager, is remembering to open it. With today’s update you d… Continue reading Pinning, Sorting and our roll out – January Update
There was a lot of good stuff happening this week at Microsoft in education, communication, accessibility and industry news. Let’s dig in! To drive breakthroughs in education, Microsoft announced Intune for Education, a new, simple tool to help schools set up devices in classrooms and not have to touch them again for the rest of the year. The cloud-based application and service makes it easy for teachers and IT admins … Read more »
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Since Dead Rising 4 released on Dec. 6, players have killed over seven billion zombies, eclipsing the population of planet Earth. You’ve also taken over three million photos and selfies, eclipsing most of the Kardashian family on any given weekend. To offer current players further engagement with Frank’s world, I’m excited today to announce that we’re introducing two new game difficulty modes and releasing a Street Fighter outfit pack, both free to all players. This is accompanied by a patch fixing several bugs we’ve been tracking since launch. To attract new players to Dead Rising 4, we are also releasing… Continue reading New Difficulty Modes, Customization, Free Trial Coming to Dead Rising 4
One of the things I see allot is how hard it can be to setup a new Raspberry Pi. So when I saw this post from HackADay’s Gerrit Coetzee, I couldn’t pass it up…
“[David Ferguson] has put together a nice little tool called Pi Bakery. Half MIT Scratch, half configuration utility, it puts a nice visual face on all the various start-up scripts, and kludges that the Raspberry Pi community uses to configure the popular single board computer.
Raspberry Pi’s are a little weird. They mostly get crammed into the slots microcontrollers used to live in. The nice part about microcontrollers is that they just turn on and start going. There’s no OS to boot. No file system to mount. Of course the downside to microcontrollers is often that there’s no OS to boot and file system to mount. Regardless, mostly you’ve got to spend a bit configuring a Raspbian install before a Raspberry Pi really starts to encroach on the microcontroller’s territory.
Pi Bakery abstracts all this. You can drag blocks, representing scripts, in the order you’d like them run. If you want to your Pi to boot up, connect to WiFi, and then start a VNC server it’s as easy a dragging the blocks in the right order and filling in the blanks. You can see an example of it in operation in the video after the break.
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“The easiest way to setup a Raspberry Pi
Allows easy customisation of a standard Raspbian image.
Configure your Raspberry Pi to connect to your WiFi network as soon as it switches on for the very first time.
Automatically install a VNC server on your Pi the first time it boots up – so you can connect straight to it and start hacking.
Contribute your own blocks which can perform scripts and tasks, automating your Raspbery Pi’s setup.
Compatibility with both Windows and Mac – with Linux support coming soon – means that the same tool can be used by everyone.
Install programs, such as Apache and PHP on your Raspberry Pi the first time it boots up.
Once you’ve written your perfect Raspbian to an SD card, you can easily change it by reconnecting it to your computer. PiBakery will automatically detect this, and enable you to add, edit and remove scripts that you’ve previously added.
Every time a new version of Raspbian is released, you’ll have the option to download it so you can stay up to date.
All the blocks and setup tasks are stored centrally on GitHub, meaning that every time someone contributes a new block, everyone can benefit immediately from that change.
There’s a Mac and Windows download and the source is available too! https://github.com/davidferguson/pibakery/
How cool is that?
Brendan Burns (Partner Architect, at Microsoft & Kubernetes co-founder) returns to Azure Friday to chat with Scott Hanselman about using and maintaining a Kubernetes cluster in Azure Container Service (currently in Preview) using the Kubernetes com… Continue reading Using and Maintaining a Kubernetes Cluster in Azure Container Services | Azure Friday
In episode 115 of the Office 365 Developer Podcast, Richard diZerega and Andrew Coates discuss Microsoft and community announcements in January.
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Josh Caplan shows how to get started with the preview of Azure Analysis Services, which is built on the proven analytics engine in Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services. With Azure Analysis Services you can host semantic data models in the cloud. User… Continue reading Getting started with the Azure Analysis Services Preview
