Salesforce data import / export

I was checking out importing and exporting data from Salesforce. Salesforce provides reasonable documentation at their trail-head and it’s worth the time to understand what’s available with the platform. These solutions provide point solutions to move data...

Issue logging into Visual Studio 2017

I had a devil of a time logging into Visual Studio 2017. Turns out my credentials were cached in the .IdentityService folder under AppData. Deleting the .IdentityService folder finally solved the issue for...

Pushing row data rom Treasure Data to Azure SQL

I wanted to push data from Treasure Data into Azure SQL. The data was row based and roughly about 1 TB in size. As I examined my options, there were quite a few, however, in the end, it turned out that the easy options were just not enough. I’ll walk through the...

Npm and Node.js behind proxy

If you are behind a proxy, you’ll need to tell Node about the proxy. Normally, I would expect setting HTTP_PROXY and HTTPS_PROXY environment variables to do the trick. However, in the case of node, the commands you’re after are: npm config set proxy...