Migrating my Postman collections from one MS-Windows system to another

Right now I’m in the process of migrating developer stuff from my old MS-Windows pc to a new one. On the old machine I’ve used the Postman tool often to test and deploy new web-services. After having installed the tool on the new pc I wanted to copy my collections from the old pc. This article describes how to accomplish this.

• Start Postman on the old system
• My collections
  
• In the Menu Bar click on the Settings icon
  
• In the Settings dialog window, click on the Data tab
  
• Click on the Download button to download your collections in a dump file. The ‘Save As’ dialog window opens. Select a name and location on a file share that can be reached by the new PC.
  
• Save the file.
• Close the Postman tool on the old PC.
• Start the Postman tool on the new PC.
• In the Menu Bar click on the Settings icon.
• In the Settings dialog window, click on the Data tab.
• This time click on the ‘Select file’ button in the ‘Import Data’ section.
• In the ‘Open file’ dialog select the postman dump file you created in the file share.
• Click Open and that’s it. My collections are now available on the new PC.

Embedding a simple Bing map in a blog post

Simple test to embed a bing map in a Blogger blogpost with Windows Live Writer.

• open maps.bing.com
• search a location
• click on the ‘Share’ link at the upper right hand side of the map
• in the share dialog, click ‘Customize and preview’
  
• In the customiez embedded maps dialog, click on the map to place a pushpin (blue dot)
  
• Then click the Generate Code button, copy the code in this dialog window
  
• In windows Live Writer 2012, click on the ‘Source’ tab at the bottom of the Window.
• In the source view, paste your code
  
• Publish to your blog.

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Test RESTful API with Postman REST Client

Purpose

The Postman REST client aids in developing client software that needs to send and capture requests from RESTful web service APIs.

It is also a useful tool for the developer of the API because he can setup test examples, store them in text files and give them to the client developer as an example to develop his client and as an aid in debugging his client software.

Here you can read the Postman documentation

Install Postman REST client in MS-Windows with Google Chrome

• Start Google Chrome
• Go to the extensions page chrome://extensions/
• Click on Get more extensions
• In the find text box type: postman rest client
• The result is shown her
  
• In the ‘Postman – REST client (packaged app)’ frame, click on the FREE button.
• In the ‘Confirm New App’ dialog box, Click on ‘Add’ to install.
  
• The browser displays The Postman – REST client has been add to the new Chrome App Launcher
  
• You can effectively see the App Launcher in your Windows Taskbar. When you click on it the Launcher opens and the ‘'Postman” App is available
  
• Now you can launch Postman from the Launcher by clicking on its icon
  

Test a RESTful API with Postman