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Be a T-shape developer I always advocate developers to specialize when they are becoming senior. But don't lose track of the rest of the playfield....

OpenTelemetry for Dataverse ServiceClient? I love OpenTelemetry. It's so easy to plug in instrumentation and have a clear view of your distributed...

Nobody cares about bad code if it works. Besides you and your team, others don't care about the bad code that exists in your codebase. Management...

Locality of Behavior principle (LoB): "The behavior of a unit of code should be as obvious as possible by looking only at that unit of code." This...

'Functions need to do one thing'-mantra is wrong. Since Robert C. Marting wrote the book Clean Code, developers try to implement the guidelines from...

This time it's going to work: Papa! My first word of my son was 'apple'. Now tutoring my little daughter of 9 months to say 'papa' (daddy) as her...

Imagine if every microservice gave insights. And that every piece of code would do generate these insights in the same way? Could you link one...

When to create a Custom Activity? I'm always very reluctant to create Custom Activities. They come with a lot of bagage. Their stretch is...

Five myths about .NET and C# Why is .NET not popular with startups? This was a question asked on Reddit, where the main theme in the answers was a...

You hate doing Sales? Picture the pushy car salesperson who breathes down your neck. No one aspires to be that. Is that what sales is to you? It...

Don't use /> in HTML 🚫! I always thought I needed to close HTML tags properly, even for tags like <br/>🏷️. It was in the hype around 2000s...

Playing with Microsoft Kiota I needed to create a strong typed client in C# based on a OpenAPI or Swagger definition. I like these generated models,...

Small, Daily Steps to Success! Success isn't birthed from grand, one-time events. It's the result of consistent, everyday actions. For instance,...

Is Campaign still being used in Dynamics 365 Sales (CRM)? Campaign management has already been a long time in Dynamics 365 Sales, but is it still...

Think you need approval? Think again. In the fast-paced world of business, time is not just money; it’s everything. Yet, many processes are still...

You want to skip tests programmatically in xUnit? You can't do it. xUnit doesn't allow it. The annoying thing it is already been added to the...

My 7 favorite code review AI prompts: I often work in two separate modes when coding: Writing and Reviewing. In reviewing (editing) I focus on...

Should you be worrying about the layoffs in IT? Big IT compies are starting to lay off software engineers. Is this the start of major layoffs in the...

Improve Email Marketing with CRM integration 🚀 Notice your sales and marketing gears 🔩 straining? A simple fix might be at hand. Link your CRM to...

An efficient government sounds great until it isn't. I lived in the Netherlands most of my live. It has one of the most efficient governments in the...