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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 principle is starting to get more and more...

'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 that book. One of them is to write Small focused...

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 first word. Using the heavy guns for this: Letting...

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 service call to another service call because they share...

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 excessively big, creating a lot of relations in all kinds of...

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 lot of legacy thinking around C# and .NET. 1️⃣ Only...

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 used to be for me 🤔. It's time to shatter that...

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 when the idea was that XHTML was the future. I was...

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, it makes programming to a API in C# so much...

Small, Daily Steps to Success! Success isn't birthed from grand, one-time events. It's the result of consistent, everyday actions. For instance, reading 10 pages daily trumps consuming a book in one...

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 being used out in the wild? You can create a...

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 handcuffed by the need for approvals. It's a common...