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Dynamics 365 Customer Insights is here It's a combination of two existing apps: - Dynamics 365 Marketing (journey) - Dynamics 365 Customer Insights...

Ever heard of LOGAF? LOGAF stands for 'Level of Giving a Fuck' and, trust me, it's not just a fancy term. It’s a life-altering philosophy you'll...

Think it's necessary to mock ILogger? Using Moq or NSubstitute to do this? Think again. In the C# world, many developers do this - but there's a...

Missing the metro isn't a big deal... If you know another one's just five minutes away! 🕐 Ever felt the same about software releases? 🤔 If you can...

Hard work vs. smart work An age-old debate. Ever thought 'busy' might be a trap? It's not the hours we pour into work, but the work we pour into...

Entitled Open-Source Users! Yesterday, I touched on Moq... It had included a 'SponsorLink', causing a bit of a stir with email fiddling. 📧 Its...

Remove Moq now! Using Moq for dotnet mocking? 👀Watch out! Since version 4.20, they've introduced a sneaky SponserLink. What does it do? It scans for...

Software development - a love that consumes you ❤️ Steals your hours ⏰, your camaraderie 🤝, even your romance 💑 Despite your best intentions to...

Developers are masochists 😈 They enjoy the thrill of the challenge... 🎢 Where the compiler turns them down 99% of the time 🚫, yet they persist to...

Make HTML More Powerful! 💪 Four issues with HTML: 1. Why should only 'a' and 'form' element 🔤 be able to make HTTP requests? 2. Why should only...

Politics in your company grinding your progress? 🎲 Political games - they're a reality inside companies 🏢. It doesn't seem fair, but the question...

Scrum sabotaging dev productivity? I am spotting a pattern lately. Developers doing less and less😯. Why? Estimates are getting increasingly bloated...

Integration testing – it's not a choice, it's a no-brainer! Seems like these days I'm all about integration testing. 📝🔍 Yeah, unit tests? They're...

No more Dynamics 365 Marketing. It merges with Dynamics 365 Customer Insights to become a single AI solution. The fusion results in two apps within...

Dive into Dynamics 365 & Power Platform Wave 2 '23 plans - it's all about Copilot! Get the details:...

Scrum has become a cult, even a religion 🛐✝️🕌. If I dare hint that Scrum might be causing a bit of unproductivity, I'm smacked with "you're not...

Embracing the trend of going paperless? 📝➡️🗑️ Let's talk about frictionless too. A topic often ignored. 🚫🔥 Downloading a PDF that you need to fill...

Strive for few dependencies Every package that you add to your code is yet another dependency to your project. This dependency is not for free. You...

Start simple with Git. With feature branches on the main branch: GitHub Flow. But consider this 🤔: Why create a branch for a feature that can be...