Get My Thoughts on Automation & Development

Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) I thought that SOP's would be useless for a solo entrepreneur. A SOP is a set of detailed step-by-step...

Scrum Sprints are relics of yesteryears. Two-week blocks? They don't function in the today's high-paced world. Continuous delivery is our reality...

MS Access is the original low-code / no-code tool. There I said it. It's not the flashiest, nor the newest. It doesn’t leverage AI or BI, and yes,...

Inbox Zero in Outlook? I try this using these features in Outlook: 🚩 Mark as Action Flag the email and Archive it. Now they are in your Todo list...

Can we Automate approvals? Has the approved has some secret knowledge? Ofcourse not! Usually the approvers checks a couple of sources to validate,...

No more exporting Environment Variable Values Next month, the default experience will no longer export environment variable values in your solution....

Can you trust an employee to make a photocopy? Imagine my surprise when I was renewing my visa in Malaysia. They had a unique rule. Civil servants...

Remove Approval steps! I always hear that they are really needed. Really? Give more trust to the employee. Trust that the employee does the right...

Some Canvas Apps shouldn't exist! I encounter countless Canvas Power Apps that implement parts of processes. Their magic lies in their ability to...

🧐 How to keep Account lean in Dataverse? Inheritance is not so useful in the OOP realm! 💥Bold statement, but why? Inheritance has a rigid structure,...

💡Tip: Why not use dotnet user-secrets for local dev team? The question arises often, but it's not team-friendly in an active codebase. Why? When...

Four stages to automation: 🗑️ The Reclaim Stage Dispose of the activities yielding minimal outcomes. You may need to remove unnecessary apps from...

💡 Fun fact: The journey is more important than the goal. Never spend 6 minutes doing something twice... when you could waste 6 hours failing to...

Ever thought about your best subscription? Here's mine: YouTube Premium. 🎥 Why? It's my go-to for News, Learning, Entertainment - you name it. I...

You need a customer service portal? Think again! Simply enabling customers to generate support tickets isn't the game-changer you might think it is....

.NET 8 launched with .NET Aspire. When you create a distributed cloud app, you have a lot of moving parts and technologies to cope with. You create...

.NET Blazor SSR looks very promising I was not so into Blazor client-side, I didn't see it as a proper alternative to existing JavaScript...

Useless Surface Headphones 2. I bought the Surface Headphones 2. Innovation with the dial ring, an office lifesaver. Part of my daily gear I use....

5 benefits of becoming a Dynamics 365 dev? I often try to persuade .NET devs to the dark side: Power Platform and Dynamics 365! They look at me with...