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Software development - a love that consumes you ❤️ Steals your hours ⏰, your camaraderie 🤝, even your romance 💑 Despite your best intentions to balance it, the scales ⚖️ tip towards it. The real twist? You sort of enjoy this imbalance 😅. After all, it's your passion...
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 it work. 💪 Just a thought...🧐
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 click & submit events 👆 trigger them? 3. Why should only GET & POST methods 📥 be available? 4. Why should you only...
In my journey, I've wrestled with Angular, tangoed with Vue and flirted with React. But here's the catch: 😬 You've got to fully commit and cross your fingers that your prized framework doesn't succumb to the allure of the next shiny tech star. Enter, Svelte 🚀 An...
Politics in your company grinding your progress? 🎲 Political games - they're a reality inside companies 🏢. It doesn't seem fair, but the question is, do you stand against it 👊 or learn the rules and play 🤝? "Every unsuccessful person I know believes the game is rigged...
Scrum sabotaging dev productivity? I am spotting a pattern lately. Developers doing less and less😯. Why? Estimates are getting increasingly bloated 🎈. What's inflating these estimates? It's down to estimate meetings. Some people find tasks difficult; others don't dare...
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 alright but, man, do they fall apart when something changes. Brittle like a stale cookie! They got their use though,...
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 this offering: 1️⃣ Customer Insights – Data => now known as Dynamics 365 Customer Insights. 2️⃣ Customer Insights –...
Dive into Dynamics 365 & Power Platform Wave 2 '23 plans - it's all about Copilot! Get the details: https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/dynamics365/bdm/2023/07/18/2023-release-wave-2-plans-for-microsoft-dynamics-365-and-power-platform-now-available/ Dynamics 365...
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 doing it right" 🙅♂️. Apparently, I'm not strict enough in adhering to the rules or have somehow misinterpreted them 🧐....
Embracing the trend of going paperless? 📝➡️🗑️ Let's talk about frictionless too. A topic often ignored. 🚫🔥 Downloading a PDF that you need to fill it in and then upload it again... Yes, it's digital but you added more friction for the customer. 🚧 These are what I call...
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 take on the risk of the dependency. Do you know the quality of the code? Do you know the experience of the programmer...
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Microsoft Power Platform Advisor with over 25 years of experience in IT with a focus on (marketing) automation and integration.
Helping organizations with scaling their business by automating processes on the Power Platform (Dynamics 365).
Expert in Power Platform, Dynamics 365 (Marketing & Sales) and Azure Integration Services. Giving advice and strategy consultancy.
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