A daily newsletter about automation and eliminating friction.
Extension methods on Enums? Do you sometimes feel restricted by the Enum type in C#? You want to give it a little bit extra behavior by adding a method? Currently you can't add extension methods to Enums. Some other programming languages do offer this capability which...
The New Outlook? The new outlook desktop client is basically the web version, which is a strange approach by Microsoft. You are not using the benefits of being a Windows application, like more integration into the OS. Power Users are complaining about the loss of...
I always bluff in Planning Poker
OpenTelemetry.Instrumentation.DataverseServiceClient v1.1 is released In this update the DbStatement tag is added to CRUD operations on a single entity, like Create, Update, Delete and Retrieve. It will fill the DbStatement with a SQL statement that represents the...
Editable grid control not working anymore? Since last week, the Power App grid control in a Model-driven app of my customer can't be used anymore for editing. You can still change the values in the view, but the changes are not being saved. Is there anyone in my...
Don't put Tasks in your Calendar My calendar is a crucial tool in my daily life. I tried ways of planning my life. One way was to plan everything. Even bringing my son to school, having lunch and dinner. That was a mistake. Every day I was re-scheduling tasks from the...
How do marketers measure campaign success? The secret lies in UTM codes, essential tools in digital marketing analytics. UTM codes decode each click, revealing the effectiveness of your marketing endeavors across varied channels and campaigns. But here's the surprise...
Remember your first time wrestling with Dependency Injection (DI) or Inversion Of Control (IoC)? I do. And it was like trying to decode a foreign language. When Castle Windsor and other similar projects were starting to take the limelight, I won't deny it - I was...
HTMX proves you don't need the complexity of React, Angular or Vue. The stack and build steps are getting insane with all these JavaScript frameworks. HTMX reduces the complexity of the stack, by removing layers. SPA: DB - Backend-logic - JSON - Frontend-logic - HTML...
What makes SPAs feel modern? Because Single-Page Applications feel fast. This is largely due to targeted partial page rendering: the strength of SPAs. HTMX allows you to build the same modern-feeling apps, just simpler, faster and cheaper. It allows you to do a...
I almost never Debug my code. Somehow this is strange in the eyes of fellow developers. They can't image coding without a debugger. For example, I have never felt the need to attach a debugger to a deployed Dynamics 365 Plugin. Never! Ok, one time. I wanted to know...
Wild take about AOT: .NET Native AOT is not for making your containers smaller. It's to get Wasm assembly's smaller, so MS is in a good position for the next fase in web.
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Microsoft Power Platform Advisor with over 25 years of experience in IT with a focus on (marketing) automation and integration.
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A daily newsletter on automation and eliminating friction