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Power Automate vs Logic Apps

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Friday, July 5, 2024 | 1 minute Read

From Model Railroads to Azure Architect: Barret Blake's Journey and the Future of AI

Chatting with nz365guy about model railroading, being an MVP and Power Automate, among other things.

Thursday, July 4, 2024 | 1 minute Read

KCDC 2024 Slidedeck

For those who are interested, here’s the slidedeck from my KCDC 2024 talk “What’s new in EF Core 8” Whats-New-In-EF-8

Friday, June 28, 2024 | 1 minute Read

My Favorite Podcasts & Video Channels - 2024 Edition

About once a year I update my list of favorite podcasts and video channels. Here’s a list of what I’m in to these days: Tech Related DotNetRocks For years now, Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell have brought us a steady stream of the greatest minds in the industry. One of the very first podcasts, and still one of the best to be found anywhere. Maybe one day they’ll even interview me. Lol.

Thursday, June 13, 2024 | 3 minutes Read

Intro to Power Automate Updated

Video from you YouTube channel. Intro to Power Automate Updated

Thursday, June 6, 2024 | 1 minute Read

New Video - Updated Intro to Power Automate

It felt like time to redo my Power Automate intro video.

Thursday, June 6, 2024 | 1 minute Read

Explain Yourself, Citizen - Effective Logging for Applications

Video from you YouTube channel. Explain Yourself, Citizen - Effective Logging for Applications

Wednesday, May 15, 2024 | 1 minute Read

Post A Message To Teams Chat

It’s long past time I had a new blog post. I’ve been focused so much lately on speaking opportunities and mentoring efforts that I haven’t posted much to my blog. So, here’s a new one I found useful a while back. Scenario In our scenario, we have a support email that gets emails when someone fills out a form on a website. The problem is that not much notice gets paid to the inbox and messages could go ignored for hours, or even days. We want to raise awareness of issues sooner so that appropriate actions can be taken. In this case, when we get an email, we’ll post a message into our Teams chat.

Thursday, April 25, 2024 | 4 minutes Read

More Fun with images

I thought it would be fun to try another experiment with images. I came across a post on Buzzfeed the other day. You know the kind of posts they do, where they steal images from other websites, and string them together into an inane article while barely giving credit to the source in tiny little letters? This article was about funny posts on Facebook Marketplace, where people are selling things, but aren’t quite sure how they’re spelled.

Tuesday, February 20, 2024 | 2 minutes Read

How do I get started with Power Automate?

When I speak at conferences or user groups about Power Automate, one of the questions I get asked the most (aside from how to understand the confusing licensing), is how to get started with Power Automate, or the Power Platform in general. I thought I would write a post on the best ways to get started. Microsoft Learn In recent years Microsoft has invested heavily in creating free online training for a great many of their products. And most of that learning can be found on the Microsoft Learn site. The modules are the individual courses and the learning paths group several modules together into a cohesive learning track. For Power Automate, there are a few learning paths that I want to highlight.

Tuesday, February 6, 2024 | 5 minutes Read

2023 Festive Tech Calendar - Soft Skills for Developers

Here is my contribution to the 2023 Festive Tech Calendar. It’s a video on the importance of soft skills for developers. It’s an area that we, as a whole, aren’t great at. And we could really use some improvement. Check it out. Maybe some of the tips will help you. Also, Festive Tech Calendar this year is calling for donations to the Raspberry Pi Foundation. Please contribute!!

Wednesday, December 27, 2023 | 1 minute Read

AI Still Has A Major Problem With Race and Gender

AI has a serious problem. Ok, it’s got a lot of problems. It’s not a panacea that will solve all the issues that business, or the world, faces. Neither is it Skynet or the world ending evil super AI Tom Cruise goes off to battle. It has great potential for both good and ill, but it’s still a long way from either. And yes, I know what I’m going to point out in this post is nothing new. But I felt I needed to add to the voices calling out some of it’s greatest deficiencies. In this particular case, I’m talking about sexism and racism.

Thursday, December 21, 2023 | 4 minutes Read