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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.

  • flow
  • power-automate
  • teams
Thursday, April 25, 2024 | 4 minutes Read
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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.

  • ai
  • ai-art
  • images
Tuesday, February 20, 2024 | 2 minutes Read
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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.

  • flow
  • power-automate
Tuesday, February 6, 2024 | 5 minutes Read
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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!!

  • festive-tech-calendar
  • soft-skills
Wednesday, December 27, 2023 | 1 minute Read
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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.

  • ai
  • equality
  • racism
  • sexism
Thursday, December 21, 2023 | 4 minutes Read
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2023 C# Advent - What's New in Entity Framework Core 8

This video is my contribution to the 2023 C# Advent event. It’s a highlight of some of the cool new features available in Entity Framework Core 8. Be sure to check out all the other contributions!

  • C#
  • c-advent
  • entity-framework
Wednesday, December 13, 2023 | 1 minute Read
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2023 C# Advent - What's New in Entity Framework Core 8

2023 C# Advent - What’s New in Entity Framework Core 8.

  • C# Advent
  • podcasts
  • video
  • entity framework
Tuesday, December 12, 2023 | 1 minute Read
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2023 Festive Tech Calendar Soft Skills For Developers

2023 Festive Tech Calendar Soft Skills For Developers

  • Festive Tech
  • podcasts
  • video
  • soft skills
Friday, December 8, 2023 | 1 minute Read
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Copilot for Power Automate

Tis the season of copilots! Everybody gets a copilot! Image by DCStudio on Freepik No, not that kind of copilot. I’m talking about the kind of copilot that runs off of AI and helps you to do some kind of task. You know, all the copilots that Microsoft has recently announced that are getting added to literally EVERYTHING.

  • copilot
  • flow
  • power-automate
Wednesday, November 29, 2023 | 7 minutes Read
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Chatting With Azure Solutions Architect, Microsoft MVP, Developer, Microsoft Certified- Barret Blake

Talking with Smart Cherry about all kinds of things, including being an MVP.

  • Microsoft MVP
  • podcasts
  • Smart Cherry
Saturday, November 11, 2023 | 1 minute Read
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Slides from CincyDeliver

For those who attended my talk on Soft Skills for Developers at CincyDeliver last Friday, here’s the slide deck. When I get some spare time, I plan to rework the talk a little and record it for YouTube, but that’s a few weeks off. Soft Skills - Cincy Deliver

  • cincydeliver
Monday, July 31, 2023 | 1 minute Read
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Cleveland C#: Effective Application Logging for Maximum Success By Barret Blake

I got to present to the Cleveland C# user group about effective logging for applications.

  • Cleveland C#
  • podcasts
  • video
  • logging
Friday, June 23, 2023 | 1 minute Read
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