I always wanted to have a boat. But you know what they say: there are two happy days in the life of every boat owner – the day they bought the boat and the day they sold it. Ah, you meant BOT? Oops… Well, same story, as it turned out, kind of “meet the creator” […]
Tip #890: Scratch the Surface – Adaptive Cards
Data visualizations have received their fair share of discussions at Microsoft Build 2017. One particular project did catch my attention – Adaptive Cards. What are Adaptive Cards Adaptive Cards are an open card exchange format enabling developers to exchange UI content in a common and consistent way. Why is it important to us? In Dynamics […]
Tip #888: Scratch the Surface – globalize your data
Unless you’ve been living and working under a rock, you’ve probably heard of the Connected Field Services. One of the important pieces of the infrastructure is something bundled under the generic term “databases”, referring to both Azure SQL and DocumentDB. Think of a storage for billions and trillions data points and you get the idea […]
Tip #886: Scratch the Surface – new age workflow
For years we’ve been whining about the workflow editor and rightly so. Can’t indent, can’t reorder, can’t copy, can’t paste. So many good man-hours lost in the battle against corrupted workflows… Every release we’ve been hoping for something better but to no avail. I suspect that the upcoming spring-make-it-late-summer release may too leave the workflow […]
Tip #884: Scratch the Surface – become a mad data scientist
A fortnight ago I’ve had a privilege, a luxury, and a duty (trying to pass for a real developer) to attend CRMUG Focus and Microsoft Build 2017, all within a space of 5 days. The best quote of the entire week came from one of the presenters who had about 4 or 5 Surface devices […]