Hosk’s recommended Dynamics 365/Power Platform and other articles May 2019

 

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— Ben Hosking (@BenHosk) June 7, 2019

Quotes

When the pressure is on you don’t rise to the occasion, you fall to your highest level of preparation – Chris Voss

Articles of the Month

Great resource below showing all the new certifications and resources to study

• Microsoft Dynamics 365 / Power Platform Training and Exams 2019

Great Dynamics 365/Power Platform articles this month

• Dynamics 365 Webhooks introduction
• Study guide for MB-230 Dynamics 365 for customer engagement for Customer Service
• Microsoft forms pro
• Replacing a Dynamics 365 Dialog with an Embedded Canvas PowerApp
• Introducing — The Omni-channel Engagement Hub
• Developer Viewpoint — Life of a Dynamics 365 Developer
• building apps faster than before
• Announcing Dual Write Preview
• Use webhooks to create external handlers for server events
• Developer Viewpoint -JavaScript and Dynamics 365
• Microsoft Flow Monitoring
• Automatically update the stage of a Business Process Flow with Flow
• Using Dynamics 365 Webhooks as the third way to trigger Flow
• Capgemini Microsoft Team — A Functional Consultant’s First Month
• PowerApps “Starter” Plans Capabilities Demystified
• canvas apps an navigate resfresh and save
• Reasons to Use the New View Designer for Dynamics 365 and Model Driven PowerApps
• Creating Surveys Using Microsoft Forms Pro
• Run Automated Tests When Your D365 CE Org Gets Updated
• PowerApps: Extending custom code with custom Azure Functions
• DevOps for Dynamics 365
• Replace dialogs with business process flows or canvas apps
• Build and deployment automation of PowerApps & Flow using Azure DevOps
• Autonumber fields are now supported by the modern entity designer

Programming/Scrum

• The prepared developer writes better code
• Code review best practices – how they do code reviews at Microsoft
• Adventures in Infrastructure as Code: Lessons learnt using Azure ARM templates
• Five reasons companies keep turning to DevOps even after a decade
• Future of .NET (.NET 5?), Microsoft Build 2019 from a .NET developer point of view
• Recommended reading for software engineers
• Introduction to thread synchronization
• What is DevOps
• Azure Architecture Center
• Martin Fowler on Technical debt
• Anti Patterns of Continuous Integration
• 7 years as a developer — lessons learned
• Forget Technical Debt — Here’s How to Build Technical Wealth
• Stack overflow survey 2019
• The Three Little Creational Patterns – A Design Patterns Intro
• Enough with the User Stories already!
• Empathy-Driven Development: How Engineers Can Tap into This Critical Skill
• When to Ask for Help
• SOLID Principles — explained with examples

Other/Business/Leadership/Management

• Death by PowerPoint: the slide that killed seven people
• Nadella’s first five years as Microsoft’s CEO: Pragmatism is the watchword
• farmers binge netflix whilst plowing fields
• 5 Strategies for Getting More Work Done in Less Time
• How to Stay Fit Physically and Mentally and Keep Coding
• 8 Ways to Read the Books You Wish You Had Time For
• Gates’s Law: How Progress Compounds and Why It Matters
• Tim Flowers on managing solihull moors
• PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT-The Wolf of Wall Street: Straight Line Persuasion Review
• Why introverts make great leaders

The Hosk – currently reading

• Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility
• The Power of A Positive No
• Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade
• Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World 
• A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas

The Hosk – last 5 recommendations

• Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong
• Captivate: The Science of Succeeding with People
• Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization
• The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups 
• Saban- Making of a coach

Selected  HoskWisdom

• There is nothing sexy about underwear when you are hanging it on the washing line #HoskWisdom
• Don’t respond to anger with shouting, be silent and confuse them #HoskWisdom
• Imagination exhausts itself with the endless possibilities of code #HoskCodeWisdom
• When a project isn’t working, you have to stop playing the game #hoskcodewisdom
• Writing good code is like being sexy, if you have tell people you are, you aren’t #HoskCodeWisdom
• Code is as complex as you make it #HoskCodeWisdom 
• Clothes matter, naked developers have little or no influence on projects #hoskcodewisdom
• Good developers bring joy when they join a project; bad developers bring joy when they leave a project #HoskCodeWisdom
• Coding is mastered through relentless commitment to the fundamentals #HoskCodeWisdom
• When you approach the end of a project, you finally see the requirements and solution as they really are. If only we understood that at the start #HoskCodeWisdom 
• no project plan survives contact with delivery #HoskCodeWisdom
• Customers are a welcome thorn in a developers side #HoskCodeWisdom 

• You must have chaos within you to be able to dad dance #HoskWisdom
• It’s not the skills of the people on team but how will they work together that makes the biggest difference #HoskWisdom
• Earn confidence by being good at what you do #HoskWisdom
• Everyone wants to be heard but no one wants to listen #HoskWisdom
• If you only learn in work, prepare to be average #HoskWisdom

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