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
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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
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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