If you want to test Delegation limits in your Power App quickly, go to Settings and change the Data row limit to 1. This will ensure your app breaks if you are not accounting for Delegation. It’s better to test for this now than wait until your users use the app in production.
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Co-authoring is coming soon to Power Apps. This means we can have multiple people in the same app simultaneously! Those who use Power Apps with a team today know this is a big deal.
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It happens to even the best of us. Picture taken at the MPPC Conference Keynote.
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I spent my first day at the Microsoft Power Platform Conference in Orlando, attending an all-day workshop by Shane Young where I learned more about Microsoft Dataverse for Teams.
Before starting the workshop, the room played “Heads or Tails” (about 160-200 people, maybe), and I won! I got a nice water bottle from PowerApps911 with a picture of Chewy front and center!
First, Shane is much taller than I envisioned after watching him on his YouTube channel for so long.
Now that’s out of the way, the workshop itself was great. I was already familiar with Microsoft Dataverse and Microsoft Teams, so I didn’t learn anything mind-blowing (except being able to copy and paste a modern calendar component into a classic Power App), yet there were so many nuances and tidbits that Shane shared along the way that made it worthwhile. I still learned about licensing, security, Dataverse for Teams limitations, Power Virtual Agents, and more.
I enjoyed Shane’s method of explaining how Dataverse for Teams creates a “bubble,” As long as you create within the bubble, licensing is included with your Microsoft Teams license. But outside the bubble, you need additional licensing of some sort.
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I just finished (for now) updating my Micro.blog website theme. I tweaked the colors, fonts, and header. Added a Surprise link that loads a random post and the Bookshelf that shows books I’m reading and interested in. Also, experimenting with the Newsletter feature.
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Just received my physical copy of Daily Creative: A Practical Guide for Staying Prolific, Brilliant, and Healthy by Todd Henry 📚
This book was highly recommended. I’ll try to take my time and read it as intended, one day at a time.
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I’m looking forward to heading to Orlando for the Microsoft Power Platform Conference all next week! #MPPC22
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I was listening to this episode of The Rework Podcast by the guys at 37signals. It was a great reminder that we tend to overcomplicate things when building technical solutions. Sometimes, we do it for the challenge, and as developers, it’s fun. Often we miss the point. What’s the end goal?
For example, I was just working with a customer who wanted us to update our existing application to allow batching records together based on complicated logic. We spent hours thinking of a solution. Then someone asked, why do they need this? Oh, so one admin can run a report that shows all the records in a batch. Can’t we add a checkbox to allow the admin to select which records they want to include in the report? Yes! Well, that makes things much easier!
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How to overwrite your cognitive scripts - nesslabs.com
Cognitive scripts are based on the semantic memory, or the knowledge we acquire throughout our lives. Semantic memory develops when we experience events in the everyday world, such as how to travel by public transport or the steps involved in eating in a restaurant. We organise our experiences into cognitive scripts that are personal to us, and these scripts may vary depending on our perception of a situation and the cultures we identify with. - Dr. Hannah England
We can overwrite our cognitive scripts by journaling, reset the scripts that don’t work for us, and go off script and take risks.
Cognitive scripts are based on our beliefs, created during our lifetime. Habits are more about the actions we take.
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The toolbar that appears in a document library (or list) in SharePoint Online can be customized (to an extent). We can hide, rename, change the icon, and even rearrange the commands. Here is an example of a default library. By default, we see commands to create documents, Upload, Edit in Grid View, Sync, Add shortcuts to OneDrive, Pin to Quick Access, Export to Excel, and many more below the sub-menu. Here is an example of the library toolbar that has nearly everything hidden. -
Did you know Microsoft Edge has a built-in Citation tool? Go to Settings > Appearance > Toggle on the Citations button.
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When writing text in Microsoft Power Apps controls, you may sometimes need to add a double quote as part of your text. Power Apps uses the Power Fx language. You must convert the " to &Char(34) to encode it into the correct character.
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Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
I have started to tackle Meditations. I usually don’t read this book, but I thought I would try it. I am taking notes as I go. I just write down what comes to mind as I read each part, even if my interpretation is completely off. Introduction His real name is Marcus Annius Verus.- Born in A.D. 121.- “Meditations” was not intended to be published. Marcus was writing to himself.- Marcus does not mention Stoicism. -
Becoming a Full-Time Creator as a Software Engineer: Controversial Advice - The Pragmatic Engineer
If you’re someone with years, or decades of experience working in tech, you can likely just sell your sawdust: things that are already in your head, like your past experience.
This was a great article that talks about various ways to make a living as a creator.
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“Loading everyone to 100% of capacity has the same effect as loading a highway to 100% of capacity: No one can make any progress.” (Mike Cohn, Agile Estimating and Planning)
I love this quote. So true!
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I Didn't Do The Thing Today
While over the past decade, “Productivity” books try to teach you how to be productive and get things done, “I Didn’t Do The Thing Today” jumps on the recent “Anti-productivity” bandwagon and reminds us that to be genuinely productive, we need to relax, rest, and embrace the unexpected. I Didn’t Do The Thing Today by Madeleine Dore Key Ideas We can’t compare how productive we are to others because we all have unique circumstances and objectives. -
The true purpose of a Zettelkasten
A Zettelkasten is a box of notes. Luhmann’s workflow to take and organize notes became synonymous with Zettelkasten. When we hear the word Zettelkasten today, we think of the workflow process, not necessarily a box of index cards.
I posted an essay about the true purpose of a Zettelkasten. My understanding has changed over the past year.
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Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
Finished reading: Project Hail Mary: A Novel by Andy Weir 📚. Project Hail Mary is a story by the same author of The Martian, Andy Weir. While The Martian’s story is grounded in the science we understand today, Project Hail Mary goes beyond that and adds more sci-fi but does so without breaking the rules of science. The other difference between The Martian and Project Hail Mary is the scope. In The Martian, Mark Watney is stranded on Mars and needs to figure out how to get home. -
Novelty fallacy: why new isn’t always better - Ness Labs
The novelty bias is a form of informal logical fallacy, where we consider that something is better simply because it’s new. Of course, in some cases, novelty seeking does correlate with benefits. For example, a newer computer may offer improved speed and performance. However, not all new ideas and objects will offer benefits over something older or more established.
It’s always easy to see the latest tech innovations (like iPhones) and convince ourselves that we need them. If we think about the pros and cons and let them sit in our minds for a while. We’ll either forget about it or convince ourselves we don’t need it. In rare cases, the new toy improves our life.
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Currently reading: Clean Architecture: A Craftsman’s Guide to Software Structure and Design (Robert C. Martin Series) by Martin Robert C. 📚
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The Readwise Reader app has come a long way over the past year. With built-in RSS, Email, and Twitter support, it has replaced many of my other apps. It’s also just a great reading experience. Powerful on desktop, simple on mobile!
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Why do applications have a big, bright “Share” button right in the middle of an otherwise clean and simple screen? Are they trying to encourage sharing so more people know about the application? It’s annoying.
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I’m going to try out this micro-blogging thing. I currently have a blog on Ghost, but I don’t post much there. I feel like I need to write some longer content rather than just posting some thoughts on topics throughout the day.
Micro-blogging may be an in-between alternative to blogging and social media.
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Take care of your eyes with the 20-20-20 Rule
As we all know, staring at a screen causes eye strain. When you do this too long and too often, your eyes may not be able to recover. This eye strain is often called computer vision syndrome (CVS) and can cause headaches, fatigue, dry eyes, and long-term damage. What is the 20-20-20 Rule?Every 20 minutes you spend using a screen, look away at something 20 feet away for 20 seconds. 20 feet for 20 seconds is the optimal distance and time to allow your eyes to relax. -
The true purpose of a Zettelkasten
A Zettelkasten is a German word that translates to “slip box.” The term became used to describe a particular workflow that Niklas Luhmann used to publish about 50 books and 550 articles over his career. Many great articles are out there describing Niklas Luhmann’s Zettelkasten system. As well as a few books, so I won’t go into those details here. Instead, I want to focus on the key concepts I realized about a Zettelkasten over time.