Apologies for the delay. It’s been a rough few weeks lately. A lot of the work we do as developers is to pass data back and forth. Typically these days that data is passed in JSON format (though the usage of XML is still fairly widespread). Sometimes we need to […]
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Function Friday – URI Parsing Functions
Sometimes you need to work with URI (uniform resource identifiers) in Power Automate. URIs point at something, like websites, files, and so forth. You should be familiar with their most common format, the URL (uniform resource locator): The first portion (“https”) identifies the protocol or scheme. The second portion (“barretblake.dev”) […]
Azure Back to School 2022 – Moving Massive Mountains of Magnificent Data
Here’s my second session for Azure Back to School 2022.
Azure Back to School 2022 – Moving Massive Mountains of Magnificent Data
For my second contribution to this year’s Azure Back to School, I’m presenting a video recording of my introductory session to Microsoft’s Azure Data Factory. It’s a fantastic tool for moving and manipulating huge blocks of data.
The Employee Right to Privacy
I’ve seen a lot of posts on social media in recent months where people are complaining about their companies spying on them and what they’re doing on their employer-issued equipment and accounts. I want to put this in as plain a statement as possible. ANYTHING you do on employer-issued equipment […]
Function Friday – Date and Time Wrap Up: Timezones and Ticks
This time I’m walking through the remaining Date and Time functions. These include the functions that convert between and work with timezones: convertFromUtc, convertToUtc, convertTimeZone, utcNow. But first, we’re going to take a look at ticks. Just what the heck are ticks, anyway? Ticks are an integer value that represents […]
Video: Power Automate – Starting with a Template
A new video this week. I delve into how quickly you can create a Power Automate flow using one of the thousands of provided templates.
Azure Back to School 2022 – Saving Customer Relationships with Azure Cognitive Services
For those of you who missed it yesterday, you can catch one of my two Azure Back to School sessions below.
Function Friday – More Date and Time Fun: startOf and dayOf
Previously I’ve walked through how to do some date math, formatting, and parsing. Now I’ll drill into a few of the other date and time functions around getting certain values related to a particular date and time. There are three functions that are closely related: dayOfMonth, dayOfWeek, dayOfYear. All three […]
An Introduction To Databases
Something a little different this time around. Lately, both at work and in my personal projects and learnings, I’ve been dealing with a wide variety of databases. Databases in general are a core component in application infrastructure. Despite that, they get far less focus in the blogosphere than other topics […]