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. BarretHusband, father, gamer, developer, manager, writer, creative, blogger, model railroader, Buckeyes fan
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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. BarretHusband, father, gamer, developer, manager, writer, creative, blogger, model railroader, Buckeyes fan
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. BarretHusband, father, gamer, developer, manager, writer, creative, blogger, model railroader, Buckeyes fan
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 […]
Video: Creating Our First Power Automate Flow
Another introduction video. This one covers an overview of creating a simple flow in Power Automate. BarretHusband, father, gamer, developer, manager, writer, creative, blogger, model railroader, Buckeyes fan
Function Friday – Formatting and Parsing Dates and Times
This week I’m looking at formatting and parsing date and time values in Power Automate. This can be a great pain when working with data in your functions for a straightforward reason: DateTime values come in many different formats. And different systems will require different formats for your DateTime values. […]
Is a College Degree Necessary To Find A Tech Job?
It used to be that having a college degree was a necessary thing to getting a job in software development. This was especially true at the “entry” level of the spectrum. Oftentimes it didn’t really matter much what that degree was in. It was just “required” that you have one. […]