Advent of Code 2022
I’m participating in the Advent of Code again this year. We’ll see if I get further than I did last year, which was about halfway before I quit. You can...
- December 7, 2022
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Festive Tech Calendar 2022
By the way, I contributed to this year’s Festive Tech Calendar with a video on how to use low-code automation solutions like Power Automate and IFTTT to automate your holiday...
- December 6, 2022
Using DALL-E and Power Automate To Create and Share Images
One big current trend, for good or ill, is AI-generated images. There are a number of services out there to generate these images and most of them have an API...
- December 2, 2022
A Day In The Life
Taking some inspiration from my favorite ‘cast this week, Guidance Counselor 2.0, by Taylor Desseyn. I wanted to ‘get real’ a little bit about what it’s really like to be...
- November 30, 2022
An Overview of SQL Data Types
I have been asked to do more posts on databases, so I’m returning to the world of relational databases this week. I posted an introduction to databases a few months...
- November 22, 2022
Imposter Syndrome Never Ends – And That’s Fine
There’s a ton of feeling in the developer community among new, so-called “junior” developers. It’s something that has come up in many of the mentoring sessions I have held with...
- November 15, 2022
Function Friday – Chunk, Sort & Reverse
Power Automate has added a number of new expression functions and features recently. This time around I’ll take a look at three of those new functions: chunk, sort and reverse....
- November 11, 2022
Video: AI Builder – Creating a Custom Image Recognition Model
This time I take you on a tour of using AI Builder in Power Automate to create a custom image recognition model to identify gaming dice. BarretHusband, father, gamer, developer,...
- November 8, 2022
Video: An Intro to AI Builder on Power Automate
A new video this week. Bringing a quick introduction to the AI Builder feature on Power Automate. BarretHusband, father, gamer, developer, manager, writer, creative, blogger, model railroader, Buckeyes fan
- November 1, 2022
Function Friday – Xpath
Power Automate doesn’t give you any built-in methods for editing XML content, and that’s fine. XML is a devil-spawned file format that should die thousands of deaths and never see...
- October 28, 2022
Error Handling with Power Automate
One of the things in Power Automate that doesn’t seem to get a lot of attention is the available features for error handling. So today we’re going to delve into...
- October 26, 2022
Function Friday – Coalesce
I had intended to cover the XML XPath function this week. But due to some time constraints I needed to make this a quick hit this week, so I’m going...
- October 21, 2022
Function Friday – JSON Manipulation
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...
- October 14, 2022
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...
- September 16, 2022
