My thoughts on Dynamics 365, .NET, Azure, PowerShell, and other things too
If you use SSH to work on a remote Linux server, tmux is one of the first tools worth learning.
The problem it solves is simple: if your SSH connection drops, anything running in that terminal usually stops with it. That is a bad fit for long-running work like Codex, editors, logs, build processes, servers, or monitoring tools.
tmux gives you a persistent terminal session on the remote machine. You can disconnect from SSH, come back later, and continue exactly where you left off.
This is a fun little post where I’m posting pictures every time I come across Copilot in one form or another. I’m updating this over time as I come across more of them.
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Have you ever wondered what would happen if everyone could read each other’s minds? How would society function if every thought and emotion was exposed to the world? In this blog post, I explore the hypothetical chaos of mind reading and compare it to the reality of social media. I argue that both phenomena have … Read more
The web interface for reviewing pull requests in Azure DevOps has two user interfaces for comparing files. If you’re not aware or careful while reviewing the files you could be unintentionally allowing undesirable changes to get introduced.
Sending and receiving emails from Dynamics 365 has always been something I’ve found to be a challenge to setup. I recently wanted to have emails sent to an email address get saved to Dynamics 365 as email activities, and for replies to those emails to be sent from within Dynamics 365. A typical scenario for this is a help desk or call center that uses a single email address for sending and receiving all emails. I was able to accomplish this using a Dynamics 365 queue, and to help demystify and remember how to perform this task I’ve documented the steps to follow.
As 2020 comes to an end, so does xRM Portals Community Edition. On December 19th, 2020, I marked the GitHub project as archived, so that everything would become read-only, including the code, wiki, and issue management features.
I was a little hesitant to take this step because of my personal connection to the code, my career, and all the unsung developers that worked tirelessly to build it from its inception at Adxstudio all the way until its acquisition and one-time release by Microsoft. Nostalgia aside, I feel it was the right time, given the ever-increasing inactivity on the project and my judgement of it having accomplished the project’s goal of providing a migration path to Microsoft’s online portals service.
What follows is my retrospective of the project.