Power Pages: a known table permissions issue which I did not know were known
It always catches me by surprise when I spend a few hours trying to figure something out, and then it turns out to be a known issue. Except that it’s not that well known, perhaps. How would you call...
View ArticleAre we being driven towards extinction through the use of AI?
I know the title of this post may sound like what a conspiracy theorist would have said. However, even if we are being driven to extinction through the use of AI, I don’t think it’s being done...
View ArticleEngineering vs prompt engineering
I think whoever came up with the term “prompt engineering” may have misunderstood what “engineering” is Alternatively, they might have honestly hoped the art of composing those AI prompts would turn...
View Article“Update a row” vs “Upsert a Row” in the Power Automate Dataverse connector
I’ve long being using Update action of the Dataverse connector to do “upserts”, and it just turned out there are, now (have been for a while?), two separate actions:Update a rowUpsert a rowBehind the...
View ArticleRegistering a plugin step on any entity and can’t filter by attribute? Pick...
Every now and then, you may need a plugin to run for any entity, but, when registering a plugin step using the plugin registration tool, you may notice that you are unable to filter such steps by...
View ArticleYou can bypass custom plugin logic, but you need permissions to do so
As you are probably aware, you can bypass custom plugin execution logic in your code by adding this kind of code: request.Parameters.Add(“BypassBusinessLogicExecution”, “CustomSync,CustomAsync”); This...
View ArticleBuilding your personal AI assistant from scratch with python, OpenAI API,...
I’m definitely new to a lot of things on the AI side. Luckily, that’s understandable given that AI itself is relatively new. However, I tend to learn things through personal experiences, which means I...
View ArticleItaintboring, get a life already!
I started to write technology posts long ago – it would be over 13 years by now. And it was going great until a certain point, where, it seems, the focus had shifted, and it has kept shifting ever...
View ArticlePower Pages conditions handling
I’ve been doing some things wrong with Liquid, I just did not know it, as usual… Take a look at the screenshot below, make not of those bold red “FALSE”-s, and notice how there are always… ALWAYS…...
View ArticleAI will take jobs? Sure it will, I can personally attest to it now
With everyone writing about AI and arguing about whether it will take over our jobs or not, I can personally attest that it definitely will take over some of those, or, at least, some of the...
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