Findings and thingies

Having done some work around PowerApps recently I found the following two links very useful.

  PowerApps Canvas App Coding Standards and Guidelines

  PowerApps and Microsoft Flow Governance and Deployment Whitepaper is now available

Moreover I watched a webcast which showcases the internal use of PowerApps at Microsoft.

  Walk through creating the internal Microsoft PowerApps Tool “Thrive” application with Pat Dunn

Azure Cloud Shell Tips for SysAdmins Part III - Using Azure CLI - Using Azure CLI is a great way to manage your resources in Azure.

Am I an expert developer or just an expert googler? - This a good point. You needn't feel guilty when googling something but it is more important to fully understand the solution you have found.

Azure Application Architecture Guide - If you are thinking about redesigning, moving existing applications or creating a new application in Azure this is a good point to start with.

One simple action you can take to prevent 99.9 percent of attacks on your accounts - I couldn't agree more. Start using MFA wherever it is possible.

Composing better emails - I couldn't agree more to the improvement suggestions for composing better emails.

Leveraging the Dependency Injection support in Azure Functions - Great introduction to using Dependency Injection in Azure Function and why you should do this

microsoft/PowerToys: Windows system utilities to maximize productivity - The good old PowerToys are coming back to Windows. Especially FancyZones is really looking very promising.

Having done this in the past time for some time I would like to get traction in this again. So I will try to post a weekly collection of links which are interesting from my point of view. Sometimes including a personal comment. Most of the content will be tech related.

So this is the first edition of this for calendar week 35. The upcoming weeks this post will be always published Friday morning. Due to the fact that I only started to gather content for this post in the middle of the week there are only to recommendations for this week.

The state of software engineering - Especially interesting because of the comparison to other professions which do exist quite longer than software engineering.

Understanding Azure Durable Functions - Part 1: Overview - Very good introduction to Durable Azure Functions. Til today the tenth part of this series has been published by Jason Roberts.

After starting to publish content on this domain I used a custom static site generator which I built using .NET core. Then after some time I switched to a custom static generator which I have built using python.

Then after some time I came to the conclusion that building and maintaining my own site generator doesn't provide any real benefit to me. Therefore I decided to switch to Hugo. After preparing my theme and migrating the content this page is now running based on the output of Hugo.

The content is now stored in a Github repository which triggers a webhook after commits. This receiving part for this webhook is running on my server. After receiving a webhook trigger from Github the script runs a git pull for the repository and starts processing with Hugo. After some seconds the new content is then visible on this page.

Stephane Eyskens has published his third architect map.

You can find his new map here: The Azure Infrastructure Architect Map

Because I simply always keep forgetting how to un-/set proxy settings for Git this is my reminder for the future.

Set proxy

git config --global http.proxy http://<username>:<password>@<proxy-server-url>:<port>
git config --global https.proxy http://<username>:<password>@<proxy-server-url>:<port>

Unset proxy

git config --global --unset-all http.proxy # to remove it from the global config
git config --unset-all http.proxy  # to remove it from the local repo config file

Recently I posted about a great map which helps choosing the right component from Azure when designing a solution. Stephane Eyskens has published another great map. You can find his post here: Azure Security Map.

I'm really looking forward to his other maps Azure Infrastructure Architect Map and Azure Application Architect Map which he mentioned he will be creating.

Being an active reader of the The Morning Brew today I found something interesting. Stephane Eyskens created an Azure Architect Map which helps you choosing the right Azure service when designing a solution. You can find his post here: The Azure Architect Map - Microsoft Tech Community. Stephane created a mind map which helps you differentiate the Azure services. From my point of view very useful.

Ever wondered which capability is included in which Microsoft 365 plan? To get a good overview you should start with this post of Aaron Dinnage.

Unpacking Microsoft 365

If you would like to have all this information in a more graphical manner you should have a look at his GitHub repo which contains all this information as info graphics.

GitHub - AaronDinnage/Licensing: Microsoft 365 licensing diagrams