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 since. Everything seems to be changing so fast around us that getting stuck on the technology… Read More »
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 can read about something, but it does not necessarily stick. It works much better when I spend some time trying things… Read More »
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 is as per the link below: Bypass custom Dataverse logic – Power Apps | Microsoft Learn What I did not realize, though, is that the user account running this code needs… Read More »
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 attribute since that option is simply disabled: Which makes sense, since, for the most part, columns are table-specific,… Read More »
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 row Behind the scenes “Upsert a row” is the old good “UpdateRecord” action. And “Update a row” is a new “UpdateOnlyRecord” action.… Read More »
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 into the actual engineering; but, I think, so far it has not happened, and it’s probably unlikely to happen. Just look at how… Read More »
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 intentionally. That makes it anything but conspiracy. The world around us is largely ignorant of our desire for… Read More »
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 it, by the way? According to the Copilot, it’s called a “paradox”: Either way, in case… Read More »
A few years ago (was it really “a few” or just 1 or 2? It does not count as “a few”, right?), when I first saw how AI tools were able to generate code, to produce very reasonable answers, and to manifest other signs of “intelligence”, my first reaction was “oh, crap, the end is… Read More »
I was trying to test some security settings the other day and ran into the message below while trying to open a model-driven app using the usual …/main.aspx?appid=… url: This is not an error message I would have seen before, so I had to retry different security roles etc, all to no avail. It was… Read More »