It will not come as a shock if I say that CRM stands for the customer relationship management. However, I have been wondering lately what it really means to have a tool that can facilitate customer relationships management. First, let me clarify why the question came up at all. I am a Dynamics CRM consultant,… Read More »
If you have a plugin that runs on “delete”, and if you need to detect whether that’s part of a “cascade delete” (in which case you might not want to update some sort of summary information on the parent entity), here is how it can be done: if (context.ParentContext == null || context.ParentContext.MessageName == “Delete”… Read More »
I have seen a few examples of how to handle associate/disassociate messages in the plugins, and I have done it myself multiple times; however, some of those examples don’t work as is, and, more often than not, I have to spend more time than I’d like to on this kind of plugins. The code below is fresh… Read More »
I have been living in Ottawa for almost a year, and one difference I have noticed here is the UNION. Not a SQL union, not that one.. a labour union. Honestly, this is the first time in my not so short IT career where I see a labour union in action, and it is actually… Read More »
I noticed a strange thing about those stairs in my house. It’s a split house, so, every night, I would turn off the lights in the living room and go upstairs.. And what I hate about it is that almost every single time I would keep going up when there are no stairs anymore. Did… Read More »
Salesforce outage that happened this month has rightfully provoked all sorts of discussions about the dangers of cloud offerings. Most of those discussions are only theoretically interesting, since they are, for the most part, speculations on various aspects of what needs to be done to avoid this kind of situations, what the customers can do,… Read More »
Lately, I have been observing how a commonly accepted approach to the business analysis collided with a little bit unorthodox business analysis methodology, so that made me thinking of what really makes a best practice.. Many of us start in the information technology industry through some sort of “science” education. For me, it was applied… Read More »
There is an interesting document that talks about some of the best practices for Dynamics CRM: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=48268 What’s really interesting is that it does not tell you what and how to do, but, rather, it explains what was the thinking behind Dynamics CRM design and what the expectations are. Once you know that, there is,… Read More »
Here is how: -Create the text file gitignore.txt -Open it in a text editor and add your rules, then save and close -Then rename the file in the command line, with ren gitignore.txt .gitignore Here is the source of this little piece of wisdom: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10744305/how-to-create-gitignore-file
Was looking at the “strategy” and “iterator” patterns today. They are both operational/behavioral patterns, which makes them different from the creational patterns like the Factory Method, for instance. What’s interesting is that they might not be that different when it comes to the implementation. It’s the usage which makes them different. Strategy pattern is about… Read More »