Work Notes

Quick notes jotted down while listening to this podcast originally published 26/09/2018. Podcast guest Merwan Hade, at that time Senior Program Manager for MS Flow (now Director of Product Management at Salesforce). Q: Flows inside Dynamics 365 solutions - why? Solution as a way of packaging dependencies and moving between environments. Parameterised solutions - e.g. have a generic flow that can be parameterised in different environments Q: How will connectors be handled when deploying solutions across environments?

If you work in any way with systems or data, you will know the situation, where some records have ended up with missing or wrong values. This is particularly irritating when to fix the problem means pulling data from more than one place in order to set things right. As we have fully adopted Office 365 at work, Microsoft Flow is rapidly becoming my favourite tool for basic low-volume data manipulation.

Smallest Federated Wiki is the brainchild of Ward Cunningham - the “Father of Wiki” Although the main feature is the ability to fork content from other wikis, and to allow other wiki users to fork your content, many people also want to run a local copy as a private notebook or commonplace book. The most stable distribution of wiki is written in node, so will run anywhere that node will. It’s really useful to have wiki run continuously, so in this approach we use node-windows to install wiki as a windows service.

Drafts is a genuinely useful text creation tool for iOS devices. With the Pro version you can extend the tool with custom actions, either from the community, or written yourself (Javascript). Collecting / writing / adapting useful scripts for working with this blog from my phone here. To complete the setup, I recommend the Working Copy git client.

Using Flow to process emails is fairly standard stuff - this example extends the idea by using LUIS to parse content and select emails for processing.

Across three experiments, Mueller and Oppenheimer had students take notes in a classroom setting and then tested students on their memory for factual detail, their conceptual understanding of the material, and their ability to synthesize and generalize the information. Half of the students were instructed to take notes with a laptop, and the other half were instructed to write the notes out by hand. As in other studies, students who used laptops took more notes.

Configuring a Hugo project so it can deploy to both Netlify and GitHub Pages

Sometimes malware will corrupt the database, inserting malicious script tags. Here’s the quick removal approach if you have access to your database directly: <br /> UPDATE wp_posts SET post_content = REPLACE ( post_content, ‘BAD SCRIPT TAG’, ’’ );<br />

Find all files for given user and change ownership sudo find . -user OLDUSER -exec chown NEWUSER:NEWGROUP “{}” ; Find all files with given permissions find -perm mode

fortnightly business review reviewing linked sources to Stop blaming the tools when Collaboration fails working with a team member on date culture issues in Azure Webjobs working with HR on recruitment for a senior role in my team improve our integration code that posts web form data to service bus for downstream integrations blog post “The machines may eat your job, but that might not be a bad thing – are any politicians acknowledging this?