New blog, from WordPress to Hugo + Azure Static Web App
Warning This article have been translated automatically with Copilot and is still pending manual revision. If you find an error please review the original post in spanish switching language in the top-right selector. After long period of inactivity (motivated as well by the time I needed to keep WordPress alive, that I could have invested on publishing something) I finally decided to move away from WordPress as the content manager, that I’ve been using for the last 10 years on this site. There are many reasons for that move, WP is certainly easy to use and that’s its best benefit, but it’s also complicated to host and maintain, there is a lot of malware targeting it (due to its massive presence on the web) and it’s heavily dependent on third party plugins.
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5 years at Microsoft
That’s 5 more than I expected when I was hired, and still counting. Not bad :) Published first on LinkedIn, leave me a comment with your thoughts!
Customer Engineers – how we make others cool
Note 2024: Customer Engineer role has evolved in name from PFE to CE and now CSA (Cloud Solution Architect), but the same nature persists. «What exactly is it that you do at work?» is a question everybody in IT has answered many times. I got it asked periodically by my parents and other family members. More than a year ago I wrote another article explaining how I landed here and how you can do it as well.
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Are you a career planner or a career explorer?
First time I heard the question “where do you see yourself in 5 years” just after joining Microsoft, the first answer that came to my mind was «fired». Then I understood my manager was suggesting me to have a long/mid-term career plan looking forward. «Fair enough, that sounds reasonable». And assumed I was not about to be fired, which was a nice perspective. «Awesome, let’s write a plan…» … but it was not that easy. As of today, years later, my plan is yet to be completed. I started and modified and quitted that plan countless times.
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I won a Microsoft Gold Club Award!
Best way to wrap a challenging fiscal year. This is a prestigious internal individual award that could have never happen without being surrounded by an amazing team: colleagues, mentors and leadership. Quoting the award letter: You have been selected as the FY20 Microsoft Gold Club Award winner for Business Applications Domain! The distinguished Gold Club Awards recognize the extraordinary performance of individuals who transform and contribute to the overall growth and success of Microsoft. You have demonstrated significant impact to business results with a growth mindset, winning transformational deals as One Microsoft, Customer & Partner obsession and exemplifying the Microsoft culture.Congratulations on this outstanding achievement!
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Learning on bad times. On impact, career development... and crisis
Something I discovered when I joined Microsoft (I had never thought that way on my previous employers) is measuring your results based on the “Impact” you create. Measuring personal success and career development based on your impact is of course an interesting way to go, but impact itself is sort of a philosophical, metaphysical, term that turns out difficult to translate into actionable items and measurable results for those with a practical problem-solving mindset like myself. Therefore, career and personal development requires intentional thinking around this topic if you really want to succeed.
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Empower every person… including yourself! – My (short) story in Microsoft
I’ll spend next week in the Microsoft offices in Lyngby (Denmark) where, as you might know, an important part of the Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations engineering team works. First time I came to this office was many years ago to attend a job interview that I failed miserably in that engineering team. Here’s the story: One good day, somehow, I found myself connected to a remote interview with one of my long-time work-related idols: the engineer who, by the time I started learning to develop in Dynamics AX, was maintaining the only X++ focused blog on Internet. I failed this first interview, but he told me something along the lines of (I don’t remember the exact words): “it did not go very well but I will give you a GO today, so you can come here to a full interview cycle in a couple of weeks. Use this time wisely, prepare it better or you won’t do it.”. I prepared the best I could, came there, attend and failed 4 interviews in a row. When the hiring manager told me I was not going to get an offer, it was not of any surprise. I came back home frustrated and mad at me for the lost opportunity.
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Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT)
I finally got my Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) status. I am delivering a lot of workshops for customers these days and I thought it was about the time. Not like the MVP kit but you know, it’s never too much swag :) Published first on LinkedIn, let me a comment there to see your thoughts!
Acceptance Test Libraries (#ATL) for Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations
Warning This article have been translated automatically with Copilot and is still pending manual revision. If you find an error please review the original post in spanish switching language in the top-right selector. One of the most exciting announcements in recent months (and that’s saying something, with how fast we move after OneVersion) for Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations developers is the ATL. This is the library that the product team uses to develop their own (unit or, better, integration) functional tests.
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Release your Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operation packages to LCS with Azure DevOps Pipelines
The first automation task to close the continuous integration cycle in Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations with Azure DevOps pipelines was released recently as described on the official announcement. These are some high-level instructions to set it up while the official documentation is released: Prerequisites To keep things simple, these prerequisites should be prepared before starting this process: You need a running Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations build, and thus an LCS project linked to this DevOps instance. This article assumes a build is setup by deploying a Build Topology virtual machine from LCS as explained here. Install the extension Dynamics 365 Unified Operations Tools from the Visual Studio Marketplace on this link: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Dyn365FinOps.dynamics365-finops-tools Also prepare:
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