Good-bye Boilerplate, Hello Kiota-for-AL – Prototype, Repos & How you can help

TL;DRWe now have a working Kiota language generator for AL, a “companion app”, and a first sample project. Everything is OSS – and I need your feedback to make the current prototype production-ready. From conference stage to GitHub At ColorCloud Hamburg Tobias and I showed how Kiota – Microsoft’s cross-language OpenAPI client generator – can … Read more

Long Time, No Posts – and Why That’s About to Change

Hello y’all, yes, it’s me.No, your feed reader isn’t broken.I really am posting something after – checks watch – almost three years.(If you’re new here: welcome! If you stuck around since 2022: you deserve cookies.) Where the heck have I been? Short version: life happened.Long(er) version: right after switching jobs, the universe tossed a few … Read more

Turning over a new leaf

I know, I know. It’s been way too long that I did the last update on my blog. And I’ll really try to get nice new tech-content on here. But today is no such day. Over the last years I worked with COSMO CONSULT and I learned a lot during that time. I’ve met great … Read more

Little license helper / Update to D365BCAppHelper

I know, I know what you’re gonna say: license files are a thing of the past 😅 But even though I prefer the SaaS-model a lot over the on-prem model, we can’t forget that there are still tons of customers on-prem. And just recently I had a tedious task I didn’t want to manually do … Read more

Happy New Year, 2022!

Happy New Year!

I wish you all a very happy New Year! For 2022 and wish that we all find a path back to a normal that is less annoying (I’m skipping the C-word here 😉) and that we can meet in person again more often. Thank you all, for a great community and for a still great … Read more

Let’s show some more open source adoption / enhancing Azure Blob Services API

During Directions EMEA some weeks ago I not only had the chance to meet great people and have great talks with them, but also to get on stage. Together with Jesper and Maria from Microsoft we talked about open source contributions and bringing Business Central to the next level. Open Source mindset and contributions I’m … Read more

Directions EMEA 2021, Milan – some impressions and short retrospect

Directions EMEA 2021 Entrance

Yesterday I got back from Milan after some great days, packed with awesome sessions and meeting even more awesome people. As it was the first time for me attending Directions EMEA (or any Directions for that matter) I want to sum up my impressions of this. I have to be honest: it was a bit … Read more

Get platform version of Runtime Packages / Update to D365BCAppHelper (and little sign of life)

My last post was already quite a while ago. That’s mostly because the work-load right now is kind of bananas. Never thought that there be so much projects in the midst of a pandemic 😅 But at least some small update is there in the meantime, that I can share. Thanks to Kenneth Fuglsangs tweet … Read more