Hey y’all, I’m back from Color Cloud in Hamburg and – as usual – buzzing with that post-conference energy. Slightly different then the last two editions, because it was my first solo session on stage. No safety net, no co-speaker, just me, my slides and a demo. Spoiler: I survived 😅 Here’s the recap, the context, … Read more
Hey y’all, Recently I needed to generate JWTs inside AL and couldn’t find a ready-to-use snippet. So I put one together, published it as a GitHub Gist, and figured: maybe it’ll save someone else a bit of time in the future. What’s in the Gist The Gist contains a small AL codeunit to generate JSON … Read more
Hello y’all, I’m back from BC TechDays in Antwerp and still running on conference adrenaline.Here’s a quick recap, a few lessons learned and some repo news. Goosebumps in the big hall Standing on that stage with Tobias felt surreal at first. Ten years ago I sat all the way in the back, wide-eyed, taking notes; … Read more
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
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
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
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
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
Again, my last post was some months ago – and I’d really like to have it differently. But again these last months were just a lot on the to-do list and I’m getting my backlog a bit shorter every day. So I’m looking forward getting some life on this blog again soon 😊 You might … Read more
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