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Zoom Backgrounds: Star Wars
I've only begun using Zoom.us since COVID-19 came raining down on us. Now that I'm in here, it's a really nice collaboration app, better than some others I won't name here. There's a nice little feature of using a video for your background. I, of course, geeked out, and made some Star Wars videos to... Continue Reading →
Understanding Power Automate’s Outlook Send Email Actions
I've had a few questions and other posts about sending emails. There are a few ways to skin the cat and Microsoft has made a few changes in their Office 365 Outlook Send Email actions, they removed some older ones as well. Let's take a look at what we have now. We're down to three:... Continue Reading →
Saving data from Microsoft Forms into Excel using Power Automate (Flow)
In another post I reviewed how we can integrate a Form with Excel, letting all of that beautiful data be saved directly into an Excel file. This solution works really well if you are creating a new form. What if we have an existing form and we want it to write to Excel? Unfortunately, there... Continue Reading →
Implementing a custom Okta authentication error page in ReactJS
Updated March 12, 2020 to include Okta React library 2.0 The @okta/okta-react library is fantastic. It makes working with Okta authentication really easy in ReactJS. It helps streamline managing the user's authentication including their tokens. We came across a use case where every once in a while, users would get generic error messages from Okta... Continue Reading →
Dear Me: Work Hard
This is part 2 of my Dear Me series, see the first here. While you're young, work hard, work a lot. Work/life balance is really important, but that balance can be what you decide it to be. Don't be afraid to work more than 40 hours. Work doesn't have to be "billable" work, or what... Continue Reading →
Stepping up your Git game
Git is a wonderful tool for managing your code. Many code repositories, like GitHub (obvi), BitBucket, Azure DevOps, and others, support git. We covered the basics of git in this post, review that before starting here. Fundamentally, knowing how to do the routine tasks of pull, push, commit, etc. is all you really need to... Continue Reading →
When Power Automate (Flow) can’t find your Microsoft Form
Sometimes it happens, Flow can't find a Form you created. I find this happens the most when you have just created a new form, however I've had other forms just not show up. I don't know why this happens. If you really want to resolve it, contact Microsoft support. I guess it's a caching/timing thing... Continue Reading →
Dear Me: To a younger, inexperienced me 20 years ago
I've been doing this thing for 20 years, what do I wish I knew back then? What might I want to do differently.
