It Ain't Boring | Exploring The Power Platform

Itaintboring, get a life already!

I started to write technology posts long ago – it would be over 13 years by now. And it was going great until a certain point, where, it...

5 days ago

Building your personal AI assistant from scratch with python, OpenAI API, Gradio, and ChromaDB

I’m definitely new to a lot of things on the AI side. Luckily, that’s understandable given that AI itself is relatively new. Howev...

13 days ago

You can bypass custom plugin logic, but you need permissions to do so

As you are probably aware, you can bypass custom plugin execution logic in your code by adding this kind of code: request.Parameters.Add(̶...

1 month ago

Registering a plugin step on any entity and can’t filter by attribute? Pick some entity first

Every now and then, you may need a plugin to run for any entity, but, when registering a plugin step using the plugin registration tool, you m...

1 month ago

“Update a row” vs “Upsert a Row” in the Power Automate Dataverse connector

I’ve long being using Update action of the Dataverse connector to do “upserts”, and it just turned out there are, now (have ...

1 month ago

Engineering vs prompt engineering

I think whoever came up with the term “prompt engineering” may have misunderstood what “engineering” is 😊 Alternative...

2 months ago

Are we being driven towards extinction through the use of AI?

I know the title of this post may sound like what a conspiracy theorist would have said.  However, even if we are being driven to extinct...

2 months ago

Power Pages: a known table permissions issue which I did not know were known

It always catches me by surprise when I spend a few hours trying to figure something out, and then it turns out to be a known issue. Except th...

3 months ago

I got a lot of things wrong about AI along the way. It’s time to start putting things straight

A few years ago (was it really “a few” or just 1 or 2? It does not count as “a few”, right?), when I first saw how AI ...

4 months ago

Trying to access an app and getting this error message? If it does not say so, do check your license

I was trying to test some security settings the other day and ran into the message below while trying to open a model-driven app using the usu...

4 months ago