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[0:00] Basically, shout it out to me on Saturday. I always get a little self-conscious of these things sometimes.

[0:08] Because I kind of like, maybe you call it imposter syndrome or something else. But I'm sort of like, I don't know. It's this sort of. It's hard to have to call you Mr. Big Shit. And then we close it off with this. I think people can kind of put two and two together. Nick doesn't like when people put him on pedestals. But he absolutely loves and appreciates it. So, there you go. There you go.

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[0:51] So welcome everyone to the power platform boost podcast your weekly source of news and updates from the world of the Power Platform and the Microsoft community with your host, Nick Doelman and Ulrikke Akerbæk. Hey, buddy. Hey, how's it going? It's going good. How are you? Good. Back home again for a while. Good thing you don't get jet lagged like the rest of us.

[1:20] Yeah, coming this direction is usually not too, too bad, although I did sleep a good solid like 10 hours, I think. Uh coming home and everything but it was good just spent um yeah it's been a it was a bit of a whirlwind um went up to to norway went to the you know met with the team of what we're working on went to collab days oslo which was really really cool saw a bunch of the folks there that we that we know from the community giving some presentations it was it was a nice little event and of course you and i hung out on the sunday um kind of tromping through the the woods with your kids and everything was a lot of fun uh uh that was that was really cool it was like you like norwegians right never don't stay indoors ever you have to go outside you have to do something yeah um like we talked about no bad weather just bad clothes or something don't that well but yeah something along those lines exactly yeah that was fun yeah and then um yeah the one off to paris for the power platform french summit which was really cool um met a lot of people in the community that I had known through like LinkedIn or other things but had not necessarily met in person so that was really really cool, a few others like, Do I speak French? Did you speak French? Je parle un petit peu.

[2:42] Bonjour. It was better than, because I saw Ryan Cunningham was doing the keynote. So I went up to Ryan beforehand and I said, hey, Ryan, I hear you're doing this all in French. And he kind of looked at me kind of like, no. And then he went up. But when he did his presentation, he's like, bonjour, croissant. And then dove into the rest of the keynote about all the cool Power Platform stuff. Sounds good. Sounds good. sounds like my level i can order wine um and i can get the date time of day wrong and then that's about it so but it was really good it was it was a pretty well attended event there seems to be a lot of people there again it was like it's part of the community that i've never really been exposed to i think just because a bit of a language difference there but they had quite a few like a few english speakers there speaking on i spoke about power pages i had two sessions there um joe.

[3:35] Yeah, a couple of Claire was there. Sorry, Claire, I just forgot your last name. Is this going to be a common thing now? Because we seem to do this every episode now. We forget names and we mispronounce names.

[3:51] Yeah, let's just lead with that. We can shout out, but we will just shout out in all the wrong ways. But you take it with love and then so probably okay.

[4:01] Yeah, but yeah, it was good. And then from there, I went off to the Power Summit in Prague. Power Summit? What do they call it? Power Conference. Power Conference in Prague. And that was really well. There was probably, I think, between 300 and 400 people there. A lot of interest. So me and Angeliki Pasiavo did a workshop for model-driven apps on Thursday. It went really well. we had almost 28 or 29 participants in the room learning all about model-driven apps. It was really interesting. It was an eye-opener for me in a sense of a lot of folks working in the Power Platform. They've built Power Apps and Canvas apps. They might've written Power BI reports, maybe even done Power Automate. Model-driven apps to them seem kind of like a new, even a completely foreign concept. And that's why they came into this. I know, right? They came into this workshop to learn about this and they really saw the power of model-driven apps. Model-driven apps aren't the most prettiest things in the world, but if you're dealing with large corporate enterprise data and dataverse, like we're talking thousands of records, trying to do some mass transactions,

[5:16] or try to do a lot of even management of things, model-driven apps is really the way to go. And it's true that it is the low-code, no-code, but a lot of power approach.

[5:29] To this and it's interesting let's actually you know reverse a week before so as we talked about our last episode i came i was just got back from ignite that week we had the canadian the dynamics user group put on the canadian um a canadian meetup which was the first in-person meetup for the dynamics user group in canada um which also was pretty interesting in terms of the the things like that and there's actually a shout out to my wife who's really behind the scenes in the community like she she participates by reading and absorbing a lot of the community stuff she builds a lot of cool apps and things like that she um keeps me humble and kind of you know making fun of my pseudo celebrity status as i say but uh she did a session yes calls me the big shit so yeah so Brigitte her name's Brigitte she did a she did a session on model driven apps uh at the canadian user group and it was it was really cool i actually learned a few things and i was able to take some of those things and apply that to the workshop that we delivered in prod so yeah so pretty cool and then.

[6:36] After the day after uh there was the the event itself um again um and angeliki and i did a really interesting session on kind of power pages and model driven apps and sort of started it out like in a wrestling theme they're going to be against each other but really showed how these things work together um and really complement each other and that kind of thing so that was a very fun session to do as well it was the first um session that her and i did together of course anybody who knows angelique knows she does a lot in the community calls um and does a lot of uh other she has her blog and things like that as well so it was just it's good i like collaborating with different people of the community because i can learn from others Of course, I love presenting with you, although we haven't done it in a while. So I think we've got to fix that next year. We've got to make sure that happens.

[7:28] And there's a few others I've talked to as well that said, hey, let's do a session together and just we'll see what happens. I just maybe a little bit of a, I won't say even a spoiler because we don't know, but me and Matt Necker and George Dubinski put in a session for a couple upcoming events as well, which I think has a really interesting angle to it. So hoping that gets selected. So, again, if you're out there in the community, if you're, I would say, if you're new to the community and you're not sure about speaking, definitely reach out to someone that's a little bit more established. They're probably more than happy to team up. I think both you and I had mentored some folks for Color Cloud as well, you know, in terms of their session submission. So in terms of there's help out there if you want to become a speaker at these events and get to the point where you could travel the world and meet exciting new people and talk about all this cool stuff that we do.

[8:20] Yeah, absolutely. Shout out to Elvira. It's my mentee for ColorCloud. She submitted a session, so now we'll just have to wait and see. And also, I have a collaboration in the works as well with someone doing BC. So we'll see. It's going to be a fun spring for sure. And of course, we're already planning for everything 2025.

[8:43] So that's going to be pretty awesome. And what you say about BC too, in terms of collaboration, the same on my end, I'm actually collaborating with Andrea, who I met last year at DynamicsCon, and she's a fellow powerlifter and holds deadlift powerlifting records in her state. So we're teaming well we put in a session together so teaming up because i said it's good to have someone who knows bc i know power platform power.

[9:11] Pages let's collaborate together and that way you can learn from other people in the community um but also i think we'll try to if if the session gets submitted kind of also put a bit of a power lifting theme to it as well so yeah go figure uh and.

[9:27] Also i mean the conferences like color cloud and nordic summit and scottish summit have also had um mentoring programs where they kind of do this as in a more systemized way than kind of just a bit loosey-goosey like we've been doing it but and i think i'm very valuable and going on stage with someone more senior you learn tons and i learned something from you every time i see you percent although i've seen you percent a million times by now i always learn something so it's um it's really worth doing to get into the to get into speaking so speaking of speaking do you want to speak about the new things that we have going on for this episode yeah sure of course the the news never stops so the very first thing that came on my kind of radar was for our friend lisa crosby she put out a video on building your first autonomous agent with copilot studio now what caught my eye on this was after ignite and even on that like i think i mentioned the last episode on the plane ride back i tried to piece together my own agent because you know the whole week of ignite is like oh look how easy it is and beep beep beep you know these these pieces together and you create these agents that are going to go out do all your work and blah blah blah life is wonderful and then you actually sit down and try to do it and you're like.

[10:47] Makes no sense you know yeah so uh this is why i went through lisa's uh video and it was a great walkthrough because first things i learned three things um it's actually it's a little bit more tricky to get working it's a little bit difficult so you have to learn how these pieces work what exactly you need to do so in terms of job security again ai is not going to take your jobs it's just going to make it more um the other thing that really caught my way of thinking when she shouted this out too was i was building my agent in terms of i approached it like i was going to build a power automate flow i want this to happen i want this and then this then this you can't think you can't think that in those respects you got to actually put these pieces together and let the ai kind of with the agent know what to do with this information you're giving it um and seeing it through and then actually these can be very powerful but you still need those humans, the human in the loop to piece these together to make sure it's reading, using the right information security, of course, making sure that works. So it's about I think it's close to, it's under 30 minutes, but it's a great overview and.

[11:59] You know, Lisa I thanked you already privately through this, but again, just a big shout out to you and all the other videos that you do and I know that you're going to do a lot more co-pilot videos in the future. So if you're trying to learn the stuff like the rest of us, Lisa's YouTube channel is a great resource to get those foundations put in place without the Microsoft marketing cheerleading stuff. Lisa's a great cheerleader, don't get me wrong, but she approaches it with the right respect, right angle. Let's put a pin in that and revisit that with the story later.

[12:36] I think you know what I'm talking about. But yeah, I watched Lisa's video as well, and it gave me kind of a new confidence that I could also probably get this to work. And also something she said that I wanted to highlight is it's tempting to create an agent thinking that this is going to be my customer support agent is going to handle all the things that I need handled in my environment. But actually, it's better to have 30 different agents that are specifically designed to do one task. So what she created was a very simple policy return policy agent, and she turned off the generative model, meaning it would not be able to go off to the internet and hallucinate and find questions to recipes for chocolate cake. It would simply be able to answer based on a Word document that she uploaded and only that. So if you, and of course, by the trigger being an email with a certain subject title or something along the lines of returns that kind of limited that little agent to be just in that little bubble. And that is a new way of thinking for me as well because I haven't really – it made sense to kind of – because then you will also be very much in control of what that one agent does and you have a whole team of agents that does different things. You can kind of help keep that in check in a sense. So I really like that. And good video. I've always said you lead the way.

[14:03] For sure all right so let's move into some more power app stuff and it's interesting there was a link um it was it was posted by um sorry yes thank you very much yeah he posted a the link about uh but it was something that was actually posted a couple years ago by danny kahill um of course we all know what danny danny's stuff he did the we have that power pages diagram that i helped him with um but he has this um basically a javascript cheat sheet so if you're again let's go back to model driven apps model driven apps yes you have business rules your business process flows but a lot of times you want to actually you have to go in kind of you put on your pro dev hat and build some javascript around model driven apps and his cheat sheet really lays out a lot of the different functions, how to do things like show and hide sections, how to hide tabs, some dialogues, how to refresh and save the form. Like all these little things that we would probably Google or probably now ask ChatGPT for. But sometimes just having that cheat sheet pinned to your bulletin board right beside your desk if you're using a lot of these things is a really great resource. So I know it's like, you know, like I said, some of this content doesn't age well, but some of it does age or still is very relevant. And this is one of them. So we're going to put that link in the show notes so you can check it out for yourself.

[15:28] Yeah, definitely. And I love that we can kind of recycle and highlight this, because also this diagram by Danny, which is now posted by Keith, the resource for it is a blog post, the JavaScript code snippet cheat sheet by my old colleague, Fredrik Enset, that we talked about, what was it, last summer?

[15:51] So oh yeah kind of coming full circle i love that so kind of shout out to all three of them kind of bringing this off full circle and recycling that because like you said those snippets they don't change um and so yeah i just love that and especially if you're in a situation like i do find myself in where sometimes i might be a month or two away from working on a model driven app because i'm working on power pages stuff or building something else and then i have to circle back to it like oh yeah how did i do that again well these are the types of resources that really really help jog your memory and get you back i don't know if that applies to anyone with you because you're the only one that i know that kind of knows all of these products that well so um yeah yeah it might be just you well but something that i don't know a lot about uh things that nick here's the things nick doesn't know and one of the things that i I it's it's been on my list for literally it's been on my list for years is to actually build a PCF control or component and every time uh Diana uh oh get back has a workshop I'm always doing a workshop at the same time because I want to take her workshop on building PCF controls because I've not done it and I know that there's resources out there that I can read online and get wrapped up. I just got to sit my butt down and maybe that will be my Christmas thing. Sit down.

[17:16] It's a Christmas challenge, boost Christmas challenge. We make a PCF component and then we talk about it in January. How's that? And maybe try to get Steve off around a bounty. We're going to talk about Steve in a minute.

[17:32] Or maybe this is why.

[17:35] Maybe this is the cause of the controversy. Anyways. So yes oh you're gonna love that okay going to the yes the announcement was that react and fluent-based virtual code components are now generally available so it's been out for like what three years two years yeah yeah finally it's ga and everyone's been using it yeah yeah that's the funny part too because even microsoft themselves admitted well yeah we still support it we just finally oops let's let's stick on that ga tab did they forget to just let the switch because i don't i don't think because it was a surprise to me and i don't think that goes for just me it's like oh it wasn't ga oh okay.

[18:22] Well yeah so yeah so a lot of the key benefits that uniform unified control styling so it looks like everything looks the same the styling across the the apps improved performance as well because i know we even use as a user of pcf controls or sometimes these things are just you see the spinning and it takes a little while to come up so hopefully that's just going to make things a bit better and then of course simplify now if development's now simplified and maybe you and i It would be easier for us to learn as well. Well, we'll see. Time will tell. Tune in for the next episode, or sorry, the next episode, and you'll find out. Exactly. Low coders can do it. But yeah, and also I saw a drawing where, because it includes both the Fluid UI component and the React components as well. So before you had to kind of embed both Reactive Fluid in your component, and now you can actually, that is embedded in itself in the component infrastructure. Or kind of the base layer. And so you don't have to have that in each of the components. You can simply just add it. I think that's where the performance comes from as far as I understand. No, that makes sense. Yeah. And reuse and all the good stuff we learned in school about software development, like reuse and other things. So yeah, congrats Microsoft for getting that out. And again, we'll put the link to the blog announcement in the show notes, which links to the documentation, which hopefully will help us start building our own. Yep. Maybe there's a blog post and a video in the making. We'll see.

[19:51] As Boost tackles PCS. And also this is, of course, just a small piece of the bigger announcements that you can find in the Power Apps November update. So April Dunham created another one of the Pulse update videos that I watched to see what's new that I watch every month. She kind of summarizes all the things that are new to the designer and all the other things in our app space.

[20:21] So you also may have noticed that the designer has a UI update, looks a bit more fresh and sparkly. So, yeah. And there was a lot of new, small, teeny-weeny details in that announcement. So go ahead and check. Yeah, for sure. I'm just looking. There's a big list here, so check that out. I mean, we could have a whole episode just talking about that, I think. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. And also I wanted to mention something that came out of Ignite that kind of slipped under my radar for some reason, because I heard someone talking about highlights from Ignite the other day, and they talked about, you know, agentic AI, of course, and they talked about this and that. And then, of course, the new updates to manage solutions. I'm sorry, managed environments. And I thought, what updates?

[21:10] That totally slipped my radar. And apparently there was some licensing changes to managed environments from Ignite, where before, if you use managed environments.

[21:21] Music.

[21:27] Power Automate licenses. Now they've turned it so that it applies the other way around. And let me quote what the blog post says. As long as all active users are appropriately licensed with at least one premium license, that means either a Power Apps premium or a Power Automate premium license, managed environment features will work and customers will be compliant. And that is a very good change. So I thought I would highlight that for everyone, because managed environments really are amazing. Now it's easier to get on board with it. Yeah. And I think that this is the thing too. Like, I think this is a still, I hear a bit of confusion. You don't need special licenses for managed environments. You just need your users to have the premium licenses in order to use the environment because that's, that's always been kind of a, well, managed environments costs more like, but hold on a second. You should like this goes on a whole other rant about power apps premium licenses a power apps premium license is 20 us per user per month and then i keep hearing well that's really expensive.

[22:41] If it's too if that is too expensive then power apps is not for you yeah but of course but of course you also have the power apps per app licenses that you still have um enable you to kind of just use one app or also the pay-as-you-go one. So it is more complicated than that. Of course, if you have a huge organization with 20,000 users, you can't really have premium features and licenses for all of them. But now all active users...

[23:12] Then this applies to all active users. Yeah, fair enough. But I mean, again, I always like to go back to the how much do you spend on coffee for your employees? Now, again, not everybody does. I get that. But if you're getting business value, if there is business value, then it's a case of the power apps is a good deal if you can actually build some useful apps and you get good ROI. As opposed to trying to muck your way using Excel Online or SharePoint lists to try to do enterprise type things. But that's going to be an ongoing battle and debate, I know, but I just like to throw that out there every so often. Yeah, and let me throw something else out there because the latest, or not this one, but the one before that episode of the Nordic Summit podcast, Mark Christie and Jonas Rapp is being interviewed by Mullen and Benedict. And they talk about this exact thing is that people like Jonas Rapp made so many amazing XRAM toolbox tools for us to use. And if you as a professional use one of these and you don't contribute,

[24:25] you don't kind of pay in to help them out, it's kind of, they talk about how that's so important. And you as a professional, how much time a week do you save by using one of Jonas's tools.

[24:36] Music.

[24:44] So absolutely yeah that's my ill formatted formulated shout out and um yeah donate people yeah for sure like yeah absolutely no this is something i keep saying that every year we should have a day or a week or like for community tools as a some sort of promote all of these tools like x-ray toolbox like seriously how like i am like if everybody anybody figured it i'm sure it is save millions upon millions of dollars in terms of productivity, if not billions. And that is a free tool.

[25:20] To buy these guys a pizza or a coffee or a beer, come on. It's a no-brainer. And of course, do what we do. Shout out and tell the world about these tools so that they get more widespread. And I see Jonas, he is now updating his tools every week. I just see him pumping blog post after blog post about enhancements that he's making to his apps. Wow, where does he find the time? And this is a segue. So you know Exitium Toolbox and Exitium Toolcast and Daryl Labar, which is one of the hosts of Exitium Toolcast. I saw a blog post from Daryl that I just need to talk about because this is right up your alley. So first of all, on this blog, it says, A little dirt never hurt anyone. And, of course, the blog is .net dust, the blogspot.com. So just right off the bat, I just love that, Daryl, fantastic. And then, of course, the title of the blog, I don't think that's the title, but the first thing it says on the blog is auto-formatting if statements sucks, and then it's kind of stroking over the sucks part, and then exchange it with has room for improvement. But, of course, because I saw this in the weekly newsletter, or the Power Platform Weekly or Dev Weekly.

[26:39] And, of course, that RSS feed doesn't catch this that is kind of stroking over the word. So it actually says how it sucks and hazard improvements. I like that. And basically, it's Daryl just ranting about how Power Apps, Power FX formulas are auto-formatted and how it's all wrong and out of date and doesn't get intense.

[27:04] And uh and yeah disclaimer this entire vlog is post is an opinion is how it starts off and i just love blog posts like that this is such an old man yelling at cloud post but i love it it's so cool like it's just i i could have written something like this i totally get it i had to bring it up because i know that this would be right up your alley old man yelling at the thing doing it wrong yeah big big shout out to daryl as well if anybody uh yeah if anybody knows follow like daryl's uh he used to do a lot of videos and stuff like that too and has a lot of great content and is an overall super nice guy and an amazing developer and i know he's an independent as well so uh i'm sometimes i know sometimes he's really super busy but other times he does have availability so if you need a pro dev uh like gun for hire daryl's your man oh yeah he does a lot of good plugins right that's kind of his territory plugins and stuff yeah yeah and he's done some Community tools as well, like the late, or, oh shoot, if I get this wrong, he is going to have my head. There's a, there's, I believe it's the late bound generator.

[28:13] But anyways, because if, then it gets, there's a whole little sub, sub, sub argument of early bound versus late bound and .NET and writing plugins and everything like that. So I'm pretty sure Daryl's on. Let me just put Daryl Tool in my notes, and I'll grab Daryl's tool from XRM Toolbox and put it in there. How's that? Perfect. That's perfect. Now we have a shout out to XRM Toolcast. We have a shout out to Daryl and his blog and his tool. So you made amends. He's going to be happy anyway. Hey, Daryl. Perfect. Cool. All right. Great. So do you want to talk about the thing that we have been alluding to for the last 20 minutes? Yeah. Yeah, and I want to be obviously a little bit very, I want to say I want to tread lightly. I do and I don't. Let me put a segue in there. Talking about old men yelling out the cloud.

[29:08] First off, yeah. So for those of you who maybe have been living under a rock for years, there is someone in the community who probably everybody knows. And if you don't, like I said, where have you been? And it's Steve Morgue. And Steve is a good friend of ours. He's a friend of the podcast. I know, Steve, I know you're listening. um so i i do want to shout out and maybe celebrate your contributions as a microsoft most valuable professional to our community and i know you'll continue to do that um but uh kind of in a in a an interesting this is posted by steve actually uh he has been removed from the program for concerns about code of conduct he says apparently i was speaking a little too much truth to power, um so it kind of goes on about a little bit about the he you know but the thing is he didn't it wasn't an angry post i've seen angry posts by people who were booted out of the mvp program or people that had not been renewed in the past very bitter angry towards microsoft steve is not this at all very respectful in his post said he's not bitter talked about the program how he he really recommends it to everybody i would as well if anybody's in the community the mvp program is a lot of fun. You get a lot of it. It is a lot of work. You have to determine if it's right for you.

[30:27] But yeah, and the thing is, we know about Steve is he does do a lot of posts. He calls out a lot of criticism on what Microsoft does, which I feel, if done correctly, we shouldn't be afraid to criticize Microsoft. We do.

[30:44] And again, without spilling any kind of secrets, you and I, we had a meeting with other MVPs, with the product team last week. And it was a very engaging conversation. And we provided some very...

[30:59] Uh very uh unfiltered feedback yes which which they they took because you know we were respectful about it we had a conversation it wasn't like we gave the reasons why we felt that this was important and they and microsoft they took that they took that criticism as well and i also know i was speaking to someone pretty senior in the microsoft chain after this announcement came out too. And that person even also said, yeah, we need to be called out on our own BS basically sometimes. Now there's ways to do it. And it's also how things are interpreted. So I don't really want to get into the, well, you know, Steve thinks it's this one post that he posted that probably just went a little bit over the line, which kind of caused him to be removed from the MVP program. Again, I want to be very careful on that because I don't, I also don't want to put any bad light on microsoft or on steve but it's just one of these situations that i think just deserves to be called out in terms of steve i want to call out steve's contributions to the community because it's been very good his contributions toward microsoft i believe some of steve's stuff has greatly improved microsoft's product um and but then yeah that sometimes but realizing we're all human we all make mistakes um sometimes it's a case of.

[32:12] Um, we need to be able to be in a, in a good place to provide some of that feedback. And again, we just have to probably go about it the right way. And sometimes realize as we do step on toes and sometimes there are consequences, uh, to that. But, uh, also Steve's a very good storyteller, right? That's one of the, he's such a good storyteller. And in the blog post as well, he said that he was kind of planning on exiting the program program. So it wasn't out of the blue. And I know Steve is a very strategic man. He knows what he's doing. So I don't think any of this came as any surprise to him.

[32:49] And also, if you are curious about, Steve isn't one of those people that will rant and complain behind anyone's back. He's the guy that calls up Charles Lamanna and has a one and a half hour candid discussion with Charles about AI. And is it the Emperor's New Clothes kind of thing? And is it real? And is it, does it have a future? He asked a hard question that everyone's asking, but he's asking it to the source directly. And I absolutely love that. And I'm going to miss Steve in the discussions, in the room with the product team, because he really does speak truth to power. And I think just my personal opinion, I think they're missing out if they're kicking in and out of the program, but if he's exiting on his own well and as a strategic plan, And then that's completely fine as well. So I'm going to miss you, Steve, in the program. And I think you've done all of us a huge favor by speaking truth of power. And yeah, I'm looking forward to more candid stuff from you because I know that you're not going to stop even though you're no longer an MVP. And I can't wait to see what you come up with next.

[34:00] Yeah. Yeah, and now the fact that he doesn't have that, I don't want to call it a leash, but sort of that control, that governor on his speed there, then we'll sort of see what comes out as well. So I know it'll be interesting to watch.

[34:20] But again, thanks, Steve, for all that you do. And we'll continue to do, and we're looking forward to it. Absolutely. All right. So there's a few other things we need to mention. This, we are now in the middle of December. And what do we have in abundance in December? Of advent calendars. And there is so much fun. And I just need to say, first of all, first of all, Rory Mary, I love you.

[34:51] I can't. Every day in my feed, there's a song from Rory. And I just love it. I just absolutely love it. And it just makes my day. So that is by far. Sorry, everyone. and I just want to name Rory as my favorite and we're going to put links to it in the show notes and of course it's very it's not just because our podcast was the first, doer so to speak on Rory's Christmas calendar or advent calendar so we're going to put links to his LinkedIn profile in the show notes for you guys to follow and see all the old posts that he's done and I know Rory listens to our podcast usually when he's doing some sort of chores around the house or whatever he's up to. So Rory, I hope you're enjoying this episode and I hope whatever chores are going smoothly and you're getting the work done that you need to get done. Yeah, definitely. I know he usually listens to us when he mows the lawn. I don't think the lawn needs mowing and I don't think he has snow. So I'm curious, what are you doing now, Rory?

[35:59] I'm sure he'll let us know. Yeah, I think he will. Maybe it's in the next song. Okay. And then we have Power Platform Learners with the same hashtag. So this kind of confused me to begin with. I just need to say that out loud because Rory is posting his advent calendar as a Power Platform advent calendar. And then suddenly I found another one with the same hashtag, Power Platform advent calendar. But there are two different things. Okay. Yeah. So, Power Platform Learners has different content every day.

[36:32] We had a day five ProCut approach for PowerPages custom CSS and JavaScript, for instance, by Nikita Shrevnensky. No, I'm sorry. Shrevnensky? Shrevnensky? Okay. Yeah. We have now two Nikitas. I love that. That was very good. And also, he had a very neat trick for how to bypass the fact that you can upload JavaScripts through the model-driven app for PowerPages directly. If you try to upload the JavaScript there as a web file, it will not allow it. But he had a very nice little trick how to bypass it. So that's just a little, yeah, a little nippet for you. You have to go in and check out day number five of the PowerPack from Learner's admin calendar. And then we have a future a day with Co-Pilot Studio, a monthly mastery by Katerina Srebka. Trinev Srebka. Trinev Srebka. Yep. Which I've seen a lot of her content before. And I haven't really looked too deep into this. But if you want to learn Copilot Studio, I guess there's 24 pieces of content that you can find by following her admin calendar as well. Cool.

[37:50] And of course, FestiveTechCalendar.com is running every year. I was a part of it, I think, two or three years ago during COVID. That's longer. Yeah, maybe five years ago even. And they have two pieces of content or more each day.

[38:06] It's a mix of blog posts and videos and online stuff so and it and it spans across the whole um marks of stack so that's very fun you have asher stuff in there you have power platform stuff in there you have a lot of other things um.

[38:21] And do you want to talk about the next few things or do you want me to just run through them, uh well not sure you you added these so it's all good but i don't see our friend tino is uh also doing um a one on power pages power pages themes of course because that's what tino tino's uh famous for i'm sure he does other stuff too like me but yeah um different um power pages advent calendar day one is what is power pages so he has a little video on that and basically what it's all about and um we'll continue on through the month all these new updates so yeah good stuff you know small little snippets and also he dresses up differently for each video so i'm curious i'm gonna watch all 24 posts you know just to see how many different outfits you can pull out of that hat so to speak pun intended.

[39:16] Cool and then um okay last one, Yeah, so Bulint Altensoy, Appreciation Calendar. So he's shouting out different people every day, people he's met in the community. I think it's interesting because Bulint, he is constantly, I think he's on LinkedIn probably, it seems to be all the time. He's always posting, but he's also always promoting other people. Yes, he has the co-pilot newsletter as well. So definitely check that out. We should put the link in there. I think we talked about this before. Well, yeah, we have been listening to that so many times. yeah and it's interesting because apparently we we did maybe meet briefly in hamburg this year i apologize i don't remember this but he was still kind of new as an as an attendee but then we met each other in oslo last saturday in person for the first time um which is cool because i know he works with angeliki and i've been working with angeliki so he was sort of the common denominator in terms of this so uh that was pretty interesting to finally meet him in person now he has this the shout out of everybody. And he's actually did one on basically shout it out to me on Saturday.

[40:22] I always get a little self-conscious of these things sometimes because I kind of like maybe you call it imposter syndrome or something else, but I'm sort of like, I don't know. It's this sort of and I think people can kind of put two and two together. Nick doesn't like when And people put him on pedestals, but he absolutely loves and appreciates it. So there you go. There you go. Yeah. Anyways, so those are the advent calendars. And I think we're, in terms of our time, we're already a little bit over what we planned. You're going to play Time Cup now? What? I thought this is a, oh, okay. Ah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Absolutely. Sure, sure, sure. So what did you want to close off with? did you want to tell the people about all the events that you're going to oh man i'm just know what let's let's save this for next time because let's just close out 2024 i think someone asked me the other day how many events i've been to it's probably close to 20 when it's all said and done this past year whether it's speaking organizing even attending a few whatever um it's been it's been great i have a whole pile of land yards and stuff 2025 i think i'm definitely going to scale back a lot. I need to get my powerlifting stuff back on track.

[41:49] And those types of things. So we'll sort of, I say that now, and then we'll next month, like, fly away. I know, guys, you don't believe him either. And I know I'm going to have to hit him over the head with something really heavy and hard one day, because he's going to go to all of them anyways, I know. And you know that. Actually, it's to the point where I was at a conference, I think that was Scottish Summit, and you weren't there. Someone came up to me and said, what?

[42:13] He's not here? How's that going to work? Because he's the one who's always here. Who's going to carry this experience onto the next thing it's like what if nick's not here then we might even not just be here any of us you know so it's that you're kind of the person that keeps the history going from one place to another no actually that's been joe this year joe griffin he's been all of them i think if anyone has been to more conferences than you then it's it's for sure joe and i were talking about it like you know people think i travel like well joe can easily say hold might be or because he's uh i think he's been home like 10 days in total this year it's absolutely that's just i just this figure i put on the top of my head we have to get joe to to give us the real number of how many days he's had home whole day because that is just crazy but you know you gather collect experiences and he's traveled the world and so have you so um but it's okay you do that for a year and then you scale back the next because it's uh we're human even though it seems like we're machines sometimes we do have family and we are human yeah and sometimes there's other there's stuff going on in the background and everything as well so but yeah it's a lot of fun we do have one more episode this year so we're not done for 2024 yet um it looks like based on the calendar to be released on December 25th. That's Christmas Day.

[43:38] Yeah. So is that when you, that's the Christmas being Christmas Day for you, isn't it? Yeah. Well, for a lot of people, yeah. Or, you know, Christmas Eve the night before and Christmas Day, yeah. Because here, the eve is the big deal. Right. So on Christmas Day, we're all dressed up in our PJs and then kind of sleep in. And then maybe there's some dinner somewhere on the evening. But the big day is kind of the 24th. But you have it the other way around, right? I think it's every family is different. Yeah, let us know what you're – I know not everybody celebrates Christmas either. But basically, some people do Christmas Eve and they do a big thing. And then Christmas Day is a bit more chill or sometimes it's a combination of both. Yeah, so it would be... Actually, yeah. Next time, we would love for you guys to comment where you were when you heard us next time. And of course, this time as well, because we know, and I remember back in the day when the UpCup podcast, they also used to say that, yeah, we get emails from people telling us they're listening to us while they run or commute or in the car or stuff. We want to hear that as well. Where do you guys listen to us? We know Rory moves the lawn.

[44:53] Where are you right now? Let us know. Because we want to know. For sure. Looking forward to finding out. Definitely. With that, we will close it off. Time Cup did a bad job today. We're at 44 minutes. It's going to be a long one. And I'm done playing Time Cup. I don't win anyways. Okay.

[45:13] Cool. Have a wonderful week, everyone. And we'll catch you in a couple of weeks. See you later.

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