David Roys

AL Image Property Lookup Tip TIL (which ironically I only looked up the other day to discover it means "Today I Learned") that when you are trying to select an image for an action in AL code you can use Ctrl+Spacebar to toggle th...

TIL using Ctrl+Spacebar on an image property a second time will toggle the preview on and off (there you go saved you a click through by writing a good summary :-) #MSDyn365BC #ProgrammingTip

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Curious to know why there was seemingly no issues in NZ or Australia. Do you think propagation stopped before it got here? For those countries where BC was effected were you informed by MS of the cause and could you do? Just sit and wait?

That’s cool, but does AI really do a good job of this? The lookup for a vendor from the buy-from vendor name is not a magnifying glass as it suggests.

#TVShows Just finished watching the second season of Patriot on Prime. What an amazing show. I heard about it from @snell.zone who called it “Sad Spies”. I loved this show. Reminded me of Wes Anderson movies. Highly recommend.

I find LinkedIn too noisy. Same for Yammer (Viva Engage). I regularly check my BlueSky feed and appreciate all the posts we get here. Then again, I never posted on X either.

Fascism For First Time Founders Over the last year or so I’ve seen a disturbing tendency in tech/startup/VC worlds to buy into the neoreactionary view that for startups to be successful they need to get on board the Trump t…

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This powerful message: “I did the research and found out I was wrong.”

I’m not going to say much more except please take the time to watch. Then send it around to family and friends, no matter their political persuasion.

Part I

I wonder if this is a way to design “intuitive” features? Ask AI how to do the thing you want to build and then build it the way AI suggested. 🤪

Soundslice builds a feature after ChatGPT keeps telling users it exists when it didn’t. www.holovaty.com/writing/chat.... This made me think of all the times I’ve been asked about features of #msdyn365bc that don’t exist - that AI made up.

@matnav.co.uk Hi Matthew, have you seen the post about the feed provider for Business Central shutting down?

Please upvote this suggestion if you agree it would make BC better experience.dynamics.com/ideas/idea/?...

In short, make Azure File and Blob services work with files larger than 155MB.

#MSDyn365BC #bcideas

Oh yes! I totally loved Dept. Q. Also Slow Horses soooo good.

Guessing it’s because delegated admins cannot trigger background tasks.

There’s some disturbingly vague language in this post: “For local development on Docker, equivalent functionality *will likely* become available in a new PowerShell module released as part of AL-Go for GitHub.”

Overnight low of 3 Celsius. Midday high of 12. That’s 37 to 54 Fahrenheit.

A pizza base on a peel with no toppings. Rolling pin, flour, and mozzarella on the kitchen side showing pizza making in progress.

Pizza with buffalo mozzarella and prosciutto ham making its way to the Ooni pizza oven.

Pizza cooking in the oven.

Steaming hot pizza on the board ready to cut with wine ready to pour.

It’s getting cold now, so taking advantage of the sunshine and enjoying the last pizza of the season. #foodsky #ooni.

Outlook is a mess. Email popout window is being edited but main window still responds to backspace: edit email and watch emails get deleted from the list as you correct typos. Also send to email recipient from Word pops the email dialog in Outlook but when u send it goes nowhere.

Thanks so much for the clarification. That really helped me.

Yes that’s what I meant. Ok not Oct 2025. I couldn’t tell from the link if SOAP end was 2026 R2?

#MSDyn365BC support for CU WS published as SOAP ending for BC SaaS Oct 25 right? Docs for conversion to ODataV4 is terrible. So far I found var parameters and XMLport parameters not supported. Any other gotchas people know about?

Gotta love Carrot Weather app on iPhone. Today’s mission? Find the Gulf of Mexico.

George Carlin made this point about 20 years ago.

Descaled my coffee maker and now my coffee tastes worse? Descaling is a myth paid for by Big Vinegar.

Former ACT Party president named for sexually abusing boys Former ACT Party president Tim Jago can now be named as the political figure who plied boys with alcohol and sexually abused them in the 1990s.

www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3605...

Now let’s have the media all over this for weeks like they have with other prominent political figures who didn’t do anything half as bad as this. And if they don’t? Then we are really in trouble, NZ.

I updated to latest NNW not sure how to update the theme. Still same. Tried diff theme and it fixed. Switch back to default—still broke. Weird. Maybe Brent’s problem.

I’m so sorry to hear of your loss. What a terrible thing. Thank you for thinking of others after this awful news.

@gruber.foo reading daringfireball.net/2025/01/one_... using NetNewsWire mobile app I noticed hyperlinks in footnotes (using Bigfoot style pop up) renders the hyperlink as white text on white background. Not sure if this issue is yours but thought I would let you know. Example screenshot attached.

It’s a shame. What I want is to have 0 be an unselectable Enum value that shows in the UI as an empty string and not a string containing a single space. I am mapping an interface to an external schema that supports null (unspecified) values. I guess I can live with the space. Thanks for the tip!

I think I should have tagged with #bcalhelp instead of alhelp.

Shows programming code for a value of an enumerated type in AL language as follows: value(0; " ")     {         Caption = ' ';     }

#ALHelp When defining an enum, if I want the first (default) option to appear empty, is the only way to have a single space like we used to do with Options? I wanted to have an empty string ("") but this shows on pages as "0".