On Gender Reveal Parties

I know gender reveal parties are controversial.

Sometimes they cause cringey TikTok videos. Sometimes they start California Wildfires.

Gender is a social construct. My children should be free to explore and discover its interfluidity in their own time. We should really call them sex reveal parties (though the sex reveal happens in the pregnancy announcement – amirite?)

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D365 Finance | Excel Add-in Data Connector from Scratch

In this video, we look at building a master data report using the excel data connector.

Building the report from scratch instead of relying on the “open in excel” template experiences helped me better understand the connections made using the tool.

Some Concepts:

  • Using Excel Data Connector Add-in
  • Why Does Edge Open My Excel Download File In a New Tab First?
  • Getting Dynamics Connector Add-in for Excel
  • Connecting to Dynamics environment through Dynamics Connector
  • Creating Report Across Multiple Data Entities in One Excel Table
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Project Financial Dimension Report – D365 Finance & Excel

In this video, we look at building a report based on project financial dimensions using the excel data connector.

Some Concepts:

  • Master data reporting through listpage views
  • Export to excel vs Open in Excel
  • Financial dimension configuration for OData connections
  • Mediocre usage of text-to-columns in Excel
  • Financial dimension and chart of accounts delimiter
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Bedtime Medley

The paradox of bedtime is that a baby won’t fall asleep while you are thinking “Why won’t this baby go to sleep?!?!“. Though the longer it takes, the more you are driven to fixate on that question. Like zen meditation, you have to do it by intently not focusing on the task at hand.

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