Category: Development

FXB & FXE are 7 years old 👨‍❤️‍💋‍👨

~ Jonas Rapp ~ 1 Comment

I just read a LinkedIn post from Jordi Montaña Vázquez about his excellence test tools FakeXrmEasy. On 23 November the tool was 7 years anniversary! 🥳

Hey, something from “FXE” remines me about “FXB“, and didn’t I release FetchXML Builder about some time 2014, and probably roughly just 7 years ago?

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Custom Translations – the Easy Way

~ Jonas Rapp ~ 4 Comments

In many customer projects and products, I have built solutions for managing translations in Microsoft Dynamics 365 / CDS / CRM.
Sure, the metadata can be translated to show labels etc in the language of the user, but having a custom solution for translations ensures localized content for texts that are shown to the user from code or automation.

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Git Submodules in Visual Studio

~ Jonas Rapp ~ 11 Comments

Ever since I started working with development, I have both created and consumed libraries, frameworks, utilities and snippets to simplify and streamline my code. The methods to include this code have varied a lot; from simply copy-pasting code to linked files to private NuGet servers with build automation, full CI/CD etc.

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Balancing Cool Tech, Usability and TCO

~ Jonas Rapp ~ 2 Comments

I’m a techie.
I like new, shiny, cool stuff.

Newest however, usually costs.
And customers usually like cheap.

Users don’t care about either.
They just want a system that empowers more than it obstructs.

So how do you find the balance between the three? Is it even possible? Or is it just another Project Management Triangle?

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