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When I started my new career in the beginning of 2023, I wanted to prepare myself. I had been working for a carpet manufacturer for 23 years (mainly with IT projects)
For the first few months, if I needed to solve an issue, I googled the issue, and usually found the solution.
It took me a long time to realize what, for example, PNP was (if you don’t know about PNP, then you landed on the right page).
I started to build out my feed on x.com and LinkedIn by following my colleague Dan Toft, by following posts written be people, that he liked
There is so much content and news out there, that you can’t read it all (or know it all), but it is important (I think) to follow the latest news when working in tech
Blogs
matthewdevaney.com
This guy is my absolute idol. He posts about low code stuff, and it’s not a secret that he was the biggest inspiration for creating my own blog
blog.dan-toft.dk
If Dan can’t fix it, it can’t be fixed. This guy knows everything there is to know, and each month he post about the latest Microsoft 365 news on his blog.
PNP (Pattern & Practises)
PNP is what I would call the un-official standard for different things like List Formatting, Powershell etc. It is community driven, but even Microsoft started to implement the PNP solutions into their own products.
Column formatting
View samples
The best repository out there with examples of column formatting and view formatting - and it is well maintained
PNP PowerShell
To me this feels like cheating - use these powerful commands to change almost everything that you can’t do out-of-the-box
Newsletters
I am really not a newsletter kind of guy, but there is one newsletter out there that always brings my attention
Power Platform Weekly
This newsletter is a mix of different Power Platform blog posts, and I learned a lot of tips and tricks from this newsletter