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2024

Reading feather files in Power BI

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Now that we know how to set up our local virtual environment and install the required packages, we can start reading the feather file in Power BI. First act...

Using Python in Power BI

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In the former blog post we set up the virtual environment for Python in Power BI. In this post, I will show you how to use Python in Power BI. To check Be ...

Setting up Python for Power BI

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It is possible to use Python in Power BI. This is a great feature because it allows you to use Python scripts to manipulate your data. In this post, I will s...

Setting up a virtual environment in Python

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Intro Python knowns the concept of virtual envirnomnets. A virtual environment is a self-contained directory tree that contains a Python installation for a ...

2023

Dot NET Conf 2023 sessions online

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This week .NET 8 was released and just like last year accompanied by 3 days of conference filled with great sessions and new announcements. The sessions are ...

Make use of colored braces in Visual Studio

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I have always been a fan of extensions that make my life easier. One of those extensions was the Rainbow braces extension by Mads Kristensen. This extension ...

Booth duty at Microsoft Build Netherlands 2023

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Just came back from Utrecht Netherlands where I helped out at the Global AI booth at Microsoft Build Netherlands 2023. It was a great experience to talk to p...

Obtained my AI Skills challenge certification

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A while ago I wrote about the upcoming AI skills challenge. I’m happy to announce that I’ve completed the challenge and obtained my certification.

Microsoft Learn AI Skills Challenge

- less than 1 minute read

In the past AI was a bit of a strange thing for most people and companies. But today AI is everywhere and it is here to stay. Nowadays most people have heard...

MVP award regained

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Last year I didn’t get renewed as an MVP. I was disappointed but I understood the decision as many lost it that time due to the culling after the Covid-19 er...

Gave a talk at Team4Talent Netherlands .NET event

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I just finished my talk at the Team4Talent Netherlands .NET event. I gave me popular session The stuff you don’t want to write: Documentation. The session wa...

2022

Not renewed as an MVP

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Today I got notified that I didn’t make it for another year as an MVP… That left me with a pretty hollow feeling at first as I’ve been an MVP for 16 years no...

Delivered a presentation at DevDays Europe 2022

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Today I had the opportunity to speak at Devdays Europe 2022. Normally it would’ve been in Vilnius, a city I only visited once before and liked a lot, but due...

Using SqlBulkCopy with .NET lists

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Recently I was in a situation where I had to quickly inject loads of data into a SQL database. The basic setup of the application:

Registered for MVP summit 2022 edition

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That time of year again… the MVP summit. Due to Covid-19 unfortunately again virtual but still great to look forward to. Seeing new technology being presente...

15 years as a Microsoft MVP

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I got my blue ring which marks 15 years of being a Microsoft MVP. I’m quite proud of that particular achievement to be honest. I started out as an ASP.NET MV...

Happy New Year, Happy 2022

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Another year has gone and what a year it has been. Covid-19 still ruled the major headlines, people got vaccinated (or not) and all around the globe people t...

2019

Spoke at Azure Saturday Cologne 2019 yesterday

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Yesterday I had the pleasure to speak at Azure Saturday Cologne, Germany about Visual Studio Code. The room was filled with interested people and I went off ...

I went speaking at Azure Day Poland

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Today I was in Poland for the annual Azure Day Poland. A great gathering of (inter)national speakers about Microsoft Azure technology in the beautiful city o...

Got my picture drawn by Reverentgeek

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At the MVP summit currently and there’s a talented person which takes your picture and uses his iPad pro and pencil to make a nice looking drawing out of it....

Making use of the tree command in DOS

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A couple of weeks ago I was playing around with NServicebus on localhost. The nice thing about it is that it’ll make use of files in different subfolders if ...

Change the language version of a C# project

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The C# team brings out new features in small releases like C# 7.1, 7.2 or 7.3 for example. Now you might notice that when you create a new project that not a...

Must have extensions for Visual Studio

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I started a new job at a new client recently and of course I had to install a new laptop provided by the client.

4 stages of production pain

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Recently I was in a discussion about (Azure) DevOps, bugs and their severity. Besides being an interesting discussion we came up with the following list:

Object.keys helped me solve a problem

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Last week I took a day out of my holiday to help out a colleague. I basically already left the client but didn’t want to leave my follow up in the cold.

2018

I went speaking about Bots at CODECAMP Romania

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Yesterday I went to Romania for the first time ever in my life. Reason: I went speaking at the CODECAMP conference Bucharest edition (apparently the first on...

I got reawarded as a Microsoft Azure MVP

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I got reawarded as an MVP for my continued volunteering work in the Azure space. Today was a day that all MVP’s in the world got to know if they were renewed...

Global Azure Bootcamp Belgian Edition

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Last Saturday was not only beautiful weather in Belgium, actually it was really great weather, but it was also Global Azure Bootcamp. Me and Tom Kerkhove ran...

I went speaking at Azure Day Poland

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Today I was presenting in Poland. More specifically in Warsaw at the Microsoft building for Azure Day Poland. It was a well organized event with a great atmo...

Back from the MVP summit

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Last week I was visiting the USA for the annual MVP summit. I must say, one of the best editions I attended in year. First of all, it’s always great to see s...

I went speaking at Microsoft Tech Summit Frankfurt

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Normally I was only going to help out as a proctor during a workshop at Tech Summit. However on Tuesday evening I got a call from Microsoft corp in Redmond i...

Increase performance of Visual Studio 2017

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Visual Studio 2017 is a great tool and I spend quite a lot of my professional days in it. On its own it’s already a great editor but the power is in extensio...

I changed my Twitter handle

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For years I’ve been using @KvdM for most things, Twitter, Github, … Due to some 2 factor authentication problems and as Github wasn’t really providing the ne...

2017

CloudBrew 2017 was a blast

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On Saturday November 25th 2017 me and my buddies from azug organized our annual CloudBrew event at the Lamot venue in pictoresque Mechelen city. The weather ...

I attended the uNite day at Ordina

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Last Thursday I was invited to come to the free local conference uNite at Ordina. It was an interesting agenda (see below) and because I used to work there f...

Moving my blog to Jekyll

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Since around 2006 I’ve been using dasBlog as my main engine to keep my posts up and running. Since then a lot has changed in the world and I noticed that it ...

I got renewed as an MVP

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I’m happy and honored to announce I got awarded as an Azure MVP for the coming year.

Free Azure Training Courses

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If you would like to keep up date with Microsoft Azure and can spare some hours watching videos this might be something for you:

Visual Studio 2017 launch poster

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A couple of weeks Visual Studio 2017 was released to the public. If you want to see the announcements and keynotes be sure to navigate to https://channel9.ms...