Last year, I didn’t have the opportunity to deliver 16 sessions across the world like in 2017 because I had to slow down my trips, or I didn’t participate as I would or did in the past in some communities, and I don’t regret a single second. If I have to describe 2018 in a single word, I have to choose: family.
I don’t have any difficulty in selecting the best moments. My baby boy was born, and I moved my family to a bigger house because we now have 3 kids, two beautiful girls, like their mother, and of course, a mini-me.
📝 One-Minute Brief
One-Minute Brief (TL;DR):
So, as you may imagine, I struggle to have free time, but when you love what you do, instead of finding excuses, you will always find a way to do it. So in the end, I was able to:
- I published 70 new posts in my blog; I wrote more blog posts than in 2017, and I just now realized that! And the countries that have visited my blog the most still are the United States, followed by India, the United Kingdom, and Canada, in a total of 194 countries
- Publish 2 guest blog posts on Serveless360
- Publish 8 guest blog posts on BizTalk360
- Moreover, publishing 2 whitepapers:
However, that is not all:
- Deliver 5 speaking sessions:
- IntegrationMonday |online |The birth of a new SSO Application Configuration Tool
- XXXX Porto.Data meeting, March 27 | Porto | Automatization Platform with Dynamics 365 | Dynamics365, Microsoft Flow and PowerApps
- CSI about Microsoft Flow and PowerApps
- Integrate 2018 | London | BizTalk Server Notes from the Road
- MVPDays Microsoft Flow Conference 2018 | online | How we use Microsoft Flow and PowerApps: Real cases scenarios
And this is just a small set of my contributions because I still publish several small scripts and sample codes on TechNet Gallery and Code Gallery and help in other ways the community.
My favorite’s posts
The top posts that I enjoyed writing or added more fun to last year were:
- Microsoft Flow: Tuning your Flow for performance
- Processing Feedback Evaluations (paper) automagically with SmartDocumentor OCR, Microsoft Flow & Power BI
- Processing Feedback Evaluations (paper) automagically with SmartDocumentor OCR, Logic Apps, Azure Functions & Power BI
Because of the fact that people normally look at me and think that I’m a BizTalk guy, but I really do more than BizTalk Server, I only like to write about real stuff that I use daily, and indeed, I had a lot of fun writing this blog post and real-life cases.
And of course, to close this list:
Thanks for following me, for reading my blog, and I promise that I will continue to share my knowledge in 2019.
Hope you find this helpful! If you liked the content or found it useful and would like to support me in writing more, consider buying (or helping to buy) a Star Wars Lego set for my son.
