Barret Blake

Dev, leader, gamer, writer, me

Columbus, Ohio Joined on Jul 17, 2019 https://barretblake.dev

Education

DeVry

Work

Developer/Manager/Human at Here

JavaScript, C#, SQL, Flow, Azure, PowerApps, .NET all the things

Power Automate, Azure Data Factory, Blazor, .NET Core

various learning things

speaking, podcasts, training, small freelance projects for .NET, Power Automate, ADF, C#

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Barret Blake

Mar 26

More Fun with AI Generated Images

#tech #ai #aiart #images

3 min read

Barret Blake

Mar 26

How do I get started with Power Automate?

#development #flow #powerautomate

5 min read

Barret Blake

Jan 25

2023 Festive Tech Calendar – Soft Skills for Developers

#softskills #video #festivetechcalendar

1 min read

Barret Blake

Jan 25

AI Still Has A Major Problem With Race and Gender

#development #ai #equality #racism

9 min read

Barret Blake

Jan 25

2023 C# Advent – What’s New in Entity Framework Core 8

#development #video #c #cadvent

1 min read

Barret Blake

Jan 25

Copilot for Power Automate

#development #githubcopilot #flow #powerautomate

7 min read

Barret Blake

Jan 25

Slides from CincyDeliver

#community #conferences #softskills #tech

1 min read

Barret Blake

Jan 25

My Favorite Podcasts & Video Channels for 2023

#development #podcast #video #c

5 min read

Barret Blake

Jan 25

Rockin’ the Code World with Me!

#development #podcast #video #lowcode

1 min read

Barret Blake

Jan 25

C# and Power Automate To Sync An Outlook Calendar

#development #c #dotnet #flow

10 min read

Barret Blake

Jan 25

Automatically Adding Travel Time To Your Calendar

#development #bingmaps #flow #powerautomate

6 min read

Barret Blake

Jan 25

Power Automate vs Azure Logic Apps

#development #flow #logicapps #powerautomate

7 min read

Barret Blake

Jan 25

My New Job

#community #life #career #newjob

14 min read

Barret Blake

Feb 1 '23

What’s The Deal With ChatGPT

#development #tech #ai #chatgpt

9 min read

Barret Blake

Feb 1 '23

Creating a Check-in Reminder App

#development #canvasapp #excel #flow

6 min read

Barret Blake

Feb 1 '23

Turning Any JSON API Into An App

#development #c #cadvent

8 min read

Barret Blake

Feb 1 '23

Advent of Code 2022

#development #adventofcode2022 #c

1 min read

Barret Blake

Feb 1 '23

Festive Tech Calendar 2022

#conferences #development #alexa #festivetechcalendar

1 min read

Barret Blake

Feb 1 '23

Using DALL-E and Power Automate To Create and Share Images

#development #aiart #flow #openai

7 min read

Barret Blake

Feb 1 '23

A Day In The Life

#development #life

10 min read

Barret Blake

Feb 1 '23

An Overview of SQL Data Types

#development #datatypes #database

7 min read

Barret Blake

Nov 16 '22

Imposter Syndrome Never Ends – And That’s Fine

#development #life #impostersyndrome #softskills

6 min read

Barret Blake

Nov 15 '22

Function Friday – Chunk, Sort & Reverse

#development #flow #functionfriday #powerautomate

2 min read

Barret Blake

Nov 10 '22

Video: AI Builder – Creating a Custom Image Recognition Model

#development #aibuilder #flow #imagerecognition

1 min read

Barret Blake

Nov 10 '22

Follow Friday – Tech Twitter

#community #followfriday #techtwitter

4 min read

Barret Blake

Nov 10 '22

Video: An Intro to AI Builder on Power Automate

#development #video #aibuilder #flow

1 min read

Barret Blake

Nov 3 '22

Function Friday – Xpath

#development #flow #functionfriday #powerautomate

2 min read

Barret Blake

Oct 26 '22

Function Friday – Coalesce

#development #flow #functionfriday #powerautomate

1 min read

Barret Blake

Oct 26 '22

It’s Your Time Off… Take It

#life #culture #timeoff

3 min read

Barret Blake

Oct 26 '22

Function Friday – JSON Manipulation

#development #flow #functionfriday #json

3 min read

Barret Blake

Oct 26 '22

Error Handling with Power Automate

#development #errors #flow #powerautomate

4 min read

Barret Blake

Oct 26 '22

Function Friday – URI Parsing Functions

#development #flow #functionfriday #powerautomate

3 min read

Barret Blake

Oct 26 '22

Azure Back to School 2022 – Moving Massive Mountains of Magnificent Data

#conferences #development #adf #azure

1 min read

Barret Blake

Oct 26 '22

The Employee Right to Privacy

#community #life #tech #employment

6 min read

Barret Blake

Oct 26 '22

Function Friday – Date and Time Wrap Up: Timezones and Ticks

#development #datetime #flow #functionfriday

3 min read

Barret Blake

Sep 7 '22

Video: Power Automate – Starting with a Template

#development #video #flow #powerautomate

1 min read

Barret Blake

Sep 7 '22

Azure Back to School 2022 – Saving Customer Relationships with Azure Cognitive Services

#conferences #development #azure #azurebacktoschool

1 min read

Barret Blake

Sep 7 '22

Function Friday – More Date and Time Fun: startOf and dayOf

#development #datetime #flow #functionfriday

2 min read

Barret Blake

Sep 7 '22

An Introduction To Databases

#development #database #nosql #sql

5 min read

Barret Blake

Sep 7 '22

Video: Creating Our First Power Automate Flow

#development #video #flow #powerautomate

1 min read

Barret Blake

Aug 22 '22

Function Friday – Formatting and Parsing Dates and Times

#development #datetime #flow #functionfriday

4 min read

Barret Blake

Aug 22 '22

Is a College Degree Necessary To Find A Tech Job?

#development #life #experience #hiring

5 min read

Barret Blake

Aug 15 '22

Function Friday: Date and Time Addition

#development #datetime #flow #functionfriday

3 min read

Barret Blake

Aug 12 '22

Video – A Brief Introduction to Microsoft Power Automate

#development #video #flow #powerautomate

1 min read

Barret Blake

Aug 12 '22

Function Friday: Data Type Conversion Functions – Arrays, JSON and XML

#development #flow #functionfriday #powerautomate

2 min read

Barret Blake

Aug 3 '22

Using Application Insights For Better Application Logging

#development #applicationinsights #azure

7 min read

Barret Blake

Aug 3 '22

Function Friday: Binary, DataUri, UriComponent, and Base64 Conversion Functions

#development #conversion #flow #functionfriday

3 min read

Barret Blake

Jul 28 '22

Power Automate: Connectors from Independent Publishers

#development #connectors #flow #powerautomate

5 min read

Barret Blake

Jul 19 '22

Guest Post: What are the different types of interviews?

#development

7 min read

Barret Blake

Jul 13 '22

A Brief Introduction to Azure Data Factory

#development

6 min read

Barret Blake

Jul 13 '22

Function Friday – Data Type Conversion Functions – Bool, Decimal, Float, Int, String

#development #flow #functionfriday #powerautomate

3 min read

Barret Blake

Jul 7 '22

The Ethics of Being a Software Developer

#community #development #tech #ai

9 min read

Barret Blake

Jul 5 '22

Function Friday – Collection Functions: Contains, Item, Join

#development #collections #flow #functionfriday

2 min read

Barret Blake

Jul 5 '22

My Being Fired/Laid Off Horror Stories

#community #life #career #fired

8 min read

Barret Blake

Jun 15 '22

Function Friday – Collection Functions: Intersection, Union, Skip, Take

#archive #development #collections #flow

3 min read

Barret Blake

Jun 15 '22

Function Friday – Collection Functions – First, Last, Empty, Length

#development #collections #flow #functionfriday

3 min read

Barret Blake

Jun 15 '22

My Favorite Podcasts & Video Channels for 2022

#development #podcast #tech #adventuresinnet

3 min read

Barret Blake

Jun 15 '22

Communication: The Missing Skill

#archive #community #development #communication

8 min read

Barret Blake

Apr 12 '22

Function Friday – More Math

#development #flow #functionfriday #powerautomate

2 min read

Barret Blake

Apr 5 '22

Easily Create New Bulk Work Items From a Spreadsheet

#development #azuredevops #excel #flow

6 min read

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