Show Notes: Episode 181 - I Need Coffee (sept 19, 2025)
1. Personal Updates and Multitasking:
- Managed live stream while arranging express courier for daughter's forgotten science project (thermal capacity/insulation experiment).
2. Weekend Activities:
- Visited El Tazumal, a Salvadoran restaurant, for pupusas ($5 each, $40 for 8, shocked El Salvador team).
- Performed pool maintenance with cybersecurity intern, prepared for fall/winter.
- Smoked a 14.8 lb brisket for 14 hours, shared with neighbors; daughters made brisket sandwiches.
- Watched F1 movie on Amazon with Brad Pitt and Javier Bardem, exceeded expectations.
3. Work and Projects:
- Team Updates:
- Joselyn: Working on BC financial reports, categorizing GL accounts for row formats/layouts.
- Tanya: Provided PowerBI billable hours report for weekly team utilization tracking.
- David: Finalizing report layout changes.
- Ronald: Handling McCormma Payment Hub, troubleshooting permission set issue; testing bill.com MEM integration.
- Franklin: Completed E4CC and English conversational classes, improving BC development discussions; conducted code review.
- Fatima: 70% through 10-hour PMI PMP training, tracking BC27 pipeline errors and El Coyolar Christmas Festival planning.
- Bill.com MEM Integration:
- Go-live scheduled today; complex project started in February, using bill.com API (version 3 incomplete, relies on version 2).
- Ronald tested end-to-end; published for internal AppSource testing.
4. Technical Challenges:
- RDLC Report: Joselyn fixed negative top property error (-0.00001 inch) in US check report by editing RDLC in Notepad.
- Documentation: Perplexity generated prompt for Cursor to create 10-page user guide for AppSource app in 1 hour.
- BC Issue: Perplexity confirmed unit cost variances in lot-controlled item process as expected BC behavior (FIFO/LIFO/average cost).
5. Cybersecurity and Industry Insights:
- Microsoft Entra Vulnerability (CVE-2025-5241): Actor tokens granted global admin access across tenants via Azure AD Graph API; fixed by Microsoft.
- SonicWall Breach: My Sonic Wall portal breach exposed <5% firewall backup files, likely via brute force/credential stuffing.
- GP Partner Issue: Partner stored passwords/license keys in plain text on customer’s SQL server, refused assistance due to being "too busy."
6. Professional Engagements:
- Attended Aropa Academy webinar on AL code for SQL performance (youtube.com/aroposewebinars).
- Signed up for MVP Summit, March 2026, Redmond; hotel costs $200–$300/night vs. $37/night in El Salvador.
- Reconnected with college friend in cybersecurity, discussed potential El Salvador cybersecurity center.
7. Conferences and Events:
- Summit NA: Oct 20–23, 2025, Orlando; sponsoring BC Bash, Oct 21, 9:00 PM, Cuba Libé (steveendo.link/bc-2025).
- Directions EMEA: Nov 4–6, 2025, Poland.
- Partner in Vibe: Jan 28–30, 2026, South Padre Island, TX (partnerin.io); remote location, 4-hour drive from San Antonio.
- Dynamics Minds: May 25–27, 2026, Porto Rose, Slovenia.
8. Statement of Work Challenges:
- Custom PTE SOW requires foresight; excluded code structure updates, non-functional fixes, saved scope creep on unit cost issue.
- Struggled with SOW for custom PTE due to complex, poorly detailed Excel field mapping.
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