April 2008

WinDays 2008: Aftermath

by Vjekoslav Babic on April 29, 2008

WinDays 2008 are over. Somehow, this conference has become a milestone, in Croatian ICT community, in Microsoft community, even in my life. I met a friend there, one of those I only meet there, and realized just how quickly the year turned. Obviously, I contemplated too much, and partied too little, something to really get worried about.

Anyway, the presentations I delivered made me think about the future of this blog. It started pretty randomly, as a place where I simply dumped anything that crossed my mind, so you had all sorts of content, from programming, to development, to functionality, to theory. When I look at my blog to-do list, there is even more chaos to it, with topics ranging from SQL optimization all the way to business process reengineering. I realized I need more focus. [click to continue reading…]

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Microsoft WinDays 2008

by Vjekoslav Babic on April 18, 2008

No, it is not a new piece of software; although I admit that to anyone not knowing exactly what it is it might just seem so. Microsoft WinDays is the largest and most important business and technology conference in Croatia (and the region), traditionally organized in Opatija in the last week of April. This year it is taking place from April 22 to 25, with a pre-conference day on April 21. Last year it gathered over 1,900 attendees from Croatia and neighboring countries, and this year it is expected to even surpass this number. During the conference the attendees will have an opportunity to visit 160+ presentations covering 28 different topics, 9 pre-conference seminars, plus enjoy themselves and mingle about the evening parties, or simply enjoy the mild weather, sea and fresh air.

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Inventory method UFO :-)

by Vjekoslav Babic on April 17, 2008

Sorry for this series of totally irrelevant posts, by now you must be thinking that I am either out of ideas, or totally uninterested about the future of this blog. Neither is true, I am actually spending practically all of my time preparing for ten hours of content I have to deliver at a conference next week, and about which I hope I will post a blog in its own right.

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Flying Dynamics

by Vjekoslav Babic on April 17, 2008

Do you want to fly Dynamics? A friend of mine has just done so, and he took a handful of pictures as well. It seems that Adria Airways, a (or the, I am not really sure) Slovenian airline, has entered into some kind of deal with Microsoft, and are now promoting Microsoft Dynamics brand on their aircraft. My friend, also a Dynamics consultant, couldn’t resist taking a few pictures, and with his permission, I give you a preview of what you can expect if you fly into, or out of Slovenia these days.

To the best of my knowledge, Adria Airways has recently implemented Microsoft Dynamics NAV, and seems to have entered the full operation phase with it. What kind of message does it send? I can think of this one: “With Microsoft Dynamics, sky is the limit!”

You can find the pictures here:

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Goodspeed, Adria Airways!

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A new flavor to my feed

by Vjekoslav Babic on April 17, 2008

I have a humble request to all of you subscribing to my blog’s feed. I’ve just configured a Feedburner feed for this blog, which will allow me track the blog statistics in a better way, and through this understand the needs of my blog readers better. In the end, I hope it will result in this blog being a better place for all of you.

So, would you care to configure your readers to read this blog’s feed from http://feeds.feedburner.com/NavigateIntoSuccess?format=xml instead of current default WordPress.com feed? I would highly appreaciate it.

I’ve also put a feedburner subscription link to the sidebar, so you may also subscribe from there.

Thanks!

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Peugeot – Engineered to be enjoyed (or A simple way a car dealership can profit from an ERP system?)

April 16, 2008

About six months ago, when I was buying a car, a friend of mine, in a typical The Good, the Bad and the Ugly fashion, told me that there were two kinds of cars: good cars, and French cars. I bought a French car. I bought a Peugeot 407 SW (Peugeot says their cars are engineered to be enjoyed) and although I could [...]

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Not-so-elementary costing: The Change

April 11, 2008

They say the only constant is change. I’d say that the only other constant is error. We humans tend to err. Give a repeatable task to a human, and they’ll mess it up every once in a while. Some call it the human factor. One of the many repeatable tasks in Microsoft Dynamics NAV is setting [...]

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Purchasing Services: Inventory Value Zero

April 6, 2008

I’ve stumbled recently upon a support request, where a partner asked if there was a possibility to register purchases of services in Microsoft Dynamics NAV. When it comes to selling services, such as consulting, or repairs, NAV is your true friend, because you can use Resources to register sales against them. However, purchase documents don’t offer [...]

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Output journal confusion

April 4, 2008

A few days ago, I’ve got a question from a customer, about an alleged bug in Microsoft Dynamics NAV. According to online help, when you are posting output in manufacturing module, the last line of the type Output in the journal will actually adjust the inventory level. However, what is not explained is how the [...]

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Scrap doesn't just happen

April 2, 2008

In reality, if you need 1,000 of whatever product, the manufacturing process is rarely going to yield exactly 1,000 of it, even if you feed into the first operation the exact quantities of raw materials system calculated as gross requirements. The process may produce 980 or 1,020, but is hardly ever going to be exactly 1,000. If you didn’t take [...]

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Scrap the crap

April 1, 2008

Scrap happens. So does sh*t. In my last blog post about scrap I gave a crappy explanation of how forward calculation of fixed scrap works. So instead of disgracing myself by leaving the incorrect explanation there, I’ve just corrected it, and posted this lame excuse here. Anyone who is interested in how it really works, please accept my [...]

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