[See the first part of my review here .] I guess Arend-Jan and I are going to play some kind of ping-pong over this. I should have been finished way before his post this afternoon! Continued reading last Sunday I did finish the book last Monday already. Nevertheless I am happy that Arend-Jan stepped in today as I fully agree with his first observation on Alex' book: ... this book intends [to] give the user an insight of the world developers are in .. [which] makes the book unique. Indeed…

Being Dutch getting the opportunity to get a free copy, I willingly volunteered to Albert Augustine's call for reviewers on LinkedIn . And with me - note mostly none Dutch! - 20+ also did. That's one. Need I have more reasons? Well actually, yes. There are many books I would like to read; or should I say: of which I would like to get to learn the content; i.e. the message. But then the challenge of setting priorities and finding time to do it comes around. Then getting a free copy and…

Only this week I found out that we lost some standard behavior of the MESSAGE function, on the road to NAV's new 3-tier architecture. Anybody noticed? CONFIRM vs. MESSAGE Most probably you know perfectly well that a CONFIRM and MESSAGE are functionally not quite the same. One has a Yes and a No button, where the other has the single OK button. But they also have - let us call it - a technical difference. One of main importance. During my NAV development courses I use the following multiple choice…

So how should I introduce this guy to you? I had never heard of Gary untill almost 2 years ago when the PRS initiative introduced itself on the NAV Techdays in Antwerp. The small and clear voiced guy next two those two lowlands "Giants", Eric and Mark . Had never come across any posts, at least that I could recall. And could not find a blog written by Gary, which felt like something missing as it was really worthwhile hearing him talk and give voice to his ideas; expressing his insights that clearly…

Some years ago I wrote a series on validating data in NAV. The second post in this row, called Validating Data #2: Using VALIDATE , addressed the use of the AL function VALIDATE. From recent experience I would like to update some part of this post as this seems missing in any documentation on VALIDATE, including the Developer and IT Pro Help for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 . For reading ease I'll rephrase some parts. Let's start with the syntax: Record.VALIDATE(Field [, NewValue]) Where…