Pineapple

 I started today a new chapter in my professional name: Enterprise Architect at Pineapple.

Actually, they also started a new chapter today, rebranding from previously known Capital Lending Centre.

I'm very exited for this new position responsible for many IT & development aspects, at the core of a tech focused young company. Go Pineapple!

Salesforce Ideas

Salesforce has that nice feature to allow users suggest and vote on new ideas to be implemented. There are many times when the feature you are looking for is not there and if you'd contact Salesforce support they just suggest to vote that specific idea, which very likely was already proposed.

But this is also a two edged sword because also allow you to see what is actually missing from Salesforce and highly requested by their customers: IdeaExchange sorted by popular items.

Surprised to see proposals made more than 10 years ago and voted or commented by thousands? Don't be. this is the reverse of the coin which many times the manuals are just forgetting to mention.

I voted some, but not too many, as I don't think that the sheer number of votes matter too much.

Some more free services available with an Azure free account

 Microsoft added some more services for their Azure free account:

• Azure Database for PostgreSQL
• Azure Database for MySQL
• Azure Key Vault
• Azure Logic Apps

Nice. Some more reasons to start trying Azure for free.

Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert

 I passed yesterday AZ-303 exam so now I call myself 

Yay!

Next step: data engineer associate, coming soon.

AZ-304 certification

I passed yesterday Microsoft's AZ-304 certification, one step towards Azure Solutions Architect Expert.

I prepared pretty well for this exam so I didn't find it too difficult. I used Pluralsight series for this exam, Sybex's Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies and Design (Study Guide), plus a few other materials including quite a lot MS documentation (read well Overview or FAQ pages), but I found interesting Mark Grimes' YouTube videos (1, 2, ...).

Next obvious step is AZ-303 scheduled in a few days. Sure is easier to prepare for both at the same time.

The only negative was waiting an hour on VUE online app to be verified before starting the exam. They talk about 15 minutes but in my case was a full hour.

PMI-ACP renewal PDUs

 Also today I've just finished the last online course to maintain my PMI-ACP certification, due for renewal in Feb 2021. For this cycle of 3 years I had to do 30 PDUs to maintain it.

For last few days I was watching some videos, approved by PMI, to earn those PDUs. As you may know, the rule of thumb is 1 PDU for 1 hour of conference or virtual event, so you can do the math. Quite a lot of information to review all theory tested by ACP exam, and even more.

Salesforce Sharing and Visibility Designer certification

Two days ago I got my 3rd Salesforce certification, Sharing and Visibility Designer:

This is the 1st one for architect level, one more to go for Salesforce solution architect. Yay!