Best practices are aspirational goals for everyone to strive for. But that list is boring – what if you want to aspire for greatness in…a different way? Recently I started such a list and the F&O Twitter community turned it into gold.

Worst Development Practices

@jorisdg You’ve taught me a lot of things. 1️⃣ Always compile Packages on a dev box. 2️⃣ Overlayering is rad. 3️⃣… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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Joel Leichty (@joelleichty) July 23, 2020

@jorisdg @joelleichty He forgot... 6. always deploy from Visual Studio

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Malcolm Burtt (@MalcolmBurtt) July 23, 2020

@MalcolmBurtt @jorisdg 7. Testing is for developers who don’t believe in themselves.

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Joel Leichty (@joelleichty) July 23, 2020

@jorisdg @joelleichty @MalcolmBurtt 8: Use macros when you spot similar code and queries

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Kenny Saelen (@kennysaelen) July 24, 2020

@kennysaelen @jorisdg @joelleichty @MalcolmBurtt 9. Stay on platform update 12 and laugh at error messages stating lack of support.

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Lane Swenka (@LaneSwenka) July 24, 2020

@LaneSwenka @kennysaelen @jorisdg @joelleichty 10. Wait until Microsoft fix all their Best Practice errors before y… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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Malcolm Burtt (@MalcolmBurtt) July 24, 2020

@MalcolmBurtt @LaneSwenka @kennysaelen @jorisdg @joelleichty 11. No need for performance testing, as Microsoft hav… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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Kurt Hatlevik (@kurthatlevik) July 24, 2020

@kurthatlevik @MalcolmBurtt @LaneSwenka @kennysaelen @joelleichty 12. Use your build VM for development, testing an… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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Joris de Gruyter (@jorisdg) July 24, 2020

@jorisdg @kurthatlevik @MalcolmBurtt @LaneSwenka @joelleichty 13: Copy sample scripts and ignore every disclaimer t… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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Kenny Saelen (@kennysaelen) July 24, 2020

@kennysaelen @jorisdg @kurthatlevik @MalcolmBurtt @LaneSwenka @joelleichty 14. Access and use private class members… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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Paul Heisterkamp (@braul) July 24, 2020

@braul @kennysaelen @jorisdg @kurthatlevik @MalcolmBurtt @LaneSwenka @joelleichty 15. Use the Connection class to do tsql updates in prod

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  (@D365Stuff) July 24, 2020

@D365Stuff @braul @kennysaelen @jorisdg @kurthatlevik @MalcolmBurtt @LaneSwenka @joelleichty 16. Replicate internal… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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Manel Querol (@manelquerol) July 24, 2020

@manelquerol @braul @kennysaelen @jorisdg @kurthatlevik @MalcolmBurtt @LaneSwenka @joelleichty 17. Copy and paste R… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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  (@D365Stuff) July 24, 2020

@D365Stuff @manelquerol @braul @kennysaelen @jorisdg @kurthatlevik @MalcolmBurtt @LaneSwenka @joelleichty 18. Put s… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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Denis Trunin (@TruninDenis) July 26, 2020

If you didn’t find your work on this list, the message for you from the wise #xppgroupies sage is:

@joelleichty Clearly I have or you wouldn’t be able to make these jokes!! https://t.co/4IFJNsk8lc

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Joris de Gruyter (@jorisdg) July 23, 2020