Mark Steinberg

NASA writes mission-critical flight software in C. And the rules are absolutely INSANE. > No recursion. Ever. > Every loop must have a provable upper bound. > No dynamic memory allocation after initialization. > Max ~60 lines per function. > Minimum 2 assertions per function. > Every return value must be checked. > Zero compiler warnings allowed. > Daily static analysis. Zero warnings there too. > No function pointers. > Restricted pointer dereferencing. This is how they write code at NASA / JPL for mission-critical systems.

On way to #sqlbits, looks like great weather for it. Well as long as the sessions are outside 😎

On way to #sqlbits, looks like great weather for it. Well as long as the sessions are outside 😎

o3 and o4-mini are super good at coding, so we are releasing a new product, Codex CLI, to make them easier to use. this is a coding agent that runs on your computer. it is fully open source and available today; we expect it to rapidly improve.

@fusionet24 Happy birthday 🎂

The browser extension I showed during my demo yesterday at @SQLBits 👇 Huge props to @VahidDoustiM for developing this! #sqlbits

No Newcastle #PowerBI UG this month, but we're back with a bang next year! Wishing you all a great Christmas, from myself, @SQLGeordie, @StopAtMark, and @datalakin See you all in the new year! meetup.com/newcastle-pug/

Looks like even Lego knows you need mainframes for your #data strategy

Just over 2 weeks until next #Newcastle #PowerBI meetup. meetup.com/newcastle-pug/…

Next up, Fabric for Admins! @BenniDeJagere taking us through everything to keep in mind when administering Power BI with Fabric

We’re live at @PowerBINewc, first up is @cwebb_bi giving us an exclusive on all things “Fabric for the Power BI user”

September's @PowerBINewc is going to be a bit special, with 2 HUGE names in the #PowerBI community. We may need a bigger venue to fit everyone in! Watch this space, or better still, come along tomorrow evening and all will be revealed. A few spaces left. meetup.com/newcastle-pug/…

Visual overview of Microsoft Fabric announcements that relate to Power BI -- It's a lot, but there's so many exciting features. The PDF and full-size image can be downloaded from here 👇: data-goblins.com/power-bi/fabri…

Newcastle PowerBI Meetup tomorrow and now with a #fabric e2e demo session, fresh on the back of its announcement at #MSBuild. Its not too late to sign up

If you watched any of the #MSbuild2023 sessions and are keen to know more about Microsoft Fabric but don't know where to start, @MicrosoftLearn has your back with 'Get Started with Microsoft Fabric'. Take a look here learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/training…

Next week we're back at The Catalyst for another @PowerBINewc 👥 We will be talking all things Power BI APIs, and we'll also be chatting about the exciting announcements at #msbuild next week! meetup.com/newcastle-pug/…