When you import Excel or CSV (Comma Seperated Value) files in Power BI using the standard buttons, you end up with a large mess of code! Power BI creates a parameter, a sample file and an extra query…for every import!
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Power Query Ultimate Date Table for Power BI
You need a date table. It needs to give you day/week/month/quarter/half year visibility, and be able to adapt to whenever your fiscal year starts.
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Pizza on a BBQ (or oven)
How do you make pizza on a BBQ? You just make pizza on a BBQ! All you need is a BBQ and a metal plate to lay the pizza on. Item list:
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BBQ Cinnamon Pineapple Recipe
Grilled pineapple dusted with cinnamon is a super easy & delicious desert, which will light up any BBQ!
Firecracker salmon is super easy to make and is always a hit at any gathering. It can be served however you like – in its tin foil wrapper or even on a pizza!
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Walnut Brownies Recipe
This recipe for walnut brownies was first published in the “Lil’ Chefs” calendar by Unicef.
It’s time for a CSS3 @font-face browser support table. One that documents specifically how browsers act when either the whole font family is specified (regular, italic, bold, bold-italic & small-caps) or only the regular version of the font is specified. The test-case that this based on uses the ideal, easiest (laziest) implementation and can be found on its own page here.
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Best blogs of 2009
Hi Internet! Happy New Year! Here’s a list of the best weblogs on the internet in 2009:
Chris Coyier over at css-tricks.com had a great example of a css conundrum: how to centre, both vertically and horizontally, multiple lines of text. He some good code (using table-cell) but his code for IE relied on some (script)expressions which can have the unfortunate habbit of slowing down a page.
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CSS3 Fonts: The ideal implementation
This series of articles is about the challenges that arise when using @font-face. Font licensing is one (that many others have written about) and the file-size of included font-files is another, but this article is about browser implementation eccentricities. I’ll start off by showing the ideal @font-face implementation in this article, before moving on to showing current browser deficiencies and the implementation I settled on for including a full font-family which works in the here and now.
