Milwaukee Brew City PUG – Feb 2020

The Milwaukee Brew City PUG for February had tons of rich demo content. Steve Campbell delivered quite a session for an hour and a half. We were able to record this session and are happy to announce all the videos are now up on YouTube.

See all the Tutorials for February Pug

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Aug 13, 2026

Fabric as a Backend – Ep.554

Mike has been building apps on Fabric as a backend since January, and he's coining it FAB. The case isn't that you already own Fabric — it's that the workspace identity, git integration, and SQL database remove the wiring you'd otherwise do by hand in Azure.

Aug 11, 2026

Crawl, Walk, Run with AI in PBI – Ep.553

Meagan Longoria's five-stage maturity model for agentic Power BI development gives Mike and Tommy a framework to argue with. They mostly agree — except on the crawl stage, where Mike thinks starting with an MCP server beats starting with a chatbot.

Aug 6, 2026

Power BI Desktop Bridge – Ep.552

Desktop Bridge gives agents a local server to drive Power BI Desktop — reload files, check report state, and take screenshots so the agent can verify its own work. Mike and Tommy agree on the prerequisite: don't use it without skills.