16-year blogging journey: author shifts to new platform
I started this site and blogging as a personal journal almost exactly 16 years ago today, in September 2003. Over the last 16 years, I’ve used three different open source engines to implement …
Articles
Here you’ll find articles I’ve written on various topics, including Microsoft 365, Microsoft Azure, and related topics for web & cloud developers.
Leveraging the Webpack Define Plugin in SPFx Projects
Here’s a post that teaches you a technique that you can start leveraging in your SharePoint Framework (SPFx) projects right away! You know those projects where you have certain values you use in …
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JavaScript + SharePoint Framework Summer Camp Calls - July 3 & July 18, 2019!
Microsoft regularly hosts three different community calls under the SharePoint PnP program on various topics. You can learn all about these from the community page in the SharePoint docs at SharePoint …
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SharePoint Framework v1.8.2 (and v1.8.1) - What's in the latest Update(s) of SPFx?
Earlier this week, on Tuesday, May 7, 2019, Microsoft released v1.8.2 of the SharePoint Framework (SPFx). A little over a month ago, I wrote about the v1.8.0 release. Since then we had another minor …
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Mastering the SharePoint Framework - Sprint 16 adds SPFx with Teams, SPA's and Tons of Updates
I’m excited to share this latest update to my course, Mastering the SharePoint Framework for developers. This update, packaged as sprint 16, includes one new chapter and a LOT of updates. When I …
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SharePoint Framework v1.8.0 - What's in this SPFx drop?
On Thursday, March 14, 2019, Microsoft released v1.8.0 of the SharePoint Framework (SPFx). This release is packed with many features that were previously in developer preview to the Generally …
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Leverage Custom Permissions in Microsoft Entra ID Applications
In my last post, Securing an Azure Function App with Microsoft Entra ID - Works with SharePoint Framework!, I showed how you can secure a REST API deployed as an Azure Function App using Microsoft …
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Securing an Azure Function App with Microsoft Entra ID - Works with SharePoint Framework!
I recently published a new chapter in my Mastering the SharePoint Framework on-demand course for developers that included a section that showed how to call a REST API deployed using an Azure Function …
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Beware of Declarative Permissions in SharePoint Framework Projects
In the SharePoint Framework (SPFx) v1.6.0 release, Microsoft introduced a capability that allowed developers to call Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure AD) secured APIs & endpoints. These calls …
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Mastering the SharePoint Framework Sprint 13 Published with over 3hrs of Microsoft Graph & Microsoft Entra ID Lessons!
I’m excited to share this latest update to my course, Mastering the SharePoint Framework for developers. Today’s update, packaged as sprint 13, includes two new chapters and a few …
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How to: Home Security System with SmartThings & ActionTiles
Notice: Not using SmartThings or Action Tiles any longer Since I originally published this article, I’ve switched from using SmartThings to using HomeAssistant & stopped using ActionTiles. …
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DIY Home Security System with Konnected.io & SmartThings
Home security systems usually mean expensive boxes in an obscure place in your house with a bundle of messy sensor wires hooked up to a circuit board, dumb keypads from the 1980’s and other …
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Enable Jest testing of SharePoint Framework projects in one simple step
Over the last two weeks, I have been presenting on the topic of the SharePoint Framework (SPFx) at a pair of SharePoint conferences (the European SharePoint Conference in Copenhagen & SharePoint …
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Testing SPFx Projects Efficiently with Minimal Distractions: Wallaby.js
You know what I don’t like about automated tests? Most of the time, we don’t automate them, we just instrument them. We write our tests and then open a console window to run them …
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Package Manager Inconsistencies with React & tslint + Workarounds after Updating to SPFx 1.7
The latest version of the SharePoint Framework (SPFx) released a few weeks ago, v1.7.0, uncovered a few issues between how the various Node.js package managers work. These issues appear to be rooted …
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SharePoint Framework v1.7.0 - What''s in the latest update of SPFx?
On November 8, 2018 (last Thursday), Microsoft released v1.7.0 of the SharePoint Framework (SPFx). This release is filled with a lot of new things Microsoft has been talking about for a few months. In …
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Don't be alarmed by vulnerabilities after running npm Install
I’ve seen more and more questions since the folks at npm added an automatic scan for vulnerabilities after every npm install. What’s going on? The npm registry runs a security audit on npm …
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Mastering the SharePoint Framework - Course update November 2018 (sprint 12 complete)
This month’s update on my Mastering the SharePoint Framework course features the transition from one sprint to the next. Sprint 12 Complete I published the final pieces of Sprint 12 this week. …
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Mastering the SharePoint Framework - Course Update September 2018 (Sprint-11 complete)
This month’s update on my Mastering the SharePoint Framework course features the transition from one sprint to the next. Sprint 11 Complete Earlier this week, I published the final pieces of …
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HowTo: Angular Elements in SharePoint Framework Projects - Two Projects
In my last post, I talked about using Angular Elements in SharePoint Framework projects. That post showed how to do this using a single SharePoint Framework Project. In this post, I show you a much …
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HowTo: Angular Elements in SharePoint Framework Projects - One Big Project
In my last post, I talked about using Angular Elements in SharePoint Framework projects. When doing this, you have two options on how you will implement this and in this post, I will talk about doing …
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Mastering the SharePoint Framework - Course Update July 2018 (Sprint-10 complete)
In this post, learn what’s new with our flagship course, Mastering the SharePoint Framework, in Sprint 10, and what’s coming in Sprint 11!
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ngOfficeUIFabric for AngularJS v1.6 - Archived & Read Only
Late last year I blogged about the future of ngOfficeUIFabric, a project I kicked off and managed for a few years. This project took the Office UI Fabric Core CSS components and implemented native …
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npm, Yarn and PNPM: Which Package Manager Should You Use for SharePoint Framework Projects?
In the past, I’ve written how I prefer Yarn over npm not just for SharePoint Framework (SPFx) projects, but also for all my Node.js based projects that leverage the npm package registry: …
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SharePoint Framework Generator Updated to v1.5.0: Inspecting the Changes
Yesterday Microsoft released a new version of the SharePoint Framework (SPFx) generator to version 1.5. I took some time picking apart the update and in this post, I will show you what these changes …
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