Here you’ll find articles I’ve written on various topics, including Microsoft 365, Microsoft Azure, and related topics for web & cloud developers.
Many if not most traditional SharePoint developers are new to the dev stack and build tool chain Microsoft selected for SharePoint Framework development. This style of development leverages popular …
Did you know the SharePoint team at Microsoft updated the Yeoman generator, @microsoft/generator-sharepoint, twice in the last month? Yeah… I didn’t either until yesterday. The final …
Earlier today I participated in a panel webinar discussion hosted by Emgage on “The Future of Office 365 and SharePoint”. The panel consisted of myself, Heather Newman & Nick Brattoli. …
Many (if not most) traditional SharePoint developers are new to the dev stack and build tool chain Microsoft selected for SharePoint Framework (SPFx) development. This style of development leverages …
In early February 2017, I published a free resource for developers looking to get into the SharePoint Framework (SPFx. That resource, a FREE 10-day email-based course on the development and build …
Yesterday I was lucky enough to join THE Waldek Mastycarz in a webinar hosted by Rencore, the guys behind SPCAF! Did you miss the webinar? You can watch a recording of it from their site here: Rencore …
Earlier this week I presented a session at the Atlanta SharePoint User Group on Building Client Side Web Parts with the SharePoint Framework. I had my session planned well in advance, out but wanted …
Yesterday Microsoft announced that the SharePoint Framework has reached the Generally Available milestone. That means we’re at v1! The development tools have been updated to v1 and the v1 bits …
Last week I was in New Orleans presenting at the Nintex InspireX conference on building apps using the microservice approach with containers and Docker. During that week I sat down with Jeremy Thake …
If you are a SharePoint developer doing any work in SharePoint Online and you have held out on taking a look at the SharePoint Framework, now is a good time to start taking a look. We are currently at …
Are you a traditional SharePoint developer used to working in Visual Studio on Windows building solutions or add-ins? On May 4th, 2016 at the Future of SharePoint event, Microsoft announced the new …
First, thank you to everyone who attended my webinar earlier today on an Introducing the SharePoint Framework webinar hosted by Lightning Tools. Big thanks to LightningTools for hosting the …
In early October 2017 I made one change to this set up related to OTA channels. I got rid of the HDHomeRun Connect tuner & using Plex to watch OTA channels. Instead, I’m now using a TabloTV …
Earlier this week I had the awesome opportunity to sit down and talk to co-hosts Richard diZerega and Andrew Coates of the Office 365 Developer Podcast in an interview they published yesterday: …
About a week ago, Troy Hunt published a blog post 10 Ways for a Conference to Upset Their Speakers. He penned the post after a interesting Twitter storm flared up from a simple tweet he pushed out a …
Over a decade ago I left the corporate world to join another company and start teaching developers about SharePoint. A year after that I left the world of full-time employment to be a contract …
A common requirement that we have to deal with in our custom applications is to have some sort of an API. One reason is to allow others to talk to our application, but another option is for parts of …
Speed up your JavaScript testing in VSCode with Wallaby.js. Wallaby.js automatically runs your tests and see the results without leaving your code files!
The Visual Studio Code (VSCode) website explains how to configure the editor to debug Node.js applications as well as how to debug applications that are written in TypeScript and transpiled to …
In this post, I explain how I set up my Node.js projects, written in TypeScript. I’ll share how I build to different folders.
Last week the Office UI Fabric team shared some significant changes to the Office UI Fabric project. Learn about the changes in this post.
In mid-June 2016 I learned that my naive attitude of “it won’t happen to me” around identity theft was stupid as I became yet another statistic. I thought being careful with your …
This week I’m presenting a session at the 2016 Boston installment of SPTechCon. At this show I’m doing two presentations, one of which shows how to build an Office Add-in for Outlook using …
Over the last few years, I’m sure you’ve heard of Docker at some point. What is this? In this post, I aim to give you the 411, the 101, the fundamentals (or fun-for-mentals as I like to …
I recently wrote how pull requests are managed for the ngOfficeUIFabric project as well as how we automate our CD process. In this post, see it in action!