Here you’ll find articles I’ve written on various topics, including Microsoft 365, Microsoft Azure, and related topics for web & cloud developers.
When building Office Add-ins developers are provided first-rate tooling with Visual Studio. Developers can easily create Office Add-ins for Outlook, Excel, Word and other Office applications by simply …
I’m a web developer, not a SharePoint developer… So, I have been sitting on this for a while. I get that there are plenty of people who will not agree with my opinions I put forth here …
In my last post I showed how I set up Visual Studio Code to support debugging a Yeoman generator to easily stub out a Node.js web server locally that can serve HTTPS requests: generator-nodehttps. In …
Recently I was working on a Yeoman generator to easily stub out a Node.js web server locally that can serve HTTPS requests: generator-nodehttps. I built this using Visual Studio Code and wanted to set …
This post is part of a series of pieces on Node.js Development for .NET Developers. The other posts in this series can be found here: Node.js Development for .NET Developers In my previous post I …
This post is part of a series of pieces on Node.js Development for .NET Developers. The other posts in this series can be found here: Node.js Development for .NET Developers In my previous posts I …
Have you heard about this thing called Node.js. They actually got JavaScript to run on the server? Are you kidding me!? Nope… and there are some very good reasons why you should consider it for …
In this article, I’m sharing thoughts on owning a Tesla Model S, discovering new information two months post-purchase.
This post is part of a series of pieces on Node.js Development for .NET Developers. The other posts in this series can be found here: Node.js Development for .NET Developers So you’re interested in …
This post is part of a series of pieces on Node.js Development for .NET Developers. The other posts in this series can be found here: Node.js Development for .NET Developers Over the last few months …
In this post I want to talk about how I do virtually all of my JavaScript development - spoiler alert… I don’t write JavaScript… I write TypeScript and compile it down to …
Microsoft gave away Raspberry Pi 2’s at the Ignite conference, leaving some unsure what to do with them. Resources are available for beginners
I’ve heard it before… so have you. You see someone stand on stage and say how they want you to think about something as a platform. It’s the cool thing to say these days as everyone wants to be a …
Close friends of mine know there’s a podcast that I’ve become a huge fan of over the last two years. It’s called Startups for the Rest of Us by Rob Walling & Mike Taber… …
Last week at the Microsoft Build conference & this week at Microsoft’s Ignite conference, I presented short express talks / theater sessions on using Node.js to run a web application that …
Ever since Angular 2.0 was announced at ng-Europe in October 2014, there’s been quite a bit of fud around it with many people being frustrated and fretting about having to completely rewrite …
This course, Office 365 APIs: Contacts, is the second in a series of courses I am publishing to the Pluralsight catalog on the the Microsoft Office 365 APIs.
You’re a developer, you know that periodic spring cleanings are good. Laptops slow down over time from all the cruft you acquire on your main drive. No matter how hard you try, your machine is …
Last year about this time I blogged about using Breeze with SharePoint… you can go back and read those three posts that explain the benefits to using Breeze with SharePoint. What does Breeze do …
The way Chrome handles certs recently changed and this process doesn’t work as well as it used to. See this post for an updated process: Updated: Creating and Trusting Self-Signed Certs on …
In a previous post I talked about the Different OAuth2 Flows Supported in Microsoft Entra ID for Office 365 APIs. That post outlined three different authentication flows. There’s the Authorization …
In mid February Microsoft announced support of the OAuth2 implicit flow by way of a new library called ADAL JS. This is very cool as it allows us to build client-side solutions that can take advantage …
Lately you might you might notice I’ve been on a bit of a kick with Microsoft Entra ID in some recent blog posts. In this post I want to talk about something called OpenID Connect, a technology …
Lately you might you might notice I’ve been on a bit of a kick with Microsoft Entra ID in some recent blog posts. In this post I want to talk about some of the different OAuth2 authentication …
Ah, the authentication dance. To be clear this isn’t really about Office 365 or the Office 365 APIs, but they rely on Microsoft Entra ID for authentication. With that being said, I find the …