Here you’ll find articles I’ve written on various topics, including Microsoft 365, Microsoft Azure, and related topics for web & cloud developers.
Recently I picked up one of new Raspberry Pi 2 Model B microcontrollers. Most people who play with these seem to use Python or Java for coding… but me, I’d much rather use JavaScript. For …
If you’re a developer for Office 365, SharePoint Online, SharePoint 2013 or Office Apps, you’ve no doubt run into the following - How do I make this look like Office / Office 365 / …
The Office 365 APIs contain multiple endpoints such as contacts, calendar, mail, files and there’s even a way to talk to the SharePoint REST API. Microsoft has committed to working on future APIs for …
For more information about the course, you can checkout the page on my site: Office 365 APIs - Overview, Authentication and the Discovery Service This is the first in a series of courses I am …
[Updated February 25, 2015 @11a ET] - Looks like this was a bit of a regression that included more stuff than we were supposed to see, but hints are future updates. See this twitter convo for details. …
In the next week or my latest Pluralsight course will be published for all Pluralsight subscribers to watch. This is the first of multiple courses you’ll see me publish over the coming months …
I’m a big fan of applying the single page application (SPA) to SharePoint applications as well as using just plan old client-side solutions. These solutions are written entirely in JavaScript …
In my last post I explained briefly how batching works with a REST API and showed you a sample application with the Fiddler trace of how batching can help speed up your application. In this post I …
In SharePoint we have two ways to interact with our data from off the server: the client-side object model (CSOM) and the REST API. Everyone has their preference and their reasons why they prefer one …
Hear people talk about single tenant or multi-tenant when they refer to Microsoft Entra ID and get a bit confused? Let me see if I can help clear it up conceptually and then dive into it a little …
So you grab an Office 365 API related project from someone and do the typical NuGet package restore to get all the stuff you need to run the project… but you get hit with this error: An error …
This post is part of a few other posts I’ve published this week about the authentication part of working with the Office 365 APIs. Specifically, the process of authenticating and obtaining an access …
In my last post, Microsoft Entra ID & ASP.NET MVC - Understanding ADAL & OWIN, I talked a little about how the Microsoft Entra ID Authentication Library (aka: ADAL) relates to the Open Web …
Before you even get started coding against the Office 365 APIs, you need to get an OAuth2 access token that is trusted by Office 365. Microsoft has set up Microsoft Entra ID as the trust and token …
This post is one of three posts in a short series. The first post, Microsoft Entra ID & Office 365 APIs - Creating an Microsoft Entra ID App with a Wizard & Manually is a brief overview. The …
This post is one of three posts in a short series. The first post, Microsoft Entra ID & Office 365 APIs - Creating an Microsoft Entra ID App with a Wizard & Manually is a brief overview. The …
… and I’m sharing to hopefully help you too! This week I’m publishing a handful of blog posts that deal with Microsoft Entra ID and authentication. Recently I did a lot of work around the …
If you aren’t part of the solution, you’re part of the problem. In this article I’m going to lay out my idea for how Microsoft can re-implement and re-launch the cloud app model option of …
Office on iPad? That wasn’t too much of a stretch but an impressive announcement. 20% of the virtual machines in Microsoft Azure IaaS run Linux? That’s a surprising stat, but more …
Last week I was at the MVP Summit and sat down with some friends to interview them about what it’s like being a developer and IT professional in this growing cloud world. We published the …
Since the release of SharePoint 2013 & once Office 365 was refreshed, we’ve been able to create workflows in SharePoint Apps. However this has been limited to the workflows living exclusively …
Hear that? I think someone just fired the first shot in a new battle about to ensue in the front-end space theatre… Earlier today I noticed HackerNews posted a link to the AtScript Primer, a …
Leading up to the SPTechCon conference in Boston, MA, I wrote how I planned to forgo PowerPoint in my presentations and instead, rely completely on Github: Using GitHub for Developer & Technical …
If you came here from one of my presentations, scroll down a bit to the headings to get what you came for. As a developer at heart, like so many others, I gravitate towards code solutions and related …
Recently Microsoft published a new sample project that I worked on with Scot Hillier on the OfficeDev Github account named the Research Project Code Sample. The sample scenario is a Project Research …