Here you’ll find articles I’ve written on various topics, including Microsoft 365, Microsoft Azure, and related topics for web & cloud developers.
Back in March 2014 I published three posts that showed how you can use the Breeze JavaScript library to make your life as a developer so much easier when creating client-side solutions that leverage …
This is an excerpt of a post on the Kerrb Blog: To PaaS or to IaaS, THAT is the Question! My turn to weigh in on this debate! Before I dive in, let me explain briefly what this is all about. When …
One of the capabilities Microsoft introduced for SharePoint 2013 workflows is the ability to publish a custom event into a running workflow instances.
Earlier this week the Kerrb engine shut down it’s first Microsoft Azure virtual machine (VM)! We’ve been hard at work on the internal scheduling and automation engine as that’s the …
File this one away in the “the negative side of building on a service / platform” category. Here’s the deal… All the sudden I started getting comments from subscribers of my Pluralsight course …
I’ve seen an issue pop up a few times over the last few months related to workflow development in SharePoint 2013 that has been quite annoying. After deciding enough is enough, I’m going to figure …
Time they are a changing. For some, these changes have already taken place. For others, they are pushing back and sticking with their existing development plans. Microsoft is certainly pushing a …
SharePoint includes a little notification system where you can implement your own custom notifications as transient messages, or those that will go away after a short period. You’re used to …
Earlier today, Microsoft announced their plans to discontinue the preview program for autohosted SharePoint apps, one of the two type of cloud app model approaches to SharePoint development. This …
Earlier in March I did a three-part series of posts on using the popular Breeze JavaScript library with the SharePoint 2013 REST API. Here’s a list of all the posts in this series: Part 1: …
With great pleasure I’m thrilled to announce my latest Pluralsight course is finally live: Building SharePoint Apps as Single Page Apps with AngularJS. It took a bit longer to get this one …
So, you’ve decided you want to build a single page app (SPA) as a SharePoint-Hosted App. One question will have to address is how you want to implement the user experience of your app. There are …
While I’m hard at work on my SaaS startup, Kerrb, we thought we’d put together a little getting started guide for folks who want to look at using virtual machines (VM) in Azure for their …
In this post I want to explain how you can use it. This breaks down into a few different tasks: set up Breeeze, create an entity model & using it!
This post is part of a series I’ve written on using the popular Breeze JavaScript library with the SharePoint REST API. The other posts in this series can be found here: Simplify SharePoint …
This post is part of a series I’ve written on using the popular Breeze JavaScript library with the SharePoint REST API. The other posts in this series can be found here: Simplify SharePoint …
Earlier today, at the SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas, Microsoft talked about the future of not just InfoPath but also with the entire electronics forms story from Microsoft. Earlier this year, …
In my last installment of my 3-part SharePoint 2013 Workflow series of courses on Pluralsight, today Pluralsight published a course dedicated on creating workflows that talk to various types of web …
If you’ve been watching the social space around SharePoint or Office 365 lately, you may have noticed that Office 365 has been surfacing a few regression issues that are breaking people’s client-side …
Following up on a Pluralsight course I published in June 2013, SharePoint 2013 Workflow - Fundamentals, I’ve published a sequel called SharePoint 2013 - Workflow Advanced Topics. This course is …
A few months ago Kirk Evans of Microsoft published two blog posts explaining the SharePoint tokens and then followed it up with a custom Fiddler extension he wrote that you can use to extract, decode …
Two articles I contributed to MSDN have recently been published. They are related to SharePoint 2013 workflow: MSDN: Debugging SharePoint Server 2013 workflows: Microsoft has taken a different …
Ran into a nasty little error this afternoon and after stumbling around finding very little in the way of answers in forums or using Bing and Google, when I stumbled across the resolution that seems …
When SharePoint 2013 was released, one of the biggest additions was the mostly full adoption and implementation of the OData [REST] API. I’ve written in the past how I prefer the OData API over …
The more I dive into the Orchard CMS platform the more I really love what they’ve built! Earlier this year I redeployed my site as an Orchard CMS site. Since then I have deployed a few more sites for …