Here you’ll find articles I’ve written on various topics, including Microsoft 365, Microsoft Azure, and related topics for web & cloud developers.
Welcome to the newest podcast, the Microsoft Cloud Show co-hosted by yours truly, dedicated to the Microsoft cloud. I’m a big fan of podcasts and have been listening to a good number across different …
A few months ago I wrote how I prefer using the REST API in SHAREPOINT over using the CSOM. Sure there are some downsides to this (no coverage for workflow or taxonomy, no batching just to name a …
I’ve made changes to work smarter, increase productivity & had conversations with friends on the subject. Find out what I did & what worked best.
Yesterday I pushed two blog posts and an article out on how I keep a local copy of my Orchard CMS development projects and then how I deploy these changes to their production hosts using Azure Web …
alert heading I’ve since updated my update & dev process for my OrchardCMS deployment which I’ve detailed here: Continuos Delivery of OrchardCMS to Azure, Complete with Dev & Test …
I’ve since updated my update & dev process for my OrchardCMS deployment which I’ve detailed here: Continuos Delivery of OrchardCMS to Azure, Complete with Dev & Test Environments …
Earlier this year, in March of 2013 (all posts on the topic), I relaunched my site using the open source CMS engine Orchard CMS. I based my deployment on the 1.6 release which was the most current …
Everyone is talking about SharePoint 2013 these days, but many are still using SharePoint 2010. Are you starting a project on SharePoint 2010 & not sure how to jump in as a SharePoint developer? A …
In the past there has been a lot of confusion around sandboxed solutions within SharePoint 2013 and SharePoint Online. A statement in MSDN uses the deprecated word that throws the usage of them into …
I get a handful of questions on how to correctly deploy Workflow Manager 1.0 (and Service Bus 1.0) from folks for the use with a SharePoint Server 2013 environment quite often. The common things you …
A few months ago I tweeted a brief comment about investing some time in changing the way I was working and introducing a few new techniques to my work life. That tweet spun up a dialog with a handful …
Earlier this week I watched a dialog progress between a few people: which client-side API they prefer in SharePoint 2013. In this post, I share my opinion.
In April I presented a session at the premiere SharePoint conference, SharePoint Evolutions, in London. At this conference I presented two sessions, one on workflow development and one on building …
Looking at the title of this post, you might notice something missing. It’s the classic five questions: What Why Where When How But the title is missing two of them… where & when. Well those …
About a month and half ago I relaunched my blog onto a new web CMS platform moving away from the SubText engine to Orchard (you can see more on the background here). When I relaunched, I got a lot of …
A few weeks ago I blogged how two samples I provided MSDN in August 2012 were recently republished using the latest SharePoint 2013, Workflow Manager and Visual Studio 2012 developer tools. Well today …
In this post I want to show you how you can you can use tasks within your SharePoint 2013 workflows developed with Visual Studio 2012. Frankly that’s pretty simple, and demonstrated well in this …
In the last post I showed you how to create a simple task using the out-of-the-box (OOTB) task content type that ships with SharePoint 2013: Workflow Task (SharePoint 2013). Then we build off this and …
“What’s your take on InfoPath 2013… do you recommend it?” Man I get this question a *ton*. Yesterday I got it again on Twitter and finally decided I needed a place to point …
In August 2012 I published, via the MSDN Office Developer Documentation Team, two workflow samples that showed how to build a workflow using Visual Studio 2012 that called an external web service and …
Over the last two months we’ve seen a LOT of updates and improvements to workflow development for SharePoint 2013. Recently Grace Kochavi from the SharePoint workflow team published a post on …
Ever since the original post when I said I was going to make the changes to my site, the number one question I kept hearing was “why Orchard” as the engine for the new site. Of course the …
A little over a month ago I blogged about how I was planning to re-launch my blog. This post is from the newly launched site! Before I say too much here I want to mention that I will be writing quite …
Over nine years ago I started this blog on an open source engine (.Text v0.94). I was using one of the out-of-the-box skins which served me well for a while. Then Phill Haack picked it up, forked the …
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