Email courses
I love using email courses to deliver simple topics, dripped out anywhere from a few days to upwards of 10 days! Here you'll learn about the FREE email courses I've written and published under my company, Voitanos.
On-demand video courses
On-demand video courses are my preferred way to teach. Here you'll learn about the courses I've authored & publish under my company, Voitanos.
Prior to launching Voitanos, I published my video courses through Pluralsight. You can find those courses listed here as well.
All publications & learning resources
From time to time, I create learning resources for clients, including Microsoft. Here you'll learn about all these resources.
This includes articles, books, code samples, tutorials, and Microsoft Learning modules.
Here you'll find blog posts & articles I've written. All articles are written by me (no guest posts).
In my last post, Securing an Azure Function App with Azure AD - Works with SharePoint Framework!, I showed how you can secure a REST API deployed as an Azure Function App using Azure Active Directory (AzureAD). This comes in quite handy when you want to secure some custom server-side business logic …
In this post, I’ll explain how you can validate OAuth tokens generated by Azure Active Directory (AD) in your custom apps.
I recently published a new chapter in my Mastering the SharePoint Framework on-demand course for developers that included a section that showed how to call a REST API deployed using an Azure Function App and secured with Azure AD from the SharePoint Framework. When I was working on this chapter, it …
I recommend people avoid this option for granting their SPO tenant permissions to endpoints and services secured with Azure AD.
I’m excited to share this latest update to my course, Mastering the SharePoint Framework for developers. Today’s update, packaged as sprint 13, includes two new chapters and a few updates… and it’s a huge release… the biggest yet adding over 3 hours of new content! …
I recently replaced my traditional home security system with a more modern setup. The new setup needed a keypad replacement, so I used Kindle Fire tablets!
Home security systems usually mean expensive boxes in an obscure place in your house with a bundle of messy sensor wires hooked up to a circuit board, dumb keypads from the 1980’s and other uninspiring tech. You know, like what I had in my house? Some monitoring companies have come up with …
Setting up projects to use Jest, esp to test the rendering of your @reactjs #SPFx projects & use the popular tool Enzyme by @Airbnb for testing rendering, isn’t a trivial task, until now!
You know what I don’t like about automated tests? Most of the time, we don’t automate them, we just instrument them. We write our tests and then open a console window to run them periodically. Maybe we set up a watcher to automatically rerun them when either a test or the code file …
In this post, I explain a pair of workarounds to address issues uncovered with tslint since the SharePoint Framework (SPFx) v1.7 release.
On November 8, 2018 (last Thursday), Microsoft released v1.7.0 of the SharePoint Framework (SPFx). This release is filled with a lot of new things Microsoft has been talking about for a few months. In this post, I’ll summarize some of what you can find, but also share some disappointments I …
I’ve seen more and more questions since the folks at NPM added an automatic scan for vulnerabilities after every NPM install. What’s going on? The NPM registry runs a security audit on NPM packages. With the release of NPM v6, this command is run automatically when you execute an npm …
This month’s update on my Mastering the SharePoint Framework course features the transition from one sprint to the next. Sprint 12 Complete I published the final pieces of Sprint 12 this week. This includes a new chapter in the Ultimate Bundle, new lessons in two Fundamentals Bundle …
We decided to try selling our car in a private party sale rather than a trade-in as you can get much more selling it than you can with a trade in. This was the first time I’ve done a private party sale, and it’s not sold yet, but one thing I’ve learned is how this process brings …
This month’s update on my Mastering the SharePoint Framework course features the transition from one sprint to the next. Sprint 11 Complete Earlier this week, I published the final pieces of Sprint 11. Two new chapters, the first chapters in the Ultimate Bundle! I also hosted the first …
In my last post, I talked about using Angular Elements in SharePoint Framework projects. That post showed how to do this using a single SharePoint Framework Project. In this post, I show you a much better option that uses two projects.
In my last post, I talked about using Angular Elements in SharePoint Framework projects. When doing this, you have two options on how you will implement this and in this post, I will talk about doing it in one big project that includes everything. In tomorrow’s post, I’ll show you a much …
This month’s update on my Mastering the SharePoint Framework course features the transition from one sprint to the next. Sprint 10 Complete Earlier today, I published the final pieces of Sprint 10. This update included categories of updates. Many lessons were updated to address a few minor …
Around this time last year, I attended my first SharePoint Fest conference in Seattle, an event I had wanted to be involved in for quite some time. And you know what? It was worth the wait! This is one of the most professional and well-run events in the community puts on in the SharePoint space. …
The ngOfficeUIFabric project, something I kicked off and managed for a few years, has lived it’s usefulness. In this post, learn why I’m retiring the project.
I thought this would be a good time to do a deeper comparison between the three most popular options that the SPFx generator supports: NPM, Yarn & PNPM.
This post has been cross-posted to the Voitanos blog here: SharePoint Framework Generator Updated to v1.5.0: Inspecting the Changes . Yesterday Microsoft released a new version of the SharePoint Framework (SPFx) generator to version 1.5. I took some time picking apart the update and in this post, I …
Over the last month of May, we’ve seen quite a few announcements from Microsoft with respect to what’s new and coming related to the SharePoint Framework (SPFx). This news has come out in part at the Microsoft Build 2018 conference in Seattle, WA and the SharePoint Conference North …
Microsoft introduced a new extensibility and customization development model for SharePoint in 2016. The SharePoint Framework brings client-side development to SharePoint as a first class option for developers. By now you have likely heard what Microsoft wants you to think about the SharePoint …