For developing native web languages I use Sublime Text 2 (http://www.sublimetext.com/). As many other editors Sublime Text offers a great plugin system, which allows you as a developer to add various functionality by installing additional packages to your Sublime Text instance. Within this post I’ll introduce some plugins I’m using in order to increase my … Read More →
You love CoffeeScript and you’ve to maintain Brownfield JS Applications? Checkout Js2coffee! Js2coffee translates your JS Code into nice, readable and valid CoffeeScript. In addition to the Js2coffee website (js2coffee.org), there is also an NPM package available. Install it by using npm install js2coffee or globally by using sudo npm install js2coffee –g You … Read More →
When you’re building Apps for SharePoint 2013 you can create Pages, Client Parts or CustomActions. For CustomActions there are two different targets, either the Ribbon or the Edit Control Block (ECB) in both cases it’s not allowed to inject JavaScript. If SharePoint would allow adding JS in these situations the client script would run in … Read More →
Windows Azure’s IaaS components have just reached GA (General Availability) status. There is also a SharePoint Template existing which can be used to host SharePoint 2013 Farms on Windows Azure IaaS. Microsoft is also providing a whitepaper describing how to scale and create a SharePoint Farm on Windows Azure using all the great features offered … Read More →
Since global availability of SharePoint 2013, Windows Azure is getting more and more important for SharePoint and SharePoint Online. As a developer you can create Apps for SharePoint using Windows Azure as platform for your custom website, which will interact with your SharePoint instance. Therefor almost every SharePoint dev should be familiar with Windows Azure … Read More →
Last weekend we did our fourth ShareCamp at Microsoft’s german headquarter in Munich (Unterschleißheim). The ShareCamp is not a typical conference, it’s a BarCamp, BarCamps typically have no schedule until the conference starts. Every attendee is able to submit sessions, discussions or HOL Workshops. Therefor it’s great for people who aren’t speaking at huge, popular … Read More →
Today I ran into an issue with SPWebConfigModification. SPWebConfigModification can be used to make changes to SharePoint’s web.config. The advantage of using SPWebConfigModification in opposite of applying these changes manually is, that changes are applied to each WFE in the farm. Internally SharePoint is holding a collection of modifications that should be applied to the … Read More →
Today I’ve been awarded as a SharePoint MVP for the third time in a row. I’d like to say thank you to all of my blog readers, workshop and session attendees. Without the community it wouldn’t be possible to receive such an award. Independent from the MVP award, software development is my passion, I love … Read More →
While visiting the Global MVP Summit 2013 in Redmond, I decided to buy a Surface Pro, because they don’t sell it in Germany at this time. There were more reasons why I bought the Surface Pro in opposite to other devices such as Lenovo’s Yoga – which is also really awesome – or perhaps a … Read More →
There are several discussions on SharePoint’s social strategy going on at the moment. I had some great discussions with my MVP mate Adis during Summit last week. Since #SPC12 almost every SharePoint addicted developer, it-pro, power user has reviewed Yammer. If you don’t know what Yammer is, here a short introduction. Yammer is an enterprise … Read More →
