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In this episode, Jeremy Thake chats with Vesa Juvonen and Steve Walker about the Office 365 Developer Patterns & Practices initiative, which is the re-launched Office App Model Samples project that went live on Monday, July 28. They talk about their roles on the Office 365 CAT team and why the Patterns & Practices initiative came about.
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Office 365 Developer Patterns & Practices on GitHub
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About Vesa
Vesa ”Vesku” Juvonen works as a principal consultant at Microsoft, focusing on SharePoint technologies. He has been involved in numerous global SharePoint deployments, working as lead architect for infrastructure, solutions, and customizations.
Vesa has been responsible for the creation of global readiness material globally together with the SharePoint product group for field readiness, targeting the SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint 2013 versions. Vesa also worked as one of the instructors and content owners in the Microsoft Certified Solution Master (MCSM) for SharePoint certification program and achieved his own Master Certification for SharePoint 2007 in Fall 2008, followed by more recent master certifications to newer versions. You can read Vesa’s blog here and follow him on twitter on @vesajuvonen.
About Steve
Steve Walker is a senior program manager on the Office 365 Customer Adoption team, focusing on developer extensibility and application development scenarios across the Office suite of servers and clients. You can follow Steve on Twitter on @sharepointing.
About the host
Jeremy is a newly appointed technical product manager at Microsoft responsible for the Visual Studio Developer story for Office 365 development.
Previously he worked at AvePoint Inc, a large ISV as the chief architect shipping two apps to the Office Store. He has been heavily involved in the SharePoint community since 2006 and was awarded the SharePoint MVP award four years in a row before retiring the title to move to Microsoft. You can find Jeremy blogging at http://www.jeremythake.com and tweeting at @jthake.
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In episode 8, Jeremy Thake chats to Brian Jones, Group Program Manager for the Office 365 Developer Platform. As an Office 365 Developer you would have most recently seen Brian speak at the SharePoint Conference 2014 alongside his lead Rob Lefferts, Director of PM, about the future of Office 365 development.
In this show, Brian talks about his career at Microsoft and the journey he’s had in Office evolving the development experience with his team. This includes talking about the Open XML SDK, App Model and Office 365 APIs. He shares some great stories of the old world of three year release cycles compared to the new monthly release cycle including some pretty interesting ship party stories!
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About Brian
Brian Jones is the Group Program Manager of the Office Developer Platform team which builds the extensibility model for Office and SharePoint. Brian has spent the past 14 years working on various pieces of the Office and SharePoint products with a primary focus on how developers can integrate and extend the platform. His initial focus was on extensibility with Word and then drove the development and standardization of the Office Open XML file formats. Since then, Brian has led the team that focuses on the cross product development model
About the host
Jeremy is a newly appointed technical product manager at Microsoft responsible for the Visual Studio Developer story for Office 365 development.
Previously he worked at AvePoint Inc, a large ISV as the chief architect shipping two apps to the Office Store. He has been heavily involved in the SharePoint community since 2006 and was awarded the SharePoint MVP award four years in a row before retiring the title to move to Microsoft. You can find Jeremy blogging at http://www.jeremythake.com and tweeting at @jthak
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In Redmond at the end of June, Jeremy Thake got to catch up with Scot Hillier after they recorded some new Office 365 Developer training that will be published on Microsoft Virtual Academy. They chatted about development and Scot talked about single page apps, focusing on AngularJS and other frameworks like Bootstrap UI, Knockout, and jQuery.
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About Scot
Scot Hillier is an independent consultant and Microsoft SharePoint Most Valuable Professional focused on creating solutions for Information Workers with SharePoint, Office, and related .NET technologies. A frequent speaker at TechEd and SharePoint Connections, he is also the author many books on Microsoft technologies, including 5 for SharePoint 2010. Scot splits his time between consulting on SharePoint projects and training for Critical Path Training. Scot is a former U. S. Navy submarine officer and graduate of the Virginia Military Institute. Scot can be reached at [email protected].
About the host
Jeremy is a newly appointed technical product manager at Microsoft responsible for the Visual Studio Developer story for Office 365 development. Peviously he worked at AvePoint Inc, a large ISV as the chief architect shipping two apps to the Office Store. He has been heavily involved in the SharePoint community since 2006 and was awarded the SharePoint MVP award four years in a row before retiring the title to move to Microsoft. You can find Jeremy blogging at http://www.jeremythake.com and tweeting at @jthake
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At TechEd North America 2014 in June 2014 located in Austin, Texas, Jeremy Thake managed to get some time to sit down with Thorsten Hans to talk about the Office 365 APIs and JavaScript development with ShareCoffee. ShareCoffee is an open source JavaScript framework written using CoffeeScript that accelerates the development process when using SharePoint CSOM APIs. Thorsten has been blogging about these topics for a while now and has been prolific in sharing frameworks and open source libraries via github.com like ShareCoffee.
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About Thorsten
Thorsten currently works together with four fellow SharePoint MVP’s for Experts Inside (http://www.expertsinside.com). They’re a typical Startup in the age of Web2.0 with distributed offices and no on-premises systems, everything they need comes from the cloud (Office 365 and Windows Azure). Thorsten is a passionate developer and most time of the week he’s building Apps and Solutions for SharePoint or SharePoint Online. Catch him on twitter at @thorstenhans and on his blog at http://dotnet-rocks.com/ .
About the host
Jeremy is a newly appointed Technical Product Manager at Microsoft responsible for the Visual Studio Developer story for Office 365 development. Previously he worked at AvePoint Inc, a large ISV as the Chief Architect shipping two Apps to the Office Store. He has been heavily involved in the SharePoint community since 2006 and was awarded the SharePoint MVP award 4 years in a row before retiring the title to move to Microsoft. You can find Jeremy blogging at http://www.jeremythake.com and tweeting at @jthake.
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At TechEd North America 2014 in June in Houston, Texas, Jeremy Thake managed to get some time to sit down with Corey Roth to talk about topics near and dear to Corey’s heart around SharePoint development. Corey is well known for his blog focusing on topics related to SharePoint Search, Business Connectivity Services (BCS), and SharePoint App Model development. Corey talks about how he learned Search and BCS development, as well as how things are going with the Office Store.
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- SharePoint search API documentation
- SharePoint search results rendering
- Business Connectivity Services
- Client-side rendering
- Office Store
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About Corey
Corey Roth is an applications architect at Hitachi Consulting, specializing in SharePoint solutions in the oil and gas industry. Corey is a four-time recipient of the Microsoft MVP award in SharePoint Server. He has always focused on rapid adoption of new Microsoft technologies, including SharePoint 2013, Office 365, and Visual Studio 2013. When it comes to SharePoint, he specializes in Enterprise Content Management (ECM), Enterprise Search, and apps. As an active member of the SharePoint community, he often speaks at user groups and conferences. Corey is a member of the .NET Mafia (www.dotnetmafia.com), where he blogs about the latest technology and SharePoint. He is also a member of the board for the Houston SharePoint Users Group. You can find Corey tweeting at @CoreyRoth.
About the host
Jeremy is a newly appointed technical product manager at Microsoft responsible for the Visual Studio Developer story for Office 365 development. Previously he worked at AvePoint Inc, a large ISV, as the chief architect shipping two apps to the Office Store. He has been heavily involved in the SharePoint community since 2006 and was awarded the SharePoint MVP award four years in a row before retiring the title to move to Microsoft. You can find Jeremy blogging at http://www.jeremythake.com and tweeting at @jthake.
