Episode 056 on building products on top of SharePoint Online with Doug Ware—Office 365 Developer Podcast

In this episode, Jeremy Thake and Richard DiZerega talk to Pierre-Élie Fauche about how the Sunrise team swapped out their old approach to fetch calendar information locally from the phones to use the Office 365 APIs instead.
 
Weekly updates
Office Dev Show
Office 365 YouTube Channel
Debugging errors in SharePoint add-in development
Automated testing of a Provider Hosted App with PowerShell
Apply grid system to SharePoint using SUSY
Office 365 Profile Angular sample
JavaScript for VBA Developers—a short history
Building a SharePoint Online chat room with SignalR and Azure
Visual Studio 2015 ship event
“Caption this photo” by Tobias Zimmergren
Show notes
https://calendar.sunrise.am/
Outlook Notifications REST API reference (preview)
Office 365 is now available in Sunrise!
Charles Proxy
Got questions or comments about the show? Join the O365 Dev Podcast on the Office 365 Technical Network.
The podcast RSS has been submitted to all the stores and marketplaces but takes time, please add directly with the RSS http://feeds.feedburner.com/Office365DeveloperPodcast.
About Pierre-Élie Fauche
Pierre-Élie is the lead backend engineer at Sunrise Calendar. Sunrise, acquired by Microsoft in February of  2015, develops calendar apps for iOS, Android and the web with a strong emphasis on design and user experience. It’s rather uncommon take on handling calendaring operations server-side enabled Sunrise to offer innovative features on three platforms at once and a wide range of services often ignored by other calendar apps.
About the hosts
Jeremy is a 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 www.jeremythake.com and tweeting at @jthake.
 
Richard is a software engineer in Microsoft’s Developer Experience (DX) group, where he helps developers and software vendors maximize their use of Microsoft cloud services in Office 365 and Azure. Richard has spent a good portion of the last decade architecting Office-centric solutions, many that span Microsoft’s diverse technology portfolio. He is a passionate technology evangelist and frequent speaker are worldwide conferences, trainings and events. Richard is highly active in the Office 365 community, popular blogger at www.richdizz.com, and can be found on twitter at @richdizz. Richard is based, born and raised in Dallas, TX but works on a worldwide team based in Redmond. In his spare time, Richard is an avid builder of things (BoT), musician and lightning fast runner.

In this episode, Jeremy Thake and Richard DiZerega talk to a panel of SharePoint MVPs at SPTechCon Dev Days including Marc Anderson, Andrew Connell, Scot Hillier, Paul Schaeflein and Eric Shupps.
 
Weekly updates
Worldwide Partner Conference 2015
Gigjam: unleashing the human process
Training updates
Office 365 APIs for Mail
Office 365 APIs for Calendar
File Handler HOL
Groups API HOL
Unified API HOL
Video API HOL
PnP guidance added dev.office.com pages
Office 2016 for Mac is generally available
Announcing new activity logging and reporting capabilities for Office 365
Debugging websites with Visual Studio code
SharePoint apps add-ins minify
Adding Custom Tiles to the Office 365 App Launcher
Inconvenient Internet Explorer security zones and Azure AD web applications
Header/Footer with Breadcrumb and Global Ribbon SPO Office 365 Dev
Got questions or comments about the show? Join the O365 Dev Podcast on the Office 365 Technical Network.
The podcast RSS has been submitted to all the stores and marketplaces but takes time, please add directly with the RSS http://feeds.feedburner.com/Office365DeveloperPodcast.
About Marc Anderson
Marc is the co-Founder and president of Sympraxis Consulting LLC, located in the Boston suburb of Newton, MA, USA.  Sympraxis focuses on enabling collaboration throughout the enterprise using the SharePoint application platform.
Marc has over 30 years of experience in technology professional services and software development. Over a wide-ranging career in consulting as well as line manager positions, Marc has proven himself as a problem solver and leader who can solve difficult technology problems for organizations across a wide variety of industries and organization sizes. Check out his blog at sympmarc.com and follow him on @sympmarc.
About Scot Hillier
 
Scot Hillier is an independent consultant and Microsoft SharePoint MVP 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 five 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 Andrew Connell
Andrew is an entrepreneur and developer with an emphasis in Microsoft SharePoint and content management systems (CMS). In April of 2005 he was recognized by Microsoft for his community contributions by being awarded Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for Microsoft Content Management Server and has received the award annually for SharePoint Server every year since. Most of his work these days involves working with the Microsoft SharePoint, Office 365 and web development technologies.
Read more at about  Andrew Connell  and follow him on @andrewconnell.
About Paul Schaeflein
Paul Schaeflein has worked with Microsoft’s SharePoint technologies since it was called the Digital Dashboard. This work encompasses substantial custom development, implementations and training. Also, Paul was granted the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award for his community work – primarily presentations at national conferences, regional events and user groups. Check out Paul’s blog www.schaeflein.net/blog and follow him on @paulschaeflein.
About Eric Shupps
Eric Shupps is the founder and president of BinaryWave, a leading provider of administration and productivity solutions for Microsoft SharePoint. Eric has worked with SharePoint Products and Technologies since 2001 as a consultant, administrator, architect, developer and trainer. He is an advisory committee member of the Dallas/Ft. Worth SharePoint Community group and a participating member of user groups throughout the United Kingdom. Eric has authored numerous articles on SharePoint, speaks at user group meetings and conferences around the world, and publishes a popular SharePoint blog at www.sharepointcowboy.com.
 
About the hosts
Jeremy is a 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 www.jeremythake.com and tweeting at @jthake.
 
Richard is a software engineer in Microsoft’s Developer Experience (DX) group, where he helps developers and software vendors maximize their use of Microsoft cloud services in Office 365 and Azure. Richard has spent a good portion of the last decade architecting Office-centric solutions, many that span Microsoft’s diverse technology portfolio. He is a passionate technology evangelist and frequent speaker are worldwide conferences, trainings and events. Richard is highly active in the Office 365 community, popular blogger at www.richdizz.com, and can be found on twitter at @richdizz. Richard is based, born and raised in Dallas, Texas, but works on a worldwide team based in Redmond. In his spare time, Richard is an avid builder of things (BoT), musician, and lightning fast runner.

In this episode, Jeremy Thake and Richard DiZerega talk to Bob German about micro services.
 
Weekly updates
Reddit
Save the date – Visual Studio 2015 RTM on July 20th
An early look at Cortana integration with Office 365
Getting started with adaljs and Office 365 APIs
Troubleshooting SharePoint Add-ins configuration on-premises
SharePoint client-side devs be heard
Office 365 Video Portal API deep dive
Microsoft Garage – Tossup app
Show notes
SharePoint as a Service http://bob1german.com/2015/07/02/sharepoint-as-a-service/
Microservices http://martinfowler.com/articles/microservices.html
Modern Apps and Microservices http://theundocumentedapi.com/2015/01/05/modern-apps-and-microservices/
Get Started with the Office 365 APIs https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/office365/howto/getting-started-Office-365-APIs
API Management in Microsoft Azure http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/api-management/
Got questions or comments about the show? Join the O365 Dev Podcast on the Office 365 Technical Network.
The podcast RSS has been submitted to all the stores and marketplaces but takes time, please add directly with the RSS http://feeds.feedburner.com/Office365DeveloperPodcast.
About Bob German
 
Bob German is principal architect at BlueMetal Architects, where he leads SharePoint development and deployment engagements for enterprise customers. Bob has been developing on the SharePoint platform since it was called “Site Server,” and is a co-author of SharePoint 2010 Development with Silverlight for Addison-Wesley. Prior to joining BlueMetal, Bob was an architect at the Microsoft Technology Center in Boston. He also worked for Microsoft Consulting Services building and performance tuning websites and other networking solutions.           You can follow Bob on Twitter @Bob1German or on his blog at http://bob1german.com/.
About the hosts
Jeremy is a 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 www.jeremythake.com and tweeting at @jthake.
 
Richard is a software engineer in Microsoft’s Developer Experience (DX) group, where he helps developers and software vendors maximize their use of Microsoft cloud services in Office 365 and Azure. Richard has spent a good portion of the last decade architecting Office-centric solutions, many that span Microsoft’s diverse technology portfolio. He is a passionate technology evangelist and frequent speaker are worldwide conferences, trainings and events. Richard is highly active in the Office 365 community, popular blogger at www.richdizz.com, and can be found on twitter at @richdizz. Richard is based, born and raised in Dallas, Texas, but works on a worldwide team based in Redmond. In his spare time, Richard is an avid builder of things (BoT), musician, and lightning fast runner.

In this episode, Jeremy Thake and Richard DiZerega talk to Mark Rackley about client side development on SharePoint.
Weekly updates
Office 365 users gain one-click access to third-party apps
Azure Logic Apps
Implementing AD integration with Office 365 using a sub-domain (for dev/test) by Chris O’Brien
Hooking SharePoint APIs with Android by Kris Wagner
Inconvenient ADAL JS Angular with simultaneous CORS requests by Waldek Mastykarz
Using The Force With Office 365 by Todd Baginski
Office for Android phone is here!
SPTechCon Developer Days Follow Up by Marc Anderson
Got questions or comments about the show? Join the O365 Dev Podcast on the Office 365 Technical Network.
The podcast RSS has been submitted to all the stores and marketplaces but takes time, please add directly with the RSS http://feeds.feedburner.com/Office365DeveloperPodcast.
About Mark Rackley
Mark is Partner and CTO at PAIT Group with more than 20 years of experience designing and developing software solutions. Mark’s daily responsibilities include forging the direction of solution architecture and development projects for clients while providing the best solutions for clients’ unique problems. As a globally recognized SharePoint geek, Mark is an active blogger, presenter, author (and bacon aficionado) who is eager to lend his real-world knowledge of SharePoint to all who need it. In addition to speaking at various SharePoint conferences, Mark is the organizer of SharePointalooza in Branson, Missouri and can be found speaking at as many Saturday events as his professional and family life will allow. Mark engages his audiences with humor, real-world stories from the trenches, and practical solutions. You can follow him on www.sharepointhillbilly.com
 
About the hosts
Jeremy is a 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 www.jeremythake.com and tweeting at @jthake.
 
Richard is a software engineer in Microsoft’s Developer Experience (DX) group, where he helps developers and software vendors maximize their use of Microsoft cloud services in Office 365 and Azure. Richard has spent a good portion of the last decade architecting Office-centric solutions, many that span Microsoft’s diverse technology portfolio. He is a passionate technology evangelist and frequent speaker are worldwide conferences, trainings and events. Richard is highly active in the Office 365 community, popular blogger at www.richdizz.com, and can be found on twitter at @richdizz. Richard is based, born and raised in Dallas, Texas, but works on a worldwide team based in Redmond. In his spare time, Richard is an avid builder of things (BoT), musician, and lightning fast runner.