Episode 105 with SharePoint Dev Kitchen winners Jeff Nowland and Gerald de Run—Office 365 Developer Podcast

In episode 104 of the Office 365 Developer Podcast, Andrew Coates talks with SharePoint Product Manager Mike Ammerlaan about the Developer Preview of the new SharePoint Framework.
Weekly updates
Excel as a Calculation Service–Part 2 by Richard Custance
Blog
Code
The SharePoint Framework (SPFx) Is Here!  by Marc Anderson
Creating a new SharePoint framework project using NodeJS  by Tony Phillips
SharePoint Framework Weather Web Part  by Waldek Mastykarz
Show notes
SharePoint Framework Developer Preview Release
SharePoint Framework Docs on Github
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About Mike Ammerlaan 
Mike has worked at Microsoft for 17 years, working on products like SharePoint, Excel, Yammer, Bing Maps and Combat Flight Simulator. He worked on the SharePoint 2007, 2010 and 2013 developer platforms, including capabilities like .net APIs, features, web parts and add-ins. On Bing Maps, Mike worked to ship the Universal Windows map control that is a part of Windows 10.  Mike is now back on the SharePoint Developer Ecosystem team and looking forward to helping developers build fantastic things inside of SharePoint. Mike was born in New Jersey, but raised in Arizona.  In his spare time, Mike loves to code, build random things (scenery add-ins for Flight Simulator!), and play Minecraft with his two children.
About the hosts
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 a frequent speaker at worldwide conferences, trainings and events. Richard is highly active in the Office 365 community, popular blogger at aka.ms/richdizz and can be found on Twitter at @richdizz. Richard is born, raised and based in Dallas, TX, but works on a worldwide team based in Redmond. Richard is an avid builder of things (BoT), musician and lightning-fast runner.
 
A Civil Engineer by training and a software developer by profession, Andrew Coates has been a Developer Evangelist at Microsoft since early 2004, teaching, learning and sharing coding techniques. During that time, he’s focused on .Net development on the desktop, in the cloud, on the web, on mobile devices and most recently for Office. Andrew has a number of apps in various stores and generally has far too much fun doing his job to honestly be able to call it work. Andrew lives in Sydney, Australia with his wife and two almost-grown-up children and is a cricket umpire in his spare time. Andrew sometimes blogs at aka.ms/coatsy and you can find him on Twitter at @coatsy

In episode 102 of the Office 365 Developer Podcast, Richard diZerega and Andrew Coates talk with Jeremy Thake about his new role at Microsoft, Azure App Service and Azure Functions.
Weekly updates
Office Dev Show – Episode 40 – App-Only Permissions and the Microsoft Graph  by Richard diZerega
General Availability of Excel APIs by the Excel Team
Powering your Apps with the new Excel REST APIs by Yu Liu
Show notes
Sandbox Solution Posts
Removing Code-based Sandbox Solutions from SharePoint Online  by the SharePoint Team
Generate List of Sandbox Solutions from Microsoft PnP  by Marc Anderson
Sandbox Solutions  by Marc Anderson
Sandbox Solutions by Chris O’Brien
Sandbox Solutions  by Paul Schaeflein
Other Posts
Azure Functions with the Microsoft Graph  by Jeremy Thake
Azure Solutions
Azure App Service
Azure Functions
Try App Service
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About Jeremy Thake
Jeremy is a technical product manager at Microsoft responsible for Azure App Service and Azure Functions. 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.
 
About the hosts
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 a frequent speaker at worldwide conferences, trainings and events. Richard is highly active in the Office 365 community, popular blogger at aka.ms/richdizz and can be found on Twitter at @richdizz. Richard is born, raised and based in Dallas, TX, but works on a worldwide team based in Redmond. Richard is an avid builder of things (BoT), musician and lightning-fast runner.
A Civil Engineer by training and a software developer by profession, Andrew Coates has been a Developer Evangelist at Microsoft since early 2004, teaching, learning and sharing coding techniques. During that time, he’s focused on .Net development on the desktop, in the cloud, on the web, on mobile devices and most recently for Office. Andrew has a number of apps in various stores and generally has far too much fun doing his job to honestly be able to call it work. Andrew lives in Sydney, Australia with his wife and two almost-grown-up children.