Episode 049 with Eric Shupps on building a dev community

In this episode, Jeremy Thake and Richard DiZerega talk to Eric Shupps, in the second part of a call, to discuss the community work and user group that he helps run in Texas.

Weekly updates

• Microsoft acquires Wunderlist
• Office 365 Add-in rename cheat sheet
• Office 365 Developer Flipboard magazine
• Office 365 Developer slack channel
• Getting started with SharePoint Hosted Apps
• Objective C and Swift iOS code sample
• Get handle on your Site closure and Policies
• Refactor Office add-ins
• Sesssion values are lost in SharePoint Provider Hosted Add-ins
• PnP June community call
• PnP Usage Survey for May
• Nintex Wins WPC “Office and SharePoint Application Development” award

Show notes

• Dallas Fort Worth User Group

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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.