The cloud isn’t the problem–Part 2: When complex technology meets process…
Hi all Welcome to my second post that delves into the irrational world of cloud computing. In the first post, I described my first foray into the world of web hosting, which started way back in 2000....
View ArticleThe cloud is not the problem-Part 4: Industry shakeout and playing with the...
Hi all Welcome to the fourth post about the adaptive change that cloud computing is going to have on practitioners, paradigms and organisations. The previous two posts took a look at some of the...
View ArticleThe cloud isn’t the problem–Part 6: The pros and cons of patriotism
Hi all and welcome to my 6th post on the weird and wonderful world of cloud computing. The recurring theme in this series has been to point out that the technological aspects of cloud computing have...
View ArticleSo what is this newfangled apps model anyway and why do I care? (part 1)
Hiya I’ve been meaning to write about the topic of the apps model of SharePoint 2013 for a while now, because it is a topic I am both fascinated and slightly repulsed by. While lots of really...
View ArticleSo what is this newfangled apps model anyway and why do I care? (part 2)
Hiya This is the second post in some articles aimed at demystifying the SharePoint “apps” model for the strategic or business focused user. In case you are not aware, Microsoft have gotten a serious...
View ArticleSo what is this newfangled apps model anyway and why do I care? (part 3)
This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series Apps ModelSend to KindleHiya This is the third post in some articles aimed helping strategic or business focused users understand the SharePoint 2013 and...
View ArticleA Clever-workaround for Saving Photos to SharePoint from PowerApps
At the time of writing, a common request for PowerApps is to be able to able to upload photos to SharePoint. It makes perfect sense, especially now that its really easy to make a PowerApp that is bound...
View ArticleA Filename Generation Example for PowerApps with Flow
Hiya A client recently asked to make a PowerApps proof of concept audit app for safety inspections. The gist was that a user would enter an audit number into the App, take a bunch of photos and make...
View ArticleHow’s the weather? Using a public API with PowerApps (part 2)
Introduction Hi again This is the second half to a post that will use the OpenWeatherMap API in PowerApps. The business scenario is around performing inspections. In the first post I gave the example...
View ArticlePowerApps, Flow and Managed Metadata fields–part 4
Hi and welcome to the final post in this series of articles that examined how we can work around an unsupported function in PowerApps and Flow. Along the journey we have learnt about app principals,...
View ArticleHow to make a PowerApps activity feed via SharePoint search–Part 3
Background Hi and welcome to the third article that describes how to make a PowerApps-based activity feed based on SharePoint search results. If Google’s search algorithm has landed you here for the...
View ArticleThree ways to convert HTML to PDF using Microsoft Flow
The ability to generate PDF’s as part of a business process is a common one – mainly driven by compliance. A common way to do this is to create a HTML file and then convert that to PDF. <TLDR>Go...
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