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HTML5 and CSS3 are now a standard part of the Office and SharePoint developer’s skillset. While much of the buzz around HTML5 and CSS3 focuses on creating a responsive and satisfying end-user experience, a whole new set of JavaScript APIs was also introduced. These APIs provide powerful capabilities that either didn’t exist before, or were only available in 3rd-party libraries. In this session, we’ll focus on these new APIs and use them to solve real-world problems such as maintaining context in a SharePoint-hosted app, caching app data, and communicating between app parts.

Being a SharePoint architect can be challenging - you need to deal with everything from hardware, resources, requirements, business continuity management, a budget and of course customers. You, the architect, have to manage all this and in the end deliver a good architecture that satisfies all the needs of your customer. Along the line you have to make decisions based on experience, facts and sometimes the gut feeling. In this session we will cover some of the architectural changes in the SharePoint 2013 architecture, some of the new guidance from Microsoft and provide insight into a number of successful real-world scenarios.

My notes about the session “SharePoint 2013 hybrid end-to-end” by Sam Hassani. A Hybrid environment combining SharePoint Server 2013 and SharePoint Online can fuse together the very best elements of both systems and offer a seamless experience to end-users when implemented correctly - in addition to providing you with cost savings. Attend this session to understand the solutions SharePoint hybrid environments support. We’ll walk through the end-to-end configuration process covering infrastructure, identity management and SharePoint integration points.

My notes about the session “Introducing Codename Oslo and the Office Graph”. Come see how we reimagined search and discovery across Office with Codename Oslo, powered by the Office Graph. Oslo enables you to work like a network, by proactively surfacing the best and relevant information across Office, tailored just for you. Learn how Office Graph transforms Office, with suite wide insights and machine learning. Session by Cem Aykan and Ashok Kuppusamy.

Here are my notes about the SharePoint Conference 2014 Keynote “live” from Las Vegas. Figures Opened by Jared Spataro. 10.000 people from 80 countries are attending this years SPC. SharePoint has an incredible 500% user growth, double digit revenue growth – and growing. Office 365: $1.5 billion, 60% of Fortune 500 companies are using it. The Cloud is on fire! President Bill Clinton When I became President there were 50 sites on the internet – in total.

Sub-Keynote for Developers “What’s new for Office and SharePoint Developers” by Brian Jones and Rob Lefferts. This session will show what’s new in Office and SharePoint development and unveil new features and capabilities that demonstrate how the development model has evolved. Figures 3.4 Million SharePoint Developers 1 Billion Office Users They activly monitor social sites like StackOverflow and UserVoice to get feedback. They want more insight. Context Apps They said is several times now – context is the new thing.

This session will focus in deep detail on one top 10 business scenario and showcase how it can be enabled with apps for Office. We will review the business scenario, the architectural considerations to enable this scenario in Windows Azure and apps for Office, as well as delving into the code behind the solution. Expect to see a lot and have experts available to you to answer any of your questions and concerns.

There are many business scenarios and solutions that have been built on the SharePoint 2010 platform that are critical to customers. As companies, partners, and solution providers look to move to the SharePoint 2013 platform, these solutions should be reimagined to leverage the new cloud app model and apps for SharePoint. This session will deep dive into the key scenarios and techniques of migrating the most common customization patterns from SharePoint 2010 solutions to apps for SharePoint.

Sometimes clients come up with crazy requests “I can not go back to first page, this pagination is not good enough” – but this one was reasonable and SharePoint 2013 search is so easy customizable, lets take it as an exercise! Everything is a Display Template As the caption says, you can change almost every design aspect in SharePoint 2013 Search by changing a html file (or a .js file if you are on Foundation) – this includes the general rendering of the search results and with it the pagination.

Today it was time to update my SharePoint 2013 installation from March PU 2013 to August 2013 CU - mostly because the Search Schema changed under the hood and I wanted to try something out for the awesome Search Query Tool. Download Wow, 1.8GB patch – that is huge! Compared to the RTM version of SharePoint 2013 with 2.4GB they rewrote 75% - or the patching strategy is not that optimal.