Author: derek

  • 2019 Goals (in one Tweet)

    2019 Goals (in one Tweet)

    Ah, the new year. Time again to set some goals for personal and professional development. I’m going simple this year, as tweeted: Let’s break these out a bit more. Code More. One of the big changes in 2018 was taking a new job as Principal Software Engineer at FM:Systems. In this role, much more than […]

  • My new Microjobs are live

    My new Microjobs are live

    I am really excited to announce that I am joining Collab365 MicroJobs – a brand new marketplace dedicated to Microsoft professionals. I have launched 2 initial offerings.

  • Why I took a new job

    Why I took a new job

    As has been noted on my blog bio (shown below) and my LinkedIn profile, I recently started a new job.  Generally speaking, this isn’t Earth shattering news.  People start new jobs all the time.  In fact, among even the biggest tech firms, the average job tenure is just around 2 years.  For me, I was […]

  • PowerApps Set SharePoint Person field to Current User

    PowerApps Set SharePoint Person field to Current User

    A proven technique for capturing the current user to a SharePoint person field in PowerApps.

  • Requested Value ‘Text’ was not found error using SharePoint Online CSOM

    Requested Value ‘Text’ was not found error using SharePoint Online CSOM

    I’ve recently been involved in creating a SharePoint Hosted add-in for a customer, and part of that process includes creating site columns, content types, and libraries in the host-web where the add-in is deployed.  The Office Dev Patterns and Practices team has a great starting point example for this technique using the JavaScript (JSOM) api. […]