Episode 057 with Jim Epes on the App Awards—Office 365 Developer Podcast

In this episode, Jeremy Thake and Richard DiZerega talk to Jim Epes on the App Awards from the Worldwide Partner Conference.

Weekly updates

• Building Apps for Windows 10 with Visual Studio 2015
• Office Mobile apps for Windows 10 hit general availability
• Skype Group calls free
• Snack videos
• Souping up Office 365 by Andrew Connell
• Creating our first SharePoint 2013 Hosted App—Image Slider by Michael Koger
• Web Add-ins for (Word) VBA developers—Introduction by Cindy Meister
• Web Add-ins: Analyzing the “Hello World” JavaScript by Cindy Meister
• Office Web Add-ins: Developer IDE by Cindy Meister
• AAD Apps versus Yammer Apps to consume Yammer APIs by Stephan Eysken
• SharePointOnlineCredentials versus Azure Active Directory Apps versus ACS Apps by Stephan Eysken
• Creating Office add-ins – using ADAL JS and the Office 365 Unified API by Matthias Einig
• Office 365 OneNote API in Web Application by Garima Agrawal

Show notes

• App Awards Winners 2015
• App Awards Blog announcement
• Better With Office

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About Jim Epes

Office marketer with nine years’ experience at Microsoft, including several with the Windows Hardware team and five with Office Product Planning and Marketing, focused on Office 365 and the developer ecosystem. Jim oversees the app developer Go To Market, Office Store and various onboarding programs, including the Office Developer NDA Preview Program, Cloud Storage Program and liaison to the developer evangelism (DX) team. He has an MBA from the University of Washington, masters’ training at UC Berkeley and a bachelor’s from Duke.

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 was born, raised and based in Dallas, TX, 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.