Episode 006 with Thorsten Hans

At TechEd North America 2014 in June 2014 located in Austin, Texas, Jeremy Thake managed to get some time to sit down with Thorsten Hans to talk about the Office 365 APIs and JavaScript development with ShareCoffee. ShareCoffee is an open source JavaScript framework written using CoffeeScript that accelerates the development process when using SharePoint CSOM APIs. Thorsten has been blogging about these topics for a while now and has been prolific in sharing frameworks and open source libraries via github.com like ShareCoffee.

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• Powershell to report memory leaks and assembly info on SharePoint 2013/2010 custom solutions

Show notes

• Getting Started with the Office 365 APIs
• Office 365 APIs Tools Preview
• Cordova and Office 365 APIs client libraries
• ShareCoffee on github and his SPC14 session on it
• CoffeeScript and TypeScript
• TechEd NA 2014 session: SharePoint Power Hour and Code Samples
• JavaScript: The Good Parts book
• PluralSight SharePoint courses
• Office Store: MeetSweet! App
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About Thorsten

Thorsten currently works together with four fellow SharePoint MVP’s for Experts Inside (http://www.expertsinside.com). They’re a typical Startup in the age of Web2.0 with distributed offices and no on-premises systems, everything they need comes from the cloud (Office 365 and Windows Azure). Thorsten is a passionate developer and most time of the week he’s building Apps and Solutions for SharePoint or SharePoint Online. Catch him on twitter at @thorstenhans and on his blog at http://dotnet-rocks.com/ .

About the host

Jeremy is a newly appointed 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 4 years in a row before retiring the title to move to Microsoft. You can find Jeremy blogging at http://www.jeremythake.com and tweeting at @jthake.