Episode 012 with Alex Randall on SharePoint workflow

In episode 12, Jeremy Thake chats to Alex Randall about SharePoint workflow in Visual Studio and some of his open source projects.

Weekly updates

• Announcing general availability of Mobile Services .NET support on Microsoft Azure blog
• JSON Light support in REST SharePoint API released on Office Blogs
• Developing and Deploying Multiple SharePoint 2013 Apps to a Single Azure Web Site by Steve Peschka
• Office 365 API My Files CRUD Sample Code by Chaks
• SharePoint 2013: Using the App Only policy and App Principals instead of username and password combos by Wictor Wilen

Show notes

• Alex’s Office 365 Workflow Reusable Components and Examples on GitHub.com
• Extend business processes with Workflow Manager on Channel 9
• SharePoint 2013 workflow fundamentals on MSDN.com
• Fabian Williams blog
• Vesa Juvonen blog

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About Alex

Alex Randall is a SharePoint senior consultant in Microsoft Consulting Services (MCS). He advises and helps customers migrate to and customize Office 365/SharePoint Online. He has contributed code to Office 365 Development Patterns and Practices and spoken at SharePoint Conference 2014 about SharePoint workflow. Recently, he spoke at an internal Microsoft training event where he demonstrated advanced workflow scenarios in Office 365—for both SharePoint apps and Office apps. Alex has been in software development and IT fields for over 16 years. Before he caught the SharePoint bug in 2003, Alex gained many years of experience in web technologies, .NET and SQL Server custom application development. Alex holds a B.S. in Computer Science and resides near Washington, DC with his wife and son.

You can find Alex blogging at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/alex_randall/ and tweeting at @alex_randall.

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 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.