Office 365 Developer Podcast: Episode 030 on Office 365 APIs with Rob Howard

In this episode Jeremy Thake talks to Rob Howard from the Office Developer Platform team who heads up the Office 365 APIs strategy.

Weekly updates

• Office 365 Developer Patterns and Practices – January 2015 Community Call
• Build registration opens January 22nd
• Managing multiple Windows Azure website environments using Visual Studio Publishing Profiles by Brady Gaster
• Searching with the Office 365 APIs by Richard DiZerega
• Mastering Office 365 Development patterns and practices by Matthias Eining
• Moodle + Office 365: better together with new MS Open Tech open source plugins for education workflows
• Office Graph API and Cortana – Chapter 1: Introduction to the Office Graph by Olivier Carpentier
• Set your app’s name in Office Graph queries by Waldek Mastykarz
• Programmatically retrieve the list of all Delve boards by Waldek Mastykarz
• Getting all documents from a Delve board using the Office Graph by Waldek Mastykarz
• OneDriveBrowser and o365 APIs with a custom persistent store for ADAL token cache by Steve Peschka

Show notes

• Office 365 API Sandbox
• Office 365 API reference documentation
• Office 365 API on-demand training
  • Module on authentication with Azure AD
    • Office 365 API code samples on dev.office.com

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About Rob Howard

Rob Howard joined Microsoft in August of 2005 and currently works as a program manager on the Office Developer Platform team, where he works on the app models for Office clients, servers and services.  His goal is to enable developers to build collaborative productivity applications more efficiently and effectively by leveraging the capabilities of Office, SharePoint, Exchange and a variety of other Office applications and services.  In previous releases Rob worked on areas like the SharePoint app model, csom, sandboxed solutions, SharePoint solution deployment, the fab 40 and SharePoint Designer.  Rob has a passion for collaborative applications because they can enhance individual and organizational productivity by ensuring that the people and information vital to completing a task are connected and readily available in the appropriate contexts.

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.