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Back in June, I had the opportunity to attend a 2-day Web Camp here in Redmond.  I was blown away.  On Day 1, I learned a ton about HTML5/CSS/JavaScript.  The instructors (maybe I should say “camp counselors”?), were true experts in each...

I’ve gotten a lot of questions about building workflows that run in the Sandbox with SharePoint Online .  So many in fact, that I wanted to write an article on the subject for MSDN Magazine .  Well, the article was just published in the July...

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Office 365 was released to General Availability today with Steve Ballmer hosting the worldwide launch event in New York City . With this release, Office 365 (including SharePoint Online, Exchange Online, Lync Online and Office 2010 Professional Plus)...

A common misconception about SharePoint Online is that you can’t develop workflows in the Sandbox.  In my Developing Powerful Workflows in the Cloud with Microsoft SharePoint Online session, I show how you can create workflows that run in the sandbox...

In my Developing Collaboration Solutions in the Cloud with Microsoft SharePoint Online session at TechEd, my goal was to provide SharePoint 2010 developers some perspective on developing for SharePoint Online in Office 365 .  What’s different? ...

Donovan Follette , Girish Raja , Augusto Valdez and I delivered the demos in Eron Kelly’s foundation session at TechEd, Collaboration in the Cloud with SharePoint: A New World of Productivity .  The session turned out great and the feedback has been...

George Durzi and Michael Greenlee just published Professional Unified Communications Development with Microsoft Lync Server 2010 on Wrox.  George and I worked on the UC “14” early adopter program together since the early alpha bits leading up to...

The Exchange Online team has just published some really great Technical Articles on Exchange Online development .  Check them out. -Mayo

I had the pleasure of doing a couple of demos in Eron Kelly’s Microsoft Office 365: The Future of Productivity session at TechEd.  While I’m waiting to post the links to the session slides and recording, here is a great interview of Eron by Adam...

Adam Carter did a great session called “ Office 365 Doesn’t Mean You’re Fired” at Dev Connections Orlando.  It was so great, it got written up in InfoWorld .  If you’re looking to adopt Office 365, this is an interesting read. -Mayo

If you do SharePoint or SharePoint Online development in a VM, at some point you’ll be in a situation where the only network available is wireless.  I ran into that here at TechEd in my hotel while prepping for my sessions. Luckily Donovan Follette...

Donovan Follette and I recently recorded a new installment of the SharePoint Sideshow called Join the Office 365 Beta and Start Developing for SharePoint Online to talk about the public beta of Office 365 , SharePoint Online development and the new Office...

Paul Stubbs just sent me mail about the new SharePoint 2010 and Silverlight Training Course on MSDN.  There are some really great topics with labs covered in this training course! -Mayo

The SharePoint Online team has release the SharePoint Online for Office 365: Developer Guide to provide a comprehensive overview of the SPO platform and how developing for SPO differs from SP2010. Give it a read, it’s a great reference. -Mayo

Developing solutions for SharePoint Online requires they be built using Sandboxed Solutions .  Sandboxed solutions are developed against a scoped version of the Microsoft.SharePoint API specific to the capabilities of the sandbox. While Visual Studio...

Now that the Office 365 Training Course is available for the Office 365 beta, I’m putting together a blog post on setting of a development environment for Office 365.  A good place to start is either setting up a SharePoint VM , using the 2010 Information...

Interesting article on the economics of Office 365 on PC World and another on the marketplace in the LA Times. -Mayo

Since we announced Office 365 around the same time as PDC last year, I’ve been talking to a lot of other developers about the platform opportunities for building solutions for Office 365. In those discussions, the most common question I get is “how...

More details on the beta can be found on the Microsoft Office 365 Blog .  This is a great blog to mark if you’re working with Office 365 . -Mayo

Nice write ups on both PC World and PC Magazine . -Mayo

I’m really happy to announce that the Office 365 Beta is now publicly available!  We’ve been getting great feedback from customers using the service and developers building solutions using the platform during the private beta, so I’m really excited...

Cloud-Based Collaboration with SharePoint Online just hit MSDN Magazine in print and the web. This is the first of a series of articles that I’ll be doing on cloud based development with Office 365. I’d love to get your feedback. Post a comment or contact...

I’m speaking at the SharePoint FireStarter event in Redmond, WA on 1/27/2011.  We’re also going to be simulcasting the event if you can’t make it in person. From the registration site, here is what we’ll be covering: Overview Information workers...